In My Mailbox, Super Bowl Edition

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi, The Story Siren, in which we highlight the books/bookish things we got that week.

This week, I got from the library (all by Mercer Mayer):
-Oops
-Hiccup
-Frog, Where Are You?
-Frog On His Own
-A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog
-One Frog Too Many
(all are wordless.  I'm setting up a writing station in my classroom where the students will have to write the story to go with the pictures)

From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
-Just Grace and the Double Surprise
-Dodsworth in Rome

What was in your mailbox?

Review: A Green, Green Garden

Mercer Mayer is probably best known for his "Little Critter" series of books, but he also does wonderful wordless books that I love to use to get kids writing (but thats neither here nor there).  A Green, Green Garden is another in the Little Critter series, but this time, its an I Can Read book.

Here is the summary from Goodreads:
Little Critter and his family plant some vegetables. After lots of watering, weeding, and waiting, they enjoy a delicious meal—all from their green, green garden.

Written in a similar pattern to the other Little Critter books, A Green Green Garden is a great choice for a student wanting the next step up.  Its a procedural book, telling all the steps involved in creating a green garden (including picking rocks and getting so hot you need a drink of water), without being boring.  I like that it includes all the steps, as most planting books say something like, "First we planted.  Then we watered, then we waited."  with nothing in between.

I enjoyed the book, I thought it was cute.  Little Critter isn't my favorite character, but students enjoy his antics and attitude.

This is a Cybils nominated book by Kristen Harvey of The Bookmonsters. 

All opinions expressed in this review are mine, and not that of the committee.