Summer Reading With Daisy: McDuff Goes To School

It's hard to believe, but it's back to school time in our house!  My last book for the summer is McDuff Goes To School by Rosemary Wells and illustrated by Susan Jeffers.  McDuff is the Westie and Marie is the Scottie.  

Before I get to the story, I just had to show you this page.  Terriers are awesome and so cute!

McDuff gets a new neighbor from France!  She even barks in French!  

So, this page is a little worrisome.  Marie got in trouble for getting on the fancy furniture.  I sleep on the couch all the time.  Now, if this was a picture of Marie getting on the counter, I get it.  I know I'm not supposed to be on the counter, but I still do it.  But the comfy couch? Yikes. Marie's parents decided she had to go to school to learn how to behave.  McDuff's parents thought he should go as well.

The pups had a lot of homework to do from their school.  They even had to take a final!

A fun part of this book is the Glossary at the end.  They show what McDuff and Marie learned in French (with the pronunciation) and then defined in English.

I hope everyone had a fun summer.  Thank you for reading with me!
oxox
Daisy

Summer Reading With Daisy: Purple, Green, and Yellow

If you have been in any store this week, you know it's time for school supply soiree!  We LOVE school supplies in this house.  They all smell so delicious to me, which is why they are locked up in the guest room. This week's story is another one by Robert Munsch.  In honor of all the new school supplies, I bring you Purple, Green, and Yellow.

Brigid begs her mom for new markers.  The same kind all her friends have.  Of course, her mom buys them for her.  When reading this book to first graders, this is the time to remind them they don't have to have everything their friends have.  The mom is concerned Brigid will draw on the walls or the floor or herself.  Brigid promises she won't.

 So, Brigid colors for awhile and decides she now needs the "super duper never come off markers till your dead and maybe even later" markers. 

Well, those markers looked better than real life colors!  They were so colorful that Brigid couldn't help herself.  She started with her thumb nail, which lead to all her fingernails, which lead to her hand, which lead to HER WHOLE BODY!!!

Uh oh... Brigid broke her promise!  Her mom called a 'doctor' who gave Brigid a pill and told her to take a bath.  When she came out, the markers had washed off, but Brigid was invisible!!!

Brigid solved her problem by coloring herself with people colors so she wasn't invisible.  Her mom said you can't go through life being a picture.  Brigid said she could, because you'd never believe what she did to her Dad!!!!!

The last page will definitely tickle your funny bone.  Every year, a first grader tries to pull a Brigid.  Even though we read this book the first week of school and talk about how you can never get away with coloring yourself!  It's as obvious as when I dig in the dirt and pretend it didn't happen!!!

Summer Reading With Daisy: Click, Clack, Peep!

This one's for Kismet!  The book I picked this week is called Click, Clack, Peep! by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin.  They wrote the story Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.  I love stories that have characters I already know in them.  I brought my friend Peep to read this week.

In the barn, all the animals heard a tap, tap, tapping.  It wasn't any of the familiar moos, oinks, baas, or clucks they were used to.

After much cracking, a BABY DUCK hatched!  It's favorite word was "peep".  It was peep-ing all day long.

You know how little bitties love to talk non-stop?  Yep, this bitty duck peep-ed well into the night...past everyone's bedtime.

Duck solved this noisy problem by taking baby duck for a ride on the tractor back and forth, back and forth until...

Baby Duck finally fell asleep.  Yay!

Peep and I hope you'll take a look at all the "Click, Clack..." books!

Summer Reading With Daisy: Pigs

This weeks, it's all about pigs.  Robert Munsch wrote and Michael Martchenko illustrated an informative book called Pigs.  

Meghan lives on a farm with pigs.  Her dad tells her pigs are smarter than you think, but Meghan ignores his sage advice. 

Meghan quickly wishes she listened to her dad's advice.  She opened the gate to the pig pen and thought the pigs would be too stupid to go through.  Joke's on her!

You're not going to believe this, but the pigs ran all the way to school and took over!

Meghan thought the pigs would follow her directions and go home.  The pigs did find a way to go back to the farm...

Meghan did learn her lesson and didn't let out any more animals.  Well, at least any more pigs.

You can't go wrong with a Robert Munsch book!!!

Summer Reading With Daisy: Duck! Rabbit!

This week I present to you a very confusing and thought provoking book called Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichenheld. Do you see the confused look on my face? Is it a duck or a rabbit?

Augh! I can't tell!! As a terrier, we all know ducks and rabbits are our special 'friends'. I should be able to tell them apart!

Hiding in the grass or wading through the the swamp? This is not helping. 

Even if you see the whole body, you still can't tell what it is...right?! Please tell me I'm not the only one who can't figure it out.

I guess I'll never know.

