Dom and I love to read together.  Rather, I read while he flips the pages so quickly that I can’t keep up.  Same difference.

We check anywhere from 5 – 15 children’s books out of the library each week.  We also have an extensive children’s collection on our own bookshelves.  There are some books that Dom and I love so much that I want to share them with other parents.  So I figure that I’ll do that once a week or so.  Here is this week’s book corner…

Piggies by Audrey and Don Wood

Another oldie but goodie (published in 1991), Piggies is beautifully illustrated.  Each page has a painting of hands with pigs held on the fingers.  The piggies in the story are each participating in a different activity on each page, and it is fun to discuss what they are doing.  The story starts off with a pig on each thumb.  The book begins:

 I’ve got two (page 1)
 Fat little piggies, (page 2)
 Two smart (page 3)
 Little piggies, (page 4)

As the story continues, two more piggies are added to the drawings until each finger and thumb is holding one.  For this counting lesson alone, this book is worth checking out.  But that isn’t all…after we count to ten on full fingers and thumbs, the story introduces opposites:

 Sometimes they’re
 Hot little piggies,
 And sometimes they’re
 Cold little piggies.

Dom reads this story with me.  The short text makes it easy to show him words as we read, and he loves to skip ahead to the next piggies’ activities.  Any book that can hold his attention long enough to be finished is a winner in my opinion. 

This book is another that no kid should miss!