Letter Q Booklist
Here's a list of our few favorite Letter Q Books:
Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood: I love this book, because it teaches all kinds of different ways we can feel. Each emotion is paired with an animal and illustration. Quick as a cricket, slow as a snail, mean as a shark, nice as a bunny, brave as a tiger, shy as a clam, etc. My boys (ages 3 & 1) loved the pictures and simple text.
Little Quack by Lauren Thompson: This was the most requested book to read this week! My boys asked every day for me to read this to them. It's about a mother who invites her children to come paddle on the water with her. One by one each duck jumps into the water, including Little Quack, who is the most timid to go. It's also an early intro into subtracting and addition.
Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin: My three especially loved this book, because he loves to be tricky like this little duck. The book is about a farmer who needs to leave town, so he puts his brother in charge of the farm. The farmer leaves notes for his brother, but the duck found a pencil and paper and changed the notes around to say things like, "Tuesday night is pizza night. Not the frozen kind. And the hen's don't like anchovies." This book is entertaining.
Click, Clack Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cronin: This book goes through each letter of the alphabet and relates it to something on the farm. The letters are all in lowercase, which was great for my three. My one just enjoyed the pictures.
The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau: This story is long, but my kids listened a day while they were eating lunch. It's about a kind who is greedy and loves to receives gifts. No matter how many gifts he receives, he never feels like he has enough. He comes across an older woman who makes the most amazing quilts and asks her for one, but she refuses his offer, because these quilts are for the poor. She advises him to give away all he has to get one of the quilts. The illustrations are bright and beautiful.
The Queen with Bees in her Hair by Cheryl Harness: This book is also lengthy, so I read it to them a day we were eating lunch. It's about a queen who wants to impress her subjects by putting beautiful flowers in her hair. When the queen went out on her weekly carriage ride, the bees buzz around her head. She orders all the bees to be captured and put across the wall. A similar thing happens the next week, when hummingbirds fly around her head and the birds are sent across the wall. However, when the next Spring comes along the kingdom notices there are no flowers. 
