Adorable Mother-Child Read Aloud

Books Kids Will Love RATING: BB
Book: Little Goose
Author: Davis Mraz
Illustrator: Marot Apple
Recommended for ages 2-5
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This is an adorable book for the child off to daycare, preschool, or summer camp for the first time. It celebrates the joy of returning home to a mother's love.
In the book, Little Goose has forgotten something important and sets out on a journey to remember it. He asks his friends turtle, frog, and mouse for help. Only when Little goose returns home to his mama's soft wing does he remember that this is what he was missing all along. Mama makes him "cozy and comfy and happy all over, from side to side and bottom to top."
The colored pencil illustrations are fabulous. Very colorful and appealing to young children.
Apple is a local illustrator from Shelburne Falls, here in Massachusetts. She has illustrated more than 50 books.
I give this book a BB rating, due to cost in this sluggish economy. The rating would increase to BBBB in a paperback form.
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Tricyle Press
Published in April 2009
32 pages
$15.99, hardcover