{"id":1016,"date":"2007-03-19T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/03\/books-we-love\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:27:04","slug":"books-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/03\/books-we-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Books We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have an unbelievable number of books in our house. Paperback books that I’ve collected since high school, textbooks from college, fiction, science fiction, non-fiction…<\/p>\n

I started buying books for Carrie before she was even born. I’d see a picture book that I had to have to read to her someday and I’d buy it. We have an obscene number of board books, and a growing library of “paper page” books for her. We also frequent the library, and when we bring home a new batch of books we have to read them over and over again until they’re practically memorized.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of amazing children’s books out there. But there are so many, it’s hard to know where to start. So I thought I’d mention some of the books we really, really love in this house, in case anyone is looking for some ideas. Just as a warning, it’s a pretty safe bet that they’re either going to have dogs or sheep in them, or sometimes bunnies.<\/p>\n

The first one actually doesn’t have animals as a main theme. We’ve gotten this book out of the library a few times now, and I think we may have to add it to our collection:<\/p>\n

The Night is Singing<\/a> by Jacqueline Davies.
\nThe illustrations in this book are an amazing mix of collage and painting. Every time I read it I see a detail I’d missed before. I really love the main character’s knit bunny! It’s also a very readable book, with lyrical rhyming text (“Pip-pip popping\/acorns dropping\/on the roof above your head”). The book is about a little girl getting ready to go to sleep and identifying all the various noises of the night as lullabies. It is one of our very favorite bedtime stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have an unbelievable number of books in our house. Paperback books that I’ve collected since high school, textbooks from college, fiction, science fiction, non-fiction… I started buying books for Carrie before she was even born. I’d see a picture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}