You never know where you’ll find your next great read. Just this past weekend were checking out the Halloween decorations at our local Dollarama when we came across this beautiful book:
125 True Stories of Amazing Animals
You can purchase a copy on Amazon for around $15, but we found ours for only $4, and it was well worth every penny! The stories are very short – just a paragraph or so per animal – making this a great bedtime read, as you can go through as many animal entries as you want to before turning off the lights. It’s been a real hit at our house, with my son regularly referencing the different animals and recounting his favourite stories to friends and relations. He particularly loves the stories of animal friendships, and there’s a good number of those in the collection. Definitely take a look through the book section at your local discount retailers, you never know what gems you might find!
We love this series from Scholastic’s Acorn collection – the text is so simple, making it ideal for building confidence in the very earliest readers, the illustrations are adorable, and there’s some wonderful humour and heart.
Mon Livre Des Couleurs
I actually couldn’t find a link to this specific book anywhere, but there are so many similar colour primers available if you’re looking to brush up on your French! Our son has started French immersion, and the children are all required to bring home a French book from the school library every week. Fortunately I remember enough French to be able to read with him, though once he moves beyond board books I might need to brush up on my skills!
Have a great week, reading friends!
That True Stories about Amazing Animals book looks amazing, I love stories about animals 🥰!!
Both our boys went to French Immersion. My partner and I only had high school french, so we couldn’t read with them. That didn’t stop us from reading to and with them in English though. It helped that both our boys were readers in English, either before K, or somewhere near the beginning of it. I think it actually helped them become readers in French – so don’t worry.