All Kinds of Kisses

All Kinds of Kisses. Linda Cress Dowdy. Illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. 2010. Scholastic. 24 pages.


All Kinds of Kisses 
can be the best way
to welcome the moon,
say good night to the day.


Butterfly Kisses
are soft, gentle things.
Flutter your lashes
like butterfly wings.


Eskimo Kisses
come down from the north.
Place nose to nose
and move back and forth.

All Kinds of Kisses is a board book all about kissing. In short verses, different kinds of kissing are described. It's a short book. A simple book. It didn't wow me. But I didn't dislike it either. 

© 2011 Becky Laney of Young Readers

Count My Kisses, Little One

Count My Kisses, Little One. Ruthie May. Illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie. 2010. August 2010. Scholastic. 24 pages.

1 One kiss for baby on baby's nose
2 Two kisses for baby tickling toes
3 Three kisses for baby on teddy's knee
4 Four kisses for baby giggling with glee

Count My Kisses is a counting book for babies. It's very pink, very sweet, very girly. Is it a little too adorable? You'll have to judge for yourself. I liked the very soft, very sweet illustrations. The pinks, the blues, the greens. There is something very soothing, very pleasant about it.

© Becky Laney of Young Readers

Mama's Kiss

Yolen, Jane. 2008. Mama's Kiss. Illustrated by Daniel Baxter.

Rhyming fun about kisses? And it's by Jane Yolen? It's got to be good! This one is fun and playful. The rhyming is quite good--as opposed to some others that are hit and miss--and the subject is just right for sharing with little ones.

Here's how it starts off:

Mama smiles and throws me kisses,
Most land right, but one kiss misses.
Mama says she'll throw another,
It sails off toward Baby Brother.
Baby burps, the kiss goes wide,
Through the window and outside....

Where this kiss goes next....you'll have to read for yourself and see. This book is similar to another one that I read this year. The title of that one I can't quite remember on the spot. But I liked this one even better.

© Becky Laney of Young Readers