Wee Reads: Pumpkin Island by Arthur Geisert

Ever since Finn was born, and even before then, we would read to him. We wanted to show him reading from an early age. Now he loves us to read the same books, over, and over, and over. But it is the sweetest thing, when he likes to pick out a book and climb into our laps. 

Pumpkin Island by Arthur Geisert

  

Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert’s Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins.
Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life—that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what’s a town to do? In these pages, Geisert imagines the town of Elkader overrun by the pumpkins that grow on Pumpkin Island, which sits in the Turkey River, right outside his kitchen window

Do you like this book?
Yeah because I loooove pumpkins! I like going to the pumpkin patch!

What's your favorite part of the book?
When they made all of the pumpkins into jack o lanters and they lit them up like on Halloween!

What do you think of the cover?
I like all of the pumpkins. Because this is a book about pumpkins!


This was a fun book about pumpkins! Finn absolutely loves pumpkins, we've been taking him to the pumpkin patch since he was just a couple months old, ever year we go. 

I love how in the book it teaches to use the vines as fertilizer to make even more beautiful plants.

The artwork is beautiful in this book and I want to buy the actual book to read to him!

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Arthur Geisert grew up in Los Angeles, California, and claims not to have seen a pig until he was an adult. Trained as a sculptor in college, Geisert learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Geisert has published just about a book a year for the past thirty years. Every one of his books has been illustrated with etchings. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Horn Book Magazine. In 2010 his book Ice was selected as a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated book of the year. Geisert currently lives in a converted bank building in Bernard, Iowa.

Wee Reads: Finn's Feather by Rachel Noble

Ever since Finn was born, and even before then, we would read to him. We wanted to show him reading from an early age. Now he loves us to read the same books, over, and over, and over. But it is the sweetest thing, when he likes to pick out a book and climb into our laps. 

Finn's Feather by Rachel Noble

  

Finn knows his brother is gone. But he also knows that Hamish sent the beautiful white feather on his doorstep.
Finn runs to shows his mother the feather from Hamish, but she only gives him a big hug. In school, Finn’s teacher responds similarly. Why isn’t anyone as excited as he is? Finn sits quietly, cradling the beautiful, amazing feather. “Why did Hamish give it to you?” asks his friend, Lucas. “Maybe he wanted to say hi?” wonders Finn. “Maybe,” Lucas says, “Hamish wanted you to have fun with it.”

Finn’s Feather is a story about resilience and memory―about a child, his brother, and a friend who meets him where he is.

Do you like this book?
Yeah! He got a feather! I like to play with feathers.

What's your favorite part of the book?
When they were being tickled with the feather! And he was feeding the fishies.

What do you think of the cover?
It has a feather! And a little boy like me!

Do you want me to read it again?
No thank you

This is an amazing book about a little boy who's brother passed away. He finds a feather one day and says that his brother sent it to him, because it was the most amazing, perfect, and white feather. 
The book goes through why he might have sent him the feather. To say hi? To play with? They take the feather and tickle each other with it, and make a fort and put it at the top.
After a day of playing the feather is no longer bright and white, but it's still an amazing feather.

I think this is a great book for any children who have lost siblings, because he thinks his brother sent it to him. 

Finn's Feather has really adorable illustrations and is written really well. 

The only problem I have is it was very short. I wish it had more about losing a sibling. I think books like this are so important.

We received an ARC version of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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