Please, Malese!

We were driving away from the library the other day and my son asks, "Mom!  Did you give back the book with the fuzzy green shoes and the cat?"

I asked back, "Which book?"

"The one! The book with the two shoes and the cake?"

"O-o-oh, you mean Please, Malese?"

"Ya, that one!"

I informed my four year old that we had to take turns with books from the library so yes I had returned it.  I was then informed that we had to get it again soon because it was his FAVORITE book EVER!

My kids' "favorites"  change with the days but the fact that my son loved this book so much thrilled me because I really do love it too!  The main character uses his wits to get a lot of things for nothing.  Malese, is so entertaining about it though you love him and hate him all at once!  Truth be told, I don't know if I dislike Malese because he gets stuff for nothing or if I dislike that I am just not that clever.  It is extremely entertaining to read though!

Amy MacDonald does an excellent job of turning this Haitian tale into an amazing bedtime story.  It is meant for children ages four to eight but it was usually the two year old in my family that was grabbing it off the shelf first at story time.  The way Amy writes the ending I think every mother can relate to.  Would that we could all go to jail for a day and trick our captors into putting our houses in order just so we would leave!

Emily Lisker paints such bright and lively pictures that it is hard not to feel energized by them.  There is a cool cat in the pictures too and my kids loved finding/pointing him out on each page.  According to my son, the shoes are even drawn so well they appear to be "fuzzy"!

Show how clever you are and go check this one out!