I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Reading is so magical and takes you to so many places, places you can only dream of sometimes. But what if they were real and you could actually live there? How amazing would that be? I’ve chosen my top five fictional places that I would want to live.
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Hogwarts, Harry Potter Series
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The Shire, Lord of the Rings
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Pemberly, Pride and Prejudice
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Neverland, Peter Pan
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The Treehouse, Swiss Family Robinson
These are my top five fictional places. What are your top five?
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(2013) by Kate Banks from the library. It is an incredibly fun story about a very smart stray cat who wants to go on a European adventure with a family. City cat travels through Europe to Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. It is beautifully illustrated by Lauren Castillo. I quickly fell in love with City Cat and am sure you will too, just watch this book trailer.
(coming in April of 2015) written by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Lauren Castillo, a book about big changes for one petite, her family is moving from their home into an apartment and she needs to get rid of a lot of her things in order to fit everything into their new home. I think that this book speaks to so many families who have had to downsize and move to new home, but why I am so excited about this book is the message that home is who you choose to live with not where you live.
(2014) written and illustrated by Ms. Castillo is a 2015 Caldecott Honor Book. This book is about a little boy who goes to visit his nana in the city at her new apartment. At first he doesn’t like the city, it is too busy, too loud and too scary. Nana assures him in the most delightful way by making him a red cape that helps him to be brave. The next day the two explore the city and the boy begins to realize that the city is quite extraordinary.
(2014) written and illustrated by Ms. Castillo is about a boy who is bored on a warm summer day, he takes his sisters rabbit and of course gets caught and is in trouble. When other items start to go missing everyone assumes it’s the brother, but this time there is another culprit. Just wait until you see who is the mischievous one stealing everyone’s snugglies.
(2012) written by Amy Hest and illustrated by Lauren Castillo – let me start by saying that this book had me at the title. I love books about books and reading. This book is about a little boy who has a pup and a suitcase and they are on a mission. It is quite snowy out and our protagonist is pulling a red sled along with his suitcase, it is a tough job, but he is ready for the challenge. They get to the top of a big hill and this is where the two decide to stop and read their story together. After they are done sharing in their story on the snowy hill off they go on the sled. It is a really sweet story about a reader enjoying a story with his pup.
by Lemony Snicket (2013) with illustrations by Jon Klassen. In this book Laszlo is a young boy who is afraid of the dark, what is unique about this story is that the dark is also a character. What I think is so relatable about this story is that the petite sleeps with a nightlight on and one night the bulb burns out.
by Lizi Boyd (2014). I recently shared this book in the post – 
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by Boni Ashburn with illustrations by Kelly Murphy is a story all about patience and counting. This is a story that is so much fun to read, it has a very lyrical property based on the folk song ‘Over the Meadow’ and the counting that takes place is almost like a scavenger hunt for the petites. It all starts out as an a mother dragon and her little one are sitting in the sun. The counting continues and is a fun look at castle life. It continues through their day and ends with a very unexpected ending. I love the smooth illustrations, how the little dragon is clearly excited for something to happen all day and has to patiently wait while watching all that is happening at the castle below. My petite commented on how it would be hard to wait all day for something fun to happen.
by Steve Light you will find a charming protagonist as he searches the city for his missing and quite mischievous dragon. The illustrations in this book, especially of the dragon have a Celtic feel to them. The city scape that Steve Light has created is so detailed and intricate, you cannot possibly see all that there is to see in one reading.
A few years ago the petite received this really fun building block set from her Auntie, this building set is from Plan Toys, if you haven’t heard about these toys here is why they are fabulous:
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