Who Loves Mac Barnett (the author)??!!

Hello all you Alisal Bears!  Last Thursday was such an exciting day for the library.  Mr. Mario arrived with a dolly full of books -- brand new books for the students to read.  I can't wait to get these awesome books checked out to kids in the next few days!  I took a few home to try out with my own kids over the weekend.  We all loved Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett.  Watch the trailer for book here:

Obviously, the first reason to love it is how funny it is!  Lots of giggles from both kids and myself as we read through it.  But lots of books are funny, right?  What I also enjoyed was the fact that it highlighted the importance of the illustrator in making a picture book what it becomes.  Reading this book makes me think of many questions about authors and illustrators and how they work together… Like, do they get to pick each other? What if they don't like the other's work?

This is the third book by Mac Barnett that I have read in the Alisal Library that I have loved. The other two are Count the Monkeys (recommended to me by Franke in Room14) and Guess Again, which was loved by all the first grade classes back in January.

And we also received President Taft is Stuck in the Bath and Sam and Dave Dig a Big Hole.  I haven't read them yet but I'm sure I'll be cracking up yet again!  We'll be having some fun reading Mac Barnett's books after Spring Break!