June 20, 2020

I've posted short lists of favorite reads every now and then over the past couple of years, but since they might be hard to find, I went back and collected them all to create one easy-to-find list. Here it is:

                                                    The Lightner Boys' Best Books

Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Adam Rex

Rhyme Crime by Jon Burgerman

Little Boy With A Big Horn Jack Bechdolt.

The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler

We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown

June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner

Accident! by Andrea Tsurumi

"Stand Back," said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!" by Patricia Thomas

How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham

The Wild Washerwomen by John Yeoman

Library Lil by Suzanne Williams

Big Snow by Jonathan Bean

Go, Go Grapes! by April Pulley Savre

The Day the Babies Crawled Away by Peggy Rathman

The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeu by Andrea Beatty

Born in the Wild by Lita Judge

Mama Seeton's Whistle by Jerry Spinelli

Zoom by Istvan Banyai

My Grandfather's Coat by Jim Aylesworth

Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett

When's My Birthday? by Julie Fogliano

Brother Hugo and the Bear by Katy Beebe

If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty

My Pet Book by Bob Staake

Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewart

All God's Critters by Bill Staines (illustrations by Kadir Nelson)

The Mysterious Tadpole by Stephen Kellog

Odd Socks by Michelle Robinson

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Patterson

Leave Me Alone! by Vera Brosgol

The Day Louis Got Eaten by John Fardell

The Man from the Land of Fandango by Margaret Mahy

Lentil by Robert McClosky

A Fine Dessert by Emily Jenkins

Hooray for Bread by Alan Ahlberg

The Baby Beebee Bird by Diane Redfield Massey

Gus's Garage by Leo Timmers

Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book about Building by Kurt Cyrus

Joseph's Big Ride by Terry Farish

Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

Poor Doreen: A Fishy Tale by Sally Lloyd-Jones

Hey Diddle Diddle by Eve Bunting

Whose Shoe? by Eve Bunting

My Father Knows the Names of Things by Jane Yolen

Stone Soup retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown

The Princess and the Pea retold and illustrated by Rachel Isadora

The Fisherman's Wife retold and illustrated by Rachel Isadora

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

Tap Tap, Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemel

Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin

Thumbtack Dancer by Leslie Tryon

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (Q)

One Fox by Kate Read (Q)

My Art Book of Sleep by Shana Gozansky (Q)

The Quiet Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown (Q)

Playtime Rhymes by Michael Rosen (Q)

But Not the Armadillo by Sandra Boynton (Q)

Let's Feed the Ducks! by Rachel Benge (Q)

Cars Galore by Peter Stein (Q)

June 16, 2020

This past Sunday, we had our first live church service in almost two months...

Since we still technically aren't supposed to be using the building, we gathered in the park across the way...

Finally having the freedom to do this again feels almost like a physical weight off the shoulders...

June 5, 2020

Zadok is beginning to show an artistic ability that seems a bit unusual for a five year old. I find these reminiscent of some of his Aunt Kate's early creations.

 (Note: he chose the names for all these little beings, too.)