I Love You, Blankie

(Typing on phone, so may need to be polished.)

In my family we've always been fond of babbies. My own ‘blankie' being known as “lamb babbie” (that's bab-bee if your curious). So any book that is Linus (Peanuts) or Owen (Kevin Henkes) worthy is a book I'm interested in for my own kiddos.

The rhythmic tone of this lullaby in a book is soothing. The story is imaginative and delighted my girls (as the five year old read it aloud to the three year old) and then they discussed and imagined what their own babbies could be capable of in an adventure. It's a bedtime story that would make Harold proud for adventuring before settling for sleep. Then there is the little child with wind swept hair, too cute and adorable and right on key.

This is fabulous to look at and delightful to read. But the best part is how durable it seems to be! It is a larger board book size (about the size of a medium picture book - dimensions later). The cover is padded and squishy in my favorite way. However the pages are really neat. They are board but not hard, stuff, and unforgiving. They are pliable and turn like real book pages (thinner too), but they are slick and strong enough that I wouldn't hesitate to let my baby son look at this book with us. I think he wouldn't damage it and I think it will last, and for a board book that's saying a lot!

Thanks to LB.

Sometimes you wonder if it's all been said. Then you run across a little story like I Love You, Blankie and you know, happily, there are lots of fabulous stories left to bring to print.

Our main character in this tiny tale goes everywhere with this blanket, flying through the air, over the ocean, to the moon, but, always, always, safely back to a cozy bed.