August 2021 Book Reading List

Quite a month. I read fifty-four different books to my son, thirteen different books to my daughter, and two books for myself.

Books I Read to My Children

Books I Read to My Son

It helps that my son loves to be read to. Who can resist a three-year-old bringing you a book and asking “Can you read this book to me?”

And although he’s not literate yet, he likes to read. Or at least pretend to read.

Here’s the 54 different books I read to him last month:

• A Perfect Picnic
• Baby Einstein Neighborhood Animals
• Baby Mickey’s Nap
• Bambi’s Big Surprise
• Bert & Ernie’s First Book of Opposites
• Bible Stories A Touch & Feel Book
• Big Enough for a Bed
• Chicka Chicka ABC
• Counting Vehicles
• Cows Can’t Fly
• Daddy Hugs 1 2 3
• Disney Frozen Look and Find
• Dragons Love Tacos
• Frog in the Kitchen Sink
• Good Night, Little Dragons
• Harry the Dirty Dog
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?
• How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?
• How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?
• I Love My Daddy Because…
• I Love You, Stinky Face
• I Spy Little Hearts
• If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
• In Search of the Amazing Dinosaurs
• It’s the Bear!
• Just Going to the Dentist
• Just In Case You Ever Wonder
• Just Me and My Dad
• Just Me in the Tub
• Just My Friend and Me
• Just a Little Music
• Let’s Imagine at School
• Let’s Imagine on the Farm
• Lines by Sarvinder Naberhaus
• Little People Our Animal Friends
• Llama Llama Mother’s Day Present
• Madison Goes to the Dentist
• Marshall Saves the Day!
• Me Too!
• Potty by Leslie Patricelli
• Read-A-Rebus Tales & Rhymes in Words & Pictures
• The Ear Book
• The Foot Book
• The Kitten Book
• The Lost Dinosaur Bone
• The Nose Book
• The Story of Jesus
• The Tooth Book
• Tiny The Snow Dog
• When the Fly Flew In
• Who? Slide N’ Peek
• Wild About Books
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
• Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?

Books I Read to My Daughter

My daughter likes dinosaurs, dogs, and Elmo. And she likes being read to, as well, but probably not as much as my son.

It probably doesn’t help that he can’t stand someone reading to her without him looking at the book, too.

Here are the 13 different books I read to my daughter last month:

• A Perfect Picnic
• Baby Einstein First Words
• Baby Mickey’s Nap
• Can a Cat Quack?
• Dog Breath The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?
• How Do Dinosaurs Go To Sleep?
• Look at You! A Baby Body Book
• Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
• Oh, Baby! Go, Baby!
• Sesame Street I Can Do It!
• The Jolly Barnyard
• There Were Ten on the Bed

The Books I Read for Me

I read two books - both nonfiction.

The first book I read for work - Oracle Database 12c PL/SQL Programming by Michael McLaughlin.

The second was The 4-Hour Workweek. It wasn’t… as bad as I expected. It did have some decent concepts out there. The first half was more abstract, whereas the second half was very detailed oriented. And the second half was horribly out of date.

If you really want to get an idea of how good or bad this book is, be sure to check out its reviews on Amazon.