Time for Craziness, Little Keats, Little Keats

So remember when I was gently and quietly reading Beatrix Potter to Keats? Yeah, no more. Books send Keats into a tizzy like nothing I've ever seen. He loves them! He squeaks and yelps, swinging his arms around in a whirlwind of activity that ends with complete surrender to enthusiastic fury. Indeed, eventually we actually have to take away and hide the book because Keats becomes so furious with his at-the-moment inability to grasp the heavy book that he begins to scream and cry. Reading as a before bed activity? I don't think so... not yet anyway. Oh, and he especially goes crazy for those about/with animals.

So despite Keats' mellow disposition, there are, so far, two things that he is absolutely impatient about: books and food. Sound like anyone you know? He is indeed his father's son.

Time to invest in some more board books. Oooo, padded too. Have you seen those? They're awesome. Makes me kind of wish my books were padded. Kind of cozy. (Not that I've invested much of my free time in reading books, but that day will come... Right? I hope so.)

Some of our favorite Children's Books

I Love You Because You're You by Liza Baker

Eric Carle books

Bill Peet books

Paddington books

Peter Rabbit books

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

A.A. Milne books

Beatrix Potter books

Maurice Sendak books

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Ezra Jack Keats books

Babar! books

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Arnold Lobel books (especially Frog and Toad)

Richard Scarry books

Jon J. Muth books (especially Zen Shorts)

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Lois Ehlert books (especially Planting a Rainbow and Eating the Alphabet)

Graeme Base books

and obviously...

Dr. Seuss books