Day 15 of the 25 Days of Christmas: Celebrate Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales!

Expose your child to timeless tales with these two great treasuries!

Engelbreit, Mary.
Mary Engelbreit's Fairy Tales: Twelve Timeless Treasures.
October 2010.
HarperCollins.
Review copy provided courtesy of publisher.

The images and illustrations of Mary Engelbreit come to life in this wonderful treasury of twelve fairy tales, meant for sharing with your child! Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Frog Prince, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, Rapunzel, Thumbelina, Snow White and the Red Rose, Rumpelstiltskin, and Sleeping Beauty.

The fairy tales are generally 12 pages or less, making this an ideal treasury for bedtime reading, as well as a quick reference for teaching using different fairy tales!

Mavor, Sally.
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes.
September 2010.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Review copy provided courtesy of publisher.

Complete with over sixty nursery rhymes, Pocketful of Posies is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers and children alike! From the classics, (Little Bo Peep, Pat-a-cake, and Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill) to the lesser known (See saw, Margery Daw, and Molly, My Sister), children will love the rhyming and take pleasure in learning all about nursery rhymes!

This is definitely a must have and I'm so lucky that I can take this in and share all these with my preschoolers!

In your gift basket, along with the two titles above, include:

• Treasury of 25 Classics: Fairy Tales, Magic... and More! (Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD)
• Classic Fairy Stories (Audio CD)
• 100 Favourite Nursery Rhymes & Songs
• Mother Goose Treasury, Volume 1: Sing Along Nursery Rhymes
  

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!Muu Moo!

Nursery rhyme-a-day - 16 nursery rhymes to share!

Ada, Alma Flor.
!Muu, Moo!
March 2010.
HarperCollins Publishers.
Review copy provided courtesy of publisher.

In !Muu, Moo!, Alma Flora Ada and F. Isabel Campoy have compiled a selection of sixteen animal nursery rhymes, shared in Spanish. Rosalma Zubizarreta has compiled the English version of the same sixteen. The animal nursery rhymes found within the pages of this particular title come traditionally from Spain, Latin American and the United States. The rhymes are fun, and beautifully illustrated, helping the youngest of children to make a connection between text and context clues found within the illustrations. The following is a list of animal nursery rhymes found within:

• Martin Found a Mouse
  Debajo de un boton
• Little Brown Duck
  Patito, patito, color de cafe
• The Rooster Cock-a-Doodle-Dows
  El gallo Espolon
• A White Turtle Dove
  Una paloma blanca
• My Dear Little Rabbit
  Mi conejito
• My Donkey
  El burro
• The Meadow Toads
  Los sapitos
• The Cat and the Mouse
  El gato y el raton
• Fly Hushed Frog
  La mosca a la rana
• 'Twas Half an Hour to Midnight
  Las once y media serian
• The Flea's Wedding
  Las bodas de la pulga y el piojo
• Chirp, Chirp
  Cri-cri
• Spring
  Primavera
• The Owl
  La lechuza
• Ramon and His Dog
  Ramon y su perro
• The Musical Cicada
  La cigarra guitarrista
  

Bilingual books are quickly finding a place in my heart, as I have found out that I will have a child in my preschool class next year whose parents speak only Spanish. In order to ensure the success of this child (with the help of her parents), I want to be sure to reach out to them and make them feel comfortable in helping their child in any way possible. Providing that family with bilingual literature will allow them the opportunity to work with their daughter, and at the same time, pick up on a little bit of the English language they are working hard to learn! Because of this, this is another book that will certainly be included in my "literacy backpack" sets!

Learning/Reading Activity:

• Because nursery rhymes (and these in particular) feature lines containing rhyming words, use these nursery rhymes to reinforce the concept of rhyming! Download the following worksheet and, while you are reading, have your child(ren) point out (at least) one pair of words that rhyme from each individual nursery rhyme.
  

If you're interested in finding out more information about any of the books reviewed or if you'd like to purchase the books, click the cover image for a link to Amazon.com. I am an Amazon Affiliate, so any purchases you make after clicking these images will result in my receiving a small percentage of the sale price!