Summer Reading with Daisy: "I'm A Frog"

I have recovered from the 4th of July cake-a-thon and am ready to tell you all about another entertaining book!  This week, I read I'm A Frog by Mo Willems.  I'm a big fan of his because he writes the funniest books about animals (pigeons, pigs, puppies, and other animals that don't start with the letter 'p').  

Piggie tells Elephant he is a frog and ribbits all over the place.  Poor Elephant - he is so confused by his friend's amphibian-ish behavior.

Piggie finally breaks it to Elephant that his froggie-ness is all pretend.  

Piggie tries to get Elephant to be a pretend animal.  He really struggles with not being an elephant!   He eventually caves and pretends to be... (you'll have to read to find out!),

In the back of every Mo Willems book, he adds Pigeon doing something silly.

Happy Reading!
oxox
Daisy

Summer Reading with Daisy: "Bark, George"

This week, I am bringing you a book that is sure to inspire non-talkers like myself.  Bark, George is written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer.  I love the story and the pictures of the little pup, George, are darling!

George's mom tells him to bark.  Instead of a 'woof', an animal sound comes out of his mouth!  Here, George says "Meow" (that's for you, Madi).

Poor George's mom gets so frustrated with him.  He just keeps talking in farm animal speak, not dog.  Here he says, "oink". His mom decides to take him to the vet.

Thankfully, none of our dog-tors stick their hands down our throats and pull out a PIG!  Poor George had all of these animals inside of him!  No wonder he couldn't bark!

There's a little twist at the end because George then says...

Hahahahaha - I bet you can guess what happened!  Wouldn't it be fun to talk in different animal languages?!

Summer Reading With Daisy: The Day The Crayons Quit

Hey Everyone! It's me, Daisy!  I'm back with summer reading every Wednesday.  I have a whole stack of books to tell you about.  First up, The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt.  We know crayons all quit on the last day of school, but this isn't a story about summer vacation.  The story starts off with Duncan (!!!) getting a stack of letters...from his crayons!  

Each crayon wrote a letter to Duncan.  They talked about how they aren't used enough, are his favorite, are only used for holidays and firetrucks (red), which is the real color of the sun (orange or yellow), and how they are happy with their career so fat (green).

Poor beige.  He's tired of being second place to Brown because Brown gets all the puppies, bears, and ponies. Beige just gets wheat and maybe a turkey dinner.  I need to have a talk with Beige...he's missing out on drawing a lot of Wheatie puppies!  Beige would be used all the time for drawing me!!!!

This is the funniest part of the book in my opinion.  Peach is NAKED!  Hahahahaha!  Poor Peach had it's clothes torn off and is now too embarrassed to leave the box.  We all know crayons like Peach.

On the last page, Duncan honored all the crayons' request and created a masterpiece.

This is such a creative book and really makes you think about the crayons in your box.  The illustrations by Oliver Jeffers make you really relate to the crayons' emotions.  We know you'd want to color a masterpiece, too, after reading this story!

December Reading with Daisy: Olive The Other Reindeer

We couldn't let this month go by without highlighting a few holiday books!  First up - Olive the Other Reindeer by Seibold and Walsh.  I would like to introduce to you Olive...

Olive is a little pup who lives in a big city.  She was taking her daily dog walk and heard, "All of the other reindeer..." playing.

Olive was singing the catchy song to herself "Olive, the other reindeer..."!  Do you get it?!  We crack up at this part every time.  Olive thought she was a dog until she heard this song...now she thinks she must be a reindeer who helps Santa!

Olive makes a quirky journey to the North Pole and Santa signs her onto his team.  You can see Olive in action on this page.

There is a little scary part in this part of the book.  We'll just say that it's a good think Olive was there to help out Santa!

The story ends with Olive enjoying Mrs. Claus' parade of cookies!!!  

The illustrations in this book are SO FUN!  We know it's a book every pup would love because who hasn't dreamed of helping out Santa Claus?!

Summer Reading With Daisy: "David Goes To School"

School starts tomorrow.  It's our last night of summer vacation.  For my last summer review, I picked David Goes To School by David Shannon.  Good Boy, Fergus, also by David Shannon, kicked off my summer reading - so I decided to end with another book by him.  There are a lot of David books.  The first graders always get a kick out of David because he's so naughty.  We are secretly hoping there is not a "David" in this year's class!

David hears the word "no" a lot because he has no self control.  We talk about what David could have done instead.

When you are a little kid or puppy, this is always an issue.  Always.

Oh, David is sooooooo bad!  Do you see the drawing of Fergus on his desk?

David finally gets to go home.  We always hope David can follow the rules and is ready to learn when he comes back to school the next day.

I helped make some "magic dough" for the students tomorrow.  Every student gets a little ball of dough. There's magic in the air on the first day of first grade for a first grader.  If you squish the dough (when you get the OK to!) and it turns a color, you are going to have a GREAT year!  If it doesn't turn a color, UH OH.

We hope all the first graders have a magical first year and don't have a "David" in their class!!
oxox
Daisy