What is Ezri reading?

Ezri really enjoys turning the pages and looking at the book Get That Lunch Box by Donna Taylor.  It is a phonics reader I picked up for free somewhere and it features Clifford the Big Red Dog.  I think it is her like of the color red and her advancing abilities turning the pages of non-board books that make this a favorite rather than any literary appeal.  She doesn’t actually want it read to her.  She just wants to turn pages and carry it around with her.

Where’s My Sweetie Pie? by Ed Emberley is a book Ezri enjoys having read to her.  She also seems to want it read from front to back.  She sits for the whole thing and lifts the flaps on each page.  On each page the reader lifts flaps looking for the sweetie pie.  “Behind this log?  It’s a happy frog! But where’s my sweetie pie?”  A log shaped flap covers a happy frog as one would expect.  The final page features a locket in a pocket and inside the locket is a mirror and inside the mirror Ezri can see that she is my sweetie pie.  She tends to kiss herself on in the mirror (or maybe lick, but it’s a friendly gesture).  This book is a nice concept well executed with simple flaps and bright illustrations.

What Am I? a Look & See book from Sterling Publishing.  It’s all about the concentric holes that decrease in size with each page that create the eyes of the animals in this book.  Ezri’s little fingers love feeling the holes and poking through them.  The stylized animals channel a bit of a 70s vibe for me.  Ezri likes to hoo-hoo on the owl page and hiss on the snake page.   It is a guessing book with a riddle on one side of the spread and the animal on the other.  The riddles are pleasantly written and readable.  This one has been read and played with mulitple times.