Book Review: Picture Book

How to Clean Your Room in Ten Easy Steps by Jennifer LaRue Huget

This delightful picture book geared for kindergarten through 2nd grade children, has quickly become one of our new favorites. Not exactly a book filled with valid cleaning tips for cleaning you room, this book will give you whimsical tips, like don’t answer your mother until she calls out all three of your names or, give your moldy pizza crusts to your sister. Or better yet, line up all your stuffed animals on your bed and make little blankets for them out of tissue. It’s a silly portrait of what kids dread the most, picking up their room.

Get your headphones ready!

Have you checked-out our audio section lately? The New Lenox Public Library has several ways for you to listen to your favorite books. Of course there are many books on CD and cassette tape to choose from, but we also have Playaways (pre-loaded portable audiobooks, just add headphones!) and Audiobooks you can download to your computer.

Audio books are great motivational tools to help all readers improve their listening and comprehension skills. They may also increase vocabulary and help children learn the proper way to pronounce difficult words. More importantly audio books are an engaging and pleasing activity suited for the whole family.

Here are a couple of our favorite titles:

Available on CD

Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park (The Complete Collection)
Audio CD J F PAR

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne (Books 1-43)
Audio CD J F OSB

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling
Audio CD J F ROW

Available on Playaway

The Giver by Louis Lowry
Playaway J F LOW

The 39 Clues (Books 1-9)
Playaway J F THI

Available as an Audiobook

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
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Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O’Connor
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Books with CD’s

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
CD BOOK BRO

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
CD BOOK CRO

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
CD BOOK ZIO

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
CD BOOK TAB