I read several picture books this past (rainy) weekend, including two wonderful books from Char. We start with Toot & Puddle, by Holly Hobbie. Toot and Puddle are best friends, and share a small house. One is the house hermit, one likes to travel. Char said they remind her of introverts and extroverts. Toot travels the world, Puddle stays home ... and, they stay best friends.

Toot is blue. Puddle wants to find out why, and get him out of his funk. Nothing he tries works until ... well, you'll have to get the book to find that out in You Are My Sunshine, also by Holly Hobbie. (Nope, it's not that obvious). ;-)

Here's one from Constant Reader: I'd Really Like to Eat a Child, by Sylviane Donnio and illustrated by Dorothee de Monfreid. A young crocodile named Achilles is tired of the bananas his mother brings him every morning and considers widening his range of food to include a human child. Things don't work out quite as he planned.

And lastly, Crafty Reader reminded me of an old favorite: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst. We've all had days like this!

Reading Hermit With Dog