It's Monday! What are you reading? 3-14-16

It's Monday! What are you reading? Is a wonderful community of readers, teachers, and librarians. Hosted by Jen over at Teach Mentor Texts along with Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers, participants share their reading adventures from the past week along with their reading plans for the week ahead.

My Monday posts are generally just a highlight of what I've been reading during the week so if you'd like to see all that I've been reading, follow my Goodreads page.

Family photo on moving day

This past week has been crazy busy. On Saturday, we moved into our new house and so I have been frantically packing up our old house and equally frantically trying to make our new house not look like an episode of hoarders as we attempt to figure out where all of our stuff goes. Even though the size of our new house is comparable to the old house, we have lost quite a bit of storage space, so it's going to take some adjusting to figure out where everything goes.

Despite my busy week last week, I did manage to apply for a library card in my new city of residence and amass a rather large stack of books to read. :)


Some of my favorite picture books that I read last week were:

Fresh Delicious: Poems from the Farmers' Market by Irene Latham, illustrated by Mique Moriuchi
Loved the wonderfully vivid and sensory poems in this book. I'll be writing a longer review soon.


The Tiger Who Would Be King by James Thurber, illustrated by JooHee Yoon
A classic tale that is a little too prophetic of today's modern political discourse. 


Glow: Animals with Their Own Night Lights by W.H. Beck
I think I have a new favorite word: bioluminescence 

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
This is a picture book version of No Crystal Stair and is the story of Lewis Micheaux, Harlem's most famous bookseller. 

I Carry Your Heart with Me by e.e. cummings, illustrated by Mati Rose McDonough
I've always loved this e.e. cummings poem, and I love it even more now with Mati McDonough's illustrations. This would be a beautiful baby shower gift for a new mom.


Last week I reviewed:

The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers
Normal Norman by Tara Lazar, illustrated by S. Britt


Current giveaway:

Good Morning Yoga and Good Night Yoga by Mariam Gates, illustrated by Sarah Jane Hinder


Currently (still) reading with my eyes and ears:
 
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith 
Paperweight by Meg Haston