Turnover Tuesday - Bonnie

In Turnover Tuesday by Phyllis Root Bonnie Bumble eats five plum turnovers and finds herself "turned over upside down." Chores she was able to do right side up, now result in "milk splashed" and "eggs smashed". Eating the last turnover upside down, solves Bonnie's upside down woes!

Rhyming Dust Bunnies - Ed, Ned, Ted, & Bob

Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas is a silly, rhyming story about four dust bunnies who play a rhyming game while blissfully unaware of the impending vacuum danger.  Well, all except for Bob, who keeps ruining the rhyming streak.

The Line Up Book - Sam

My son loves to line up his cars and other small toys, just like Sam in The Line Up Book by Marisabina Russo.  When Sam's mother calls him for lunch, Sam calls back, "Just a minute" and creates a line of toys from his room to his mom.

Knuffle Bunny Too - Trixie, Sonja

Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems finds Trixie heading to school to share her one and only, completely unique, best friend, Knuffle Bunny with her class.  To her great dismay, her classmate, Sonja has brought another Knuffle Bunny to school!  The bunnies get mixed up and the girls take each others bunny home with them, only to realize it at 2:30 AM.  An exchange is made and the girls are happy to have the correct Knuffle Bunny in their arms.  While it might seem like the girls will remain enemies, they build a friendship on their shared love of their unique, one and only, Knuffle Bunnies.

Corduroy - Lisa

Corduroy by Don Freeman will always be one of my favorite books!  Corduroy is the classic story of Lisa, a little girl who sees the stuffed bear in green overalls and decides that he's just the bear for her, but her mother disagrees because he's missing a button.  That night, Corduroy searches the department store where he lives for his missing button so that someone will buy him.  Lisa comes back the next day and buys him, despite the missing button.

Below - Jack

If you're named "Jack" you have a huge selection of books.  One of my favorites is Below by Nina Crews.  Jack imagines that the stairs in his house are a mountain to climb or cities to explore.  One day, Jack and his best friend/toy, Guy discover a hole in the stairs.  Jack sends Guy in to get a closer look and he ends up getting stuck.  Jack pictures various dangerous situations that Guy might find below the stairs and decides to rescue him.  I love that Jack uses his imagination to transform the everyday into something magical.  Gus, is Jack's younger brother, which is why it is tagged in this post.

The Incredible Book Eating Boy - Henry

My first book for my "That's My Name!" project is The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers.  My son, H was invited to his classmate Henry's birthday party.  We just happened to have borrowed TIBEB from the library at the time.  H was tickled that he knew a real life Henry!  We decided to give Henry TIBEB for his birthday and now I'm obsessed with giving books with characters, authors, illustrators with the same name as the recipient.

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers is about a boy, Henry, who discovers that through eating books, he becomes smarter.  Soon, he is obsessed with consuming books, but it becomes too much and all his knowledge gets jumbled up.  Henry must stop eating books, but he discovers that reading books works almost as well as eating them-- although the bite taken out of the back cover indicates that he indulges from time to time.