Book of the week – Peely Wally by Kali Stileman

This was a favourite book from earlier in the year and so when Luath spied it in the library she quickly put it on the “to check out” pile.  The title makes me smile as in Scotland “peely wally” means pale/ill-looking.

It is a brightly illustrated picture book.  The story is of Peely Wally who has an egg, “which is small, yes, spotty, yes, but absolutely perfect in every way”.  The egg rolls off the branch and you follow it’s adventure (by tracing the lines) as it is helped back to Peely Wally. 

Luath especially loved helping the egg hatch and joining in with the line “small, yes……”
(Luath is 22 months)

Book of the week – No! by Marta Altes

We all loved this picture book.  It is the story of a dog who thinks he is a well behaved dog, but the illustrations show what the family think of his actions.

Most double page spread has what the dog is thinking he is doing “I help them with their laundry” and then a speech bubble saying No! or Nooooooooo!  Luath had fun saying the No! parts of the story.  The illustrations are clever and you can’t help falling for the cute dog..  There is such a funny ending.  You could use this book to talk about expected behaviours but we just thought it was fun – maybe because we have/had dogs like this.

(Luath is 22 months)