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My dd thought the obvious would be The Umbrella by Jan Brett, but I'm going to make my selection a sweet book for boys and their daddys:
Up on Daddy's Shoulders by Matt Berry
Very sweet and nice illustrations. A favorite with my little guys .
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MaryM Board Moderator
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Marybeth wrote:
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles and Rod Clement
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Let me just say, I'm going to give you an award, Marybeth - you named a book that ended in a "U"!!!!! Do you know how rare that is??? I was at the library today looking at titles because I had realized some letters are just not going to be used because they are rare at the end of words - "U" was one of them, also "I" or "O" unless you're speaking Italian or Spanish . The most common ending letters by my estimation are A, E, D, N, R, S, T which if you look at our selections so far bears out. A lot of the others can be found fairly frequently - G, H, M, Y. But a few are going to be really tough (and I'm not just talking about Q, V, etc.) By the way, a lot more words end with X than start with it!
"J" is really hard and you wouldn't think that until you start trying to think of words that end in J. V and C also - not so common as endings.
So that's my evening rambling...
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So, Mary, you did a lot more thinking on that, but I was mulling over the same problem -- how there aren't that many words with those endings, and how to incorporate some of the other letters that will never come up!
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I'll take this one and give a title that ends in a letter we haven't had yet.
Sheep in a Jeep - Nancy Shaw
Now a "P".
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Pagoo!!!
Now for "O"
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One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
Sorry, another "E"
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In order to get other letters in, we could make silent E's optional, so in the case of One Morning in Maine, we could go with N or E?
I have a feeling there will be a lot of silent Es.
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Elmer by David McKee.
God bless,
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This is fun. I'll try one more:
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
K is next
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Katy No-Pocket by Emmy Payne (illustrated by H. A. Rey)
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Thundercake by Patricia Polacco
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CrunchyMom wrote:
In order to get other letters in, we could make silent E's optional, so in the case of One Morning in Maine, we could go with N or E?
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That is a brilliant idea, Lindsay. So let's go with silent "e" is optional - use it if you want or use the letter before it. Hey, we might actually be able to find a J of V that way .
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I love that book - would have chosen it for "T" also.
And now I'll implement the silent "e" rule and go with "K" here.
Katy and the Big Snow - Virginia Lee Burton
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Wait for William by Marjorie Flack
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Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Mary-thanks for the nice compliment on the u ending!
I was going to say Elmer !
Marybeth
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We cross-posted! We'll go with yours, Marybeth, either R or E.
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Rainbow Rhino by Peter Sis
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Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall
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Nuts to You!
by Lois Ehlert
For the squirrel lover in you
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"You" - totally a common word that ends in "U" - how did I forget that one??
Speaking of squirrel lovers...I am NOT one at all, in fact I would be the opposite..but gosh darn it there are so many cute squirrel books. Melinda, I think we need a thread for those...
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MaryM wrote:
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Covering my eyes and pretending I did not read that!
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