Fall Leaves

Before winter arrives (even though it is snowing today it's still technically fall), here is a fun leaf craft to try at home...

Supplies Needed:

• Green construction paper leaf (tracing a real leaf works great)
  
• Yarn
  
• Tissue paper in fall colors
  
• glue sticks
• glitter or glitter glue (optional)
  

Steps to Making the craft:

1. Punch a hole in the top of the leaf, string the yarn through, and knot it
   
2. Child glues tissue paper to leaf so it looks like a colorful fall leaf (feel free to do both sides)
3. If desired add glitter to the leaf to for a little extra sparkle!
   

Before making the leaf craft take a walk with your child and look at all the fun fall colors. Notice how some leaves stay green longer than others. Ask your child to tell you what colors he or she sees. Collect some leaves to take back home. These can be used to trace different shaped leaves onto the construction paper and also as inspiration for ways to mix the tissue paper colors together to create a multi-colored fall leaf. Share a fall book with your child. There's a fun one you can read right here on "Booking for a Look" in the previous post!

Pictures soon to follow...

Check out a book--Online!

Have you heard of Lookybook.com? It's a great website where you can look at the entire content of children's books on your computer. It's so much fun and we wanted to share one with you. So since Fall is underway here's a fun fall book to enjoy:

Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber. Two children play in the colorful leaves they find in this rhyming text. Readers will also learn how to identify the various types of leaves that fall from the trees.

Just click on the cover below to read the full text of the book on your screen.

If you want to see the book in a larger window click on the little eyes in the upper right corner, you will be redirected to the Looky Book website.

Watch for more featured Looky Books in the future...

Celebrate Twins Day with a New Book!

One of our favorite authors for children, Andrew Clements, has written a great new story...all about twins!

Simon & Schuster

Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one seems to know a thing about his brother. Ray's not on the attendance lists, doesn't have a locker, doesn't even have a student folder. Jay almost tells the school -- almost -- but then decides that this lost information could be very...useful. And fun.
As Ray and Jay exploit a clerical oversight, they each find new views on friendship, honesty, what it means to be a twin -- and what it means to be yourself. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and true-to-life, this clever novel is classic Andrew Clements times two: twins!

More 50 Fabulous Books

Everyone knows dogs are supposed to bark.

But what do you do with a dog that just sits there?

Or worse, makes other animal sounds? Bark George

is about a dog that acts so strange he is sent to the vet

to determine what's wrong.

Where the Wild Things Are is the classic

Caldecott about a boy who has quite an imagination

and explores a place with all things imaginable.

Fifty Fabulous Books

We are now into our second week of Go for the Gold... READ! and we already have over 1,000 listeners and readers signed up in our four different reading clubs. This is definitely shaping up to be a summer of breaking records!


Two more books that are on our Fifty Fabulous Books list are sure to bring back memories for parents reading to their young ones.


Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
is about a little girl mouse that has
the most unusual name that she
absolutely adores. But when she starts
school, she becomes weary about just how special her name is.




Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham
is a classic rhyming story about
all the crazy where's and how's
one can eat green eggs and ham.

Fifty Fabulous Books to Read this Summer

Welcome back to Booking for a Look! We took a little vacation from our blog as we prepared for Summer Reading Club at Twinsburg Public Library.

This summer our special Listening Club members are reading fifty fabulous books that we selected. We will be featuring two of these books each week throughout the summer.

This week we are featuring How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen and I Stink by Jim and Kate McMullen.

How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight

If bedtime is a battle at your house, here's a book to help you and your child. Yolen's silly rhyming text pairs perfectly with Teague's funny illustrations of dinosaurs. Children will be able to relate to the behaviors of the dinosaurs in the story, and laugh at the ridiculous ways some of them react.









I Stink!

A garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores to leftover ziti with zucchini. This story will delight young readers, and is guaranteed to make you say "Ewww"!

Buzz on Books #30

As we reach the 30th Buzz on Books and the 50 posted blog, now is a perfect time to take a break from the book of the week. But for the last book, why not a book about winter, which we experienced so much of this past week. The Twelve Days of Winter by Deborah Lee Rose has the pattern of another book of hers titled The Twelve Days of Kindergarten. From twelve treats for tasting down to one bird feeder in a snowy tree, the book has very cute, detailed pictures with children having fun the whole way through. Perhaps reading this will put a smile on your face until spring arrives. Come on in to the Children's Place at the Twinsburg Public Library for this and many other books about seasons and more!