1997
Good Books for Little Friends
January 1997


“Good Books for Little Friends,” Friend, Jan. 1997, 31

Good Books for Little Friends

Lunch by Denise Fleming With illustrations created from homemade paper, we see a little mouse nibble and chomp its way through veggies and fruit of all the colors of the rainbow.

My “Everyday Book” by Erma Manwill White This first in the “Grandma Erma’s Stories” series has a tape with it that is narrated by Grandma Erma herself and that children can use to “read” to themselves. The book helps them obey their parents, share their toys, behave in stores and restaurants, and more. And it’s done with bouncy verse and appealing pictures. Available through Church outlets.

One Snowy Night by Nick Butterworth Percy the park keeper loved animals, so when a big snowstorm came up, he was willing to share his bed. But soon there were so many in his bed that they all fell out. And there was a scary scratching noise under the floor … !

How Do Bears Sleep? by E. J. Bird “Now I’ve asked all my friends / But nobody knows / Just how a bear sleeps / When the winter wind blows.” This eighty-one-year-old author-illustrator says that he “still likes to watch bears.”