what to read

To see what I and my family are reading, go here http://celestiashumway.com/ You will find lots of recommendations for picture books for your kids, family read alouds, and books for you to read to nourish your mommy brain. This is my old blog where I started blogging in 2008. I have decided to dedicate it strictly to books. It will also be a great record of the books we read! I would also love to be your friend on http://goodreads.com where I have more reviews of books than on the old blog.

For studying the scriptures I sometimes use the web site http://scriptures.byu.edu. It is a database of all the commentaries that LDS Church leaders have made about any scripture. It’s so cool!

I also love my friend Shauna Bird Dunn’s book loving blog here http://bookdivabooks.blogspot.com/

Here are more resources to find picture book recommendations:

Chinaberry’s web site
Planet Esme
Recommendations from me and my readers
A Christian children’s picture book review blog
Teaching With Picture Books web site
Candlewick Press web site
The Good Reading Guide’s list of picture books
here is a list of books from Sally Clarkson, of the WholeHearted catalog

1. When I Was Young In the Mountains (Cynthia Rylant)
2. When the Relatives Came (Cynthia Rylant)
3. Bunny Bungalow (Cynthia Rylant)
4. Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)
5. Roxaboxen (Barbara Cooney)
6. Only Opal (Barbara Cooney)
7. The Brambly Hedge Series (Jill Barklem)
8. The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Thomas Locker)
9. The Young Artist (Thomas Locker)
10. Fritz and the Beautiful Horses (Jan Brett)
11. The Bear Who Heard Crying (Natalie Kinsey Warnock)
12. All the Places to Love (Patricia MacLachlan)
13. A Song for Lena (Hilary Horder Hippely)
14. Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
15. Make Way For the Ducklings (Robert McCloskey)