Good Night, Gorilla

This is my daughter's and was one of my son's favorite Bedtime books.  Good Bedtime books are hard to find, and this is one of the better ones.  The illustrations are great, and the storyline is cute.


"When a weary zookeeper says goodnight to the animals, he doesn't notice the gorilla steal his keys. Before you know it, there's a parade of animals following the zookeeper home and snuggling up in his comfortable house - even in his bed! With spare text and humorous, vibrant illustrations, this picture book will delight any little one who has tried to escape his own bedtime."


http://store.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay_Good+Night,+Gorilla_14626_-1_10052_10051

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap...

‎"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." 
Robert Louis Stevenson

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

This is one of my daughter's favorite board books at the moment.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

"is a children's picture book, published in 1967, written and illustrated by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle, and the book is designed to help toddlers associate colors and meanings to objects. The narrator asks various animals what they see with the response usually being another animal, the respondent is then asked what they themselves see, and the process is repeated. It features a Brown Bear, Red Bird, Yellow Duck, Blue Horse, Green Frog, Purple Cat, White Dog, Black Sheep, a Goldfish, a Teacher, and Students."

Some more Favorite Books of my son's from middle to late grade school

Best Book Recommendations for 4th to 6th Graders
Some more "Favorite Books" of my son's from middle to late grade school.

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

That is it for now.
Sean Surlow
San Clemente, California

The Great and Funny Books of Roald Dahl

Hello Everyone,

We have had good luck with Roald Dahl books. They are both entertaining to children and adults, which is an added bonus.

His two most famous books probably are "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James in the Giant Peach."


Below is a list of his books that my son also liked…
· Witches
· BFG
· Matilda
· George's Marvelous Medicine
· The Magic Finger
· Fantastic Mr. Fox
· Danny, The Champion of the World

Have A Good Week Everyone,
Sean Surlow
San Clemente, California

The "Goosebumps" Series

When my son was nine, he was a big fan of the "Goosebumps" series by R.L. Stine. He liked the thrills and the monsters in them.

He mostly learned how to read on Dr. Seuss and "The Magic Tree House" series in Second Grade.

As for a source of books, I got him going to used bookstores early. I think that this created a love of hunting for books in him, which turned into a love of collecting and reading them later on.

We would trade in garage cleanouts of books to the used book store, and I would pick up stacks of books off curbs after garage sales when people wanted to get rid of them. We would turn in all these scrounged up books to the used bookstore. They would give us credit, and we could buy him books for around 25 cents each. We also had good luck in finding high-quality and interesting inexpensive books at "The Friends of the Library" and at Garage Sales.

Have a Good Week,
Sean Surlow

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw
upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957


This great quote is by the woman who wrote The Little House on the Prairie books.

I keep it in my wallet to remind me to keep an open mind and to have patience in dealing with people.


Have A Great Week,
Sean Surlow