Container #3: Packed!

CanCan, 09 July 2008,
Categories: Moving overseas

Duffle Bag. Weight: about 64 pounds

Books:

Nonfiction, children’s:

My First Thanksgiving (dePaola)
Why Do Tigers Have Stripes (Usborne Science)
The Bible and Me
How Things Grow
My Little Golden Book About God
First Dictionary
Lift The Flap: Time
Needs
Learning About Jesus
Who Does Jesus Love?
One Morning In Joseph’s Garden
Digging Up Dinosaurs (Alik)
Christmas Is A Time Of Giving

I got on a non-fiction children’s book kick last year. I realized that Jojo’s preschool mind absorbs so much, why not expose him to actual facts once in a while? It is important to me to have lots of books around, especially because in Laos there isn’t much access to English language books.

Books: Fiction, Childrens:

· Max’s Dragon Shirt (Wells)
· Grover’s Guide to Good Manners
· Fox All Week
· Corduroy
· A Kiss for Little Bear
· Father Bear Comes Home
· Uncle Elephant
· Look Outdoors
· I Love To Look
· Wiggle
· Click Clack Moo
· I Spy A Pumpkin
· One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
· Diego Saves A Butterfly

I’m really trying to pack “good books”. Once I read an article in which books were compared to “junk food” and “healthy food”, meaning that some books are works of art that will nourish the mind, and some are just…junk. I try to use that to guide my thinking when I am selecting books for my children. I ask myself, “What can they learn from THIS book?”

Grown-Up Books (I wanted to type “Adult Books”, but that is not really what I mean…)