Hello Leslie Patricelli

I am excited to welcome Leslie Patricelli into our home. Who is Leslie Patricelli? Someone you might want to bring into your home too. Leslie is the author and illustrator of “Higher! Higher!” and “Baby Happy Baby Sad” – two lovely children’s books that I recently received. The books are so bright and colorful that you are aching to open the cover from the moment you get your hands on them.

“Baby Happy Baby Sad” is a great board book. From cats to ice cream cones, from baths to playing in the mud, this book explores many situations that make a baby happy and the opposite situation that makes a baby sad. I loved the bright colors and simple graphics that Leslie chose in this book. To go along with this board book, Leslie has also written and illustrated the following toddler books: “No No Yes Yes,” “Binky,” “Blankie,” “BIG Little,” “Quiet Loud,” and “Yummy Yucky.”These books have been a great hit with toddlers with more than 400,000 copies in print.

Because Cameron is 8, we enjoyed “Higher! Higher!” the most as Cameron immediately thought board book = baby book. “Higher! Higher!” is the story of adorable little girl in pig tails swinging and wanting her dad to push her “higher.” Throughout the book, we see just how high she goes – can Dad push her higher than a giraffe? Or even into space? With a little girl that loves to swing in my house, we really did enjoy this story by Leslie and again I loved the images that she chose for this book – it was as much fun to look at this book as it was to read it.

After enjoying both of these books, Cameron and I made the decision to take them to the public library the next time we go to town and donate them for more children to enjoy.

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