December 2022 Book Reading List

It’s a new month - and a new year! That means, with this post, I’ve been doing these book reading lists for five years.

I read 33 different books to my son - and 12 different books to my daughter.

And I finished two books for myself.

Books I Read to My Children

Books I Read to My Son

Here are the 33 books I read to my son (and yes, I read two different Disney Dumbo books to him):

• A Little Spot of Anger
• Big Brave Daddy
• Counting to Bananas
• Disney Dumbo
• Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Story Reader
• Disney the Lion King
• Elmo’s Christmas Colors
• Elmo’s Little Glowworm
• Go Back to Sleep
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold and illustrated by James Marshall
• Goofy and the Tiger Hunt
• Grover’s Animal Adventure
• How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• I Really Like Slop!
• I Will Surprise My Friend!
• Little People Let’s Go to the Farm
• Look and Find Batman
• Marvel Avengers Happy Holidays!
• Merry Christmas, PJ Masks!
• Oh, Baby, the Places You’ll Go! A Book to be Read in Utero
• PJ Masks Christmas Wishes
• Percy and the Little Goat
• Pickles to Pittsburgh
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Santa’s Surprise Book
• The Berenstain Bears Give Thanks
• The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party
• The Cat in the Hat’s Great Big Flap Book
• There was an Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
• Tiny the Snow Dog
• Walt Disney’s Story of Dumbo
• Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?

Books I Read to My Daughter

My daughter recently has become obsessed with the Cat in the Hat. I’m not entirely sure - it just started with her saying it’s her favorite book.

We did end up getting her a Cat in the Hat doll for Christmas - plus the sequel the Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

So here are the 12 books I read to my daughter:

• Elmo’s Christmas Colors
• Grover’s Animal Adventure
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• Kindness Grows
• Paw Patrol Train Trouble
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• The Biggest Christmas Tree Ever
• The Cat in the Hat
• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
• The Cat in the Hat’s Great Big Flap Book
• Walt Disney’s Story of Dumbo
• Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?

The Books I Read for Me

As stated earlier, I read two books.

The first book was the parenting book Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic. The author uses “spirited” as a more positive adjective than “strong-willed” or “stubborn.” And my son is outgoing and energetic - he’s extroverted in nature, compared to my introversion. And this exhausts me at time. My daughter is more quiet, like me, but she does have her moments. After all they are four and three.

The other book I read, The Cuckoo’s Egg, is technically a non-fiction book, but I’m considering it fiction in terms of my fiction-then-non-fiction reading habit. It’s a narrative, told in the first person (in fact, it’s something that happened to the very author who wrote the book, Cliff Stoll) about the one of the first, if not the first, documented case of espionage through networks such as the Internet. I honestly had a hard time putting it down.

2022 - and five years of these posts - is now in the books. Here’s to another five!