Very Last First Time - Book Review - SAB*

Someone asked for book recommendations for stories describing a different culture.  This book - Very Last First Time - immediately came to mind.  This definently makes the Snider Approved Book list.

A simple story, wonderfully unique pictures, and a setting no child from my family would even think exists.  Eva Padlyat, a young Inuit girl, has helped her mother collect mussels.  But this time is different it is the very last first time she is allowed to go alone under the ice.  She climbs under the ice and walks along the seabed with only a candle as light.  Of course the candle goes outand she is alone in the darkness.  

The story is fascinating and not scary.  All my kids enjoyed this book but my daughter were particulary fascinted by the young girls adventure.

*Snider Approved Book - Read This for how a book earns the coveted SAB

Sheep in a Jeep - A Review

We love books.  We love reading and reading to our kids.  Every Saturday I take the kids to the library to check out another stash of books.  Most weeks we even return the books we checked out the previous week. (The next wing of the library may be funded by the fines I've paid)

This is the first of what I hope is a regular review of books.  Here the checklist  to make the Snider approved book list:

• It was enjoyed at some point by all nine children
• Scott and Gina enjoyed reading it to the kids numerous times without going crazy.  

It also helps if:

• Scott or Gina enjoyed it as a child and passed on the love to our own kids
• One of the kids loved it enough they purchased it for their own child/niece/nephew

So the honor of the first book review goes to --- Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw.

My grandson, Ezekiel, turned one this week and his Aunt Autumn bought this board book for him. When it was opened everyone said, "Oh, I loved that book".  

Sheep in a Jeep is a fun rhyming book with colorful pictures.  Five sheep climb into a jeep and take a wild ride down a hill.  I would read it at various paces and use funny voices.  It is a go to book if you are looking for short bedtime story.