My five year old brought home these two library books this last week and I liked them enough to want to share.  The first is Dino in the Jungle! by Mark Shulman.  It’s a silly repeating book about a rhino that keeps being mistaken as a dinosaur.  It repeats itself over and over again with different animals so that by the second reading of the book Truman could tell me the story himself.  He loved getting to the end when the rhino is finally discovered. “‘That’s no Dino,’  he said. ‘That’s a Rhino!  There’s a Rhino in the jungle’ ‘Hello Rhino!’”  This is not a book I would go out and buy but I would definitely be OK if he brought it home from the library again.

The second book is Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss.  I know, you’re thinking to yourself “I’ve read that book a thousand times”.  You’re right but I have never read this book until this last week.  What a gem of a find.  We own a bunch of Dr. Seuss books and some of them are such nonsense that going into this book I didn’t think I was going to like it.  But I did.  Very much.  For those of you not familiar with it it’s a narrator speaking to a boy about the adventures he will have in his life.  The narrator talks about good and bad times that the boy will encounter throughout his life.  The narrator talks to the boy about picking himself up and going back along his journey when things go wrong.  I couldn’t believe it as I was reading.  What a great message for my kid to bring home from school.  I enjoyed this book so much that it may be an addition to our library.

Are you guys familiar with these books?