Category Archives: Family Read-Aloud
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Barry, Boyhound
Posted on April 20, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in animals, Family Read-Aloud, Humorous Storiesby Andy Spearman Barry is an average boy–nothing special, no magical powers or special talents–just an average boy. Who happens to wake up one day and discover (kind of slowly) that he is a dog in a boy’s body. Just like that, no explanations, no instruction manual. What might be viewed as a problem turns [...]
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Class Two at the Zoo
Posted on April 17, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Family Read-Aloud, Humorous Stories, Picture Booksby Julia Jarman Class Two goes to the zoo for a field trip. While they’re looking at the other animals, a huge anaconda starts swallowing members of the class one by one! Through a silly rhyme, we learn how Class Two makes it out of the zoo…and out of the anaconda. This would make a [...]
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The Magician’s Elephant
Posted on April 16, 2010 by Jennifer in Family Read-Aloud, Fantasyby Kate DiCamillo DiCamillo’s newest novel is enticingly mysterious and magical. We first meet Peter, a boy orphaned at a young age and left in the care of a strict and sometimes irrational soldier, Vilna Lutz. While wondering through the marketplace one day, he spends the single coin (given to him to purchase food) on [...]
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The Hotel Under the Sand
Posted on February 5, 2010 by Jennifer in Adventure, Family Read-Aloud, Fantasyby Kage Baker I almost did not pick up this book because the cover looked really boring, but I am glad I did. It begins with 11-year-old Emma sailing up to a deserted shore of sand dunes after surviving a storm. On her first night under her makeshift shelter, she befriends a congenial ghost named [...]
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Odd and the Frost Giants
Posted on February 5, 2010 by Victoria in Adventure, fairy tales and folklore, Family Read-Aloudby Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Brett Helquist Neil Gaiman wrote Odd and the Frost Giants for World Book Day in the United Kingdom. Gaiman explains: “In most of the world (but not America) they have World Book Day. On World Book Day, in the UK, schoolchildren are given book tokens to buy books with, and [...]
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Big Wolf & Little Wolf
Posted on January 25, 2010 by Victoria in animals, Family Read-Aloud, My Favorite, other award winners, Picture BooksBig Wolf & Little Wolf is a touching story of friendship between a big wolf and a little blue wolf who moves into the neighborhood. Big Wolf is accustomed to being the biggest wolf in the woods, and also quite set in his solitary ways. He feels threatened by the small new wolf who wants [...]
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Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
Posted on January 2, 2010 by Victoria in Adventure, Family Read-Aloud, Humorous StoriesI’m a big fan of M.T. Anderson’s Jasper Dash stories. So I nabbed Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware as soon as I saw it. This would be a really fun read-aloud book for the family because it works on so many different levels. Kids will laugh at its pure silliness, and adults will [...]
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Mr. Potter’s Pet
Posted on December 27, 2009 by Laura in animals, Early Chapter Books, Family Read-Aloud, Humorous Storiesby Dick King-Smith Mr. Potter’s Pet is an easy reading, funny book about a shy man’s search for the perfect pet. When he brings home a loud, talking mynah bird, life begins to get interesting! His new friend not only carries on a conversation but suggests some changes to Mr. Potter’s boring world. The mynah [...]
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Posted on December 4, 2009 by Jennifer in animals, Family Read-AloudBy Roald Dahl This short novel by beloved author Roald Dahl is one I never read as a kid, but with the new movie in theaters now (and getting good reviews), I thought I should check it out. Mr. Fox is a high-spirited can-do kind of guy. When he is outwitted by the three nasty [...]
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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Posted on November 3, 2009 by Victoria in Family Read-Aloud, Fantasy, Humorous Storiesby Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians You can practically hear the voiceover on the title, can’t you? What a fun book for kids and adults (even librarians)! The plot is a twist on the standard fantasy plot: “orphan kid (lovable, but misunderstood) must save the world from an evil conspiracy.” Mix in conspiring [...]
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