cherryblossommj
Written on Jan 15, 2013
Recommended to Margaret by: Sonlight P3/4
Read on May 21, 2012
We read this one within our "Mike Mulligan and More" Storybook Treasury, although I wouldn't mind adding the individual book to our shelf someday. Katy is a very neat read. First recommended to me through P3/4 and then again through AOY0 we've read this one time and again. We've read it anytime of year, but it's best in the winter, when we have just a dusting of snow. Here the girls get to see the excitement and possibility (imagination!) of how life could be if we lived somewhere with lots of snow.
Virginia Lee Burton is an author/illustrator that has definitely earned a place on my keeper list. Slowly but surely we're adding more of her titles to our shelves and I'm loving it! Katy is a special character and one that I'm sure we'll revisit time and again.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Recommended to Margaret by: Sonlight P3/4
Read on December 06, 2012 — I own a copy
I grabbed this one up already knowing thanks to the Mike Mulligan and More: A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury that I really like Virginia Lee Burton's writing and illustrations. The combination of gently showing old things turning into new as well as giving personality to the machines that help make our lives run is just great for everyone as well as my preschooler. She loves every story we're read from Virginia Lee Burton and I look forward to reading more and more. Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne worked hard and these are important lessons for all to learn.
We have a beat up old teacher's copy from a relative, but also have this one in the treasury. I'm glad.
I still need to review The Little House and Maybelle the Cable Car, both of which we also enjoyed.