Comments on: Board Books 2011: What Worked Well (a biased opinion) http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/ A School Library Journal Blog Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:21:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 By: Sam Bloom http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-541721 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:58:44 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-541721 Oh yeah, I’ve had moments at my own story times where kids have either started crying based on a completely random bit from a book or because of my facial expression, whatever. It’s strange. I don’t think it was you, though… the kid’s facial expression seemed to be the problem. Now I’m curious and thinking I need to give it another shot now that she is older!

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By: Elizabeth Bird http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-540933 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:43:09 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-540933 Huh! The “Quiet” is often their favorite part. It may just be that I’m a frightening gal. Interesting, though! I once had a girl who every time I did “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” she would plug her ears and glare and me.

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By: Sam Bloom http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-540915 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:23:44 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-540915 I’ll second, third and fourth the love for Orange Pear Apple Bear… a favorite in our house (and at my preschool story times). I hadn’t caught the connections between that one and the Cloudy… board book. Amazing that an imprint could make such a great decision and such a ridiculously bad one within such a short time period.

Oh, and the Noisy Counting Book – my daughter is terrified of that book. I remember when you did a webcam readaloud of that, and at the part where the kid yells, “Quiet!” she burst into tears. Weird, huh?

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By: Kate Coombs http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-536908 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:43:19 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-536908 My favorite board books are Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Jamberry, and Goodnight, Gorilla. They are especially good for 2- and 3-year-olds!

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By: Rebecca Glaser http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-534486 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:04:43 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-534486 I’m so glad to know that Orange Pear Apple Bear is a board book now. We have it in hard cover and I think it’s just delightful, my oldest daughter loved it when she was just learning to read. I think I will get the board book version for my nieces when they turn one.

I also love Karen Katz but books with flaps do not survive my second child.

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By: Elizabeth Bird http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-534243 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:05:07 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-534243 Depends on the moving parts, Nora. Some books are enormously sturdy. Others die on a first read. Anyone ever seen that Mo Willems title Big Frog Can’t Fit In? That thing fell apart when an adult read it. Oog.

Thanks for the FYI on the old Pizza Man, Virginia. Scholastic, eh? Fingers are double crossed then.

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By: Maria Simon http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-534070 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:36:30 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-534070 I’m with you and Kathy J. We took our Hi Pizza Man! out of circ for our own use. Would love it in hard cover and even as a jumbo. It is so fun to share with a crowd. Thanks for this list. I know what you mean about Karen Katz. I look forward to sharing Counting Christmas at my storytime tomorrow morning.

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By: Nora H http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533751 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:20:07 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533751 Do the titles with movable parts seem like they’d survive multiple library circulations?

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By: Kathy J http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533606 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:06:25 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533606 And while they’re printing the board book, bring back HI, PIZZA MAN! in hardcover as well. I’ve taken our last worn copy out of circulation so that I can use it in storytime forever — but it would be nice to be able to let kids take a copy home!

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By: Amy http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533579 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:53:51 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533579 I was surprised how much my two older kids, ages 4 and 7, enjoyed Orange Bear Apple Pear. They were able to totally appreciate the humor in a pear-shaped bear, etc. Also, I’m glad to hear that they’ve made a board book of Where is My Baby? The flaps fell right off the first version of that book. I love Harriet Ziefert’s illustrations.

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By: Betsy http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533475 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:14:40 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533475 My niece(s) and nephew(s) all wore out several copies of Moo, Baa, La, La, La. The eldest is in her second year of university and I can still recite it. I owe Sandra Boynton a debt of gratitude.

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By: Virginia Walter http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533462 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:08:23 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533462 From your mouth to God’s ear — or just to somebody with influence at Scholastic! “Hi, Pizza Man!” kind of got lost when Scholastic acquired Orchard. I get emails regularly from parents looking for a copy and reluctant to pay $75 for a used copy on eBay.

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By: marjorie http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533449 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:59:54 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533449 rams posts for me. DON’T TAUNT US, BIRD.

The big Boynton hits here were all those previously mentioned, plus Snoozers and Dinos to Go. Oh, and my younger kid (now 7) recently used the musical version of Snuggle Puppy (from Philadelphia Chickens, which really is an awesome album and is still on our playlist for car trips — Patti LuPone, Meryl Streep and Laura Linney FTW!) as an audition song.

I loved reading Where Is My Baby because I would unaccountably start channeling the voice of Ptery on Pee-wee’s Playhouse saying “I am not a baby.” I was sleep-deprived.

Trying to think about what other board books were big when they were very small (under 18 months): Leslie Patricelli (Yummy, Yucky especially); Hola! Jalapeño; Hug; Little Gorilla; Whose Knees are These and Whose Toes are Those; Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb; and Mary Blair’s Up and Down Book (which I also found to be design crack — and holy crap, it’s OUT OF PRINT, what is WRONG with AMERICA). There were books I loathed that the girls loved (10 Little Ladybugs) and books I loved that they had little interest in (The Snowy Day). And you’d think Big Red Barn wouldn’t work (the pix are TINY in the board book version), but my older daughter adored it; younger one wouldn’t pee on it if it were on fire.

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By: Mother Lydia http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533206 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:07:23 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533206 Happy Hippo is new this year? No wonder I missed it before.

And yeah, the coloring did look strange, though I couldn’t put my finger on what was wrong.

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By: Sondy http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-533119 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:42:07 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-533119 My now-23-year-old son’s first word was “FFffff”! It came out when reading Sandra Boynton’s DOGGIES. (The text says “Woof!”) He was very young and completely surprised me when he started saying it when we read that book. Our favorite was BLUE HAT, RED HAT (that absolutely-perfect-for-a-two-year-old book).

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By: Elizabeth Bird http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-532705 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:22:24 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-532705 Oh, and I wondered if I’d include a book that already had a board book version. Off to put that Baker on my wishlist now!

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By: Elizabeth Bird http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-532697 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:20:55 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-532697 Thought about it but pictures take a long time to upload. Blame the lazy holidays.

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By: Stephanie http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-532573 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:10:59 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-532573 I agree with you on Hi Pizza Man. I badly want a copy of this for my kids, and a board book version would be perfect. My little gal’s preference in board books seems to be judged by how they sound when she smacks them repeatedly into her high chair/walker/the radiator. But she’s beginning to enjoy joining us for storytime with my son.

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By: rams http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-532501 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:37:08 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-532501 NO PICTURES????

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By: Elizabeth Fama http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/12/21/board-books-2011-what-worked-well-a-biased-opinion/#comment-532436 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:59:58 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=10980#comment-532436 The sun has set not long ago,
Now everybody goes below
To take a bath in one big tub
With soap all over, scrub scrub scrub…

It has been TWENTY YEARS and I could recite the book to its finish right here if you asked me to. It will be the last thing I’m babbling in the nursing home when I can’t remember my children’s names.

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