In the Way: January 21-February 2 , 2008

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
Backyard Birds of Winter by Carol Lerner
Winter is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer
Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root
Tracks in the Snow by Wong Herbert Yee
Winter Barn by Peter Parnall
In the Snow: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George
North Country Night by Daniel SanSouci
The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
The Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews
Usborne-The Snowy Day by Anna Milbourne and Elena Temporin
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Snow by Marion Dane Bauer
Magic School Bus Sleeps for the Winter Scholastic Level 2 Reader
Magic School Bus Arctic Adventure Scholastic Level 2 Reader
The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll
Winter Poems compiled by Barbara Rogasky
Stranger in the Woods by Carl Sams II and Jean Stoick
Magic School Bus Lost in the Snow Scholastic Level 2 Reader
The Snow Storm by Heather Amery
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

Introducing, "In the Way"

Otherwise known as our learning table aka: the coffee table. I have noticed that R7 really reads a ton when I lay out themed books on our coffee table. So, that's what I do. This week we've got books related to The Giraffe that Walked to Paris and Cricket in Times Square. There are books on NY, books on crickets, Egypt, Mediterranean Sea, and of course giraffes.

So, this will be a new category and possibly and item in the sidebar. I recently found a blog where she does just that. I like the idea so I'll snag it, but I feel guilty stealing the name "On the coffee Table". When I said this to Dan he said we should call it, "In the Way of My Husband's Feet" Well because of course the books are in his way when he watches TV and he wants to put his feet up!

So, I'm going to shorten it to ... In the Way. If you have a better, more clever name feel free to share it here in the comment section.

So, In the Way this week is:

New York, New York The Big Apple from A to Z by Laura Krauss Melmed
New York The Empire State by Margery Facklam and Peggy Thomas
Chirping Crickets by Melvin Berger
Cricketology
A Historical Album of NY by Monique Avakin
Scholastic World Atlas
My Visit to the Zoo by Aliki
Egypt by tom Streissguth
Egypt Faces and Places by Patrick Ryan
Children of the World Egypt by Valerie Weber (senior editor)
Usborne First Encyclopedia of Animals by Paul Dowswell
The M World Book Encyclopedia