May 2021 Book Reading List

Another month gone. We’re already about halfway through the year. Amazing. It’s time to write about the books I read last month in May.

Books I Read to My Children

Books I Read to My Son

I read forty-two different books to my son last month:

• 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo
• 5 Little Apples
• All By Myself by Mercer Mayer
• Antiracist Baby
• Baby Signs for Mealtime
• Big Boys Use the Potty!
• Bright Baby Colors ABC Numbers
• Charley Harper’s Animal Alphabet
• City Dog, Country Frog
• Cows Can’t Fly
• Disney’s The Jungle Book Smart and Strong
• Elmo’s Favorite Places
• Elmo’s Learning Adventure Animal Alphabet
• First 1000 Dinosaur Words
• Giraffes Can’t Dance
• Good Night Little Sister
• Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
• Grandpa and Me by Karen Katz
• Grover’s Own Alphabet
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?
• How the Rattlesnakes Got Its Rattle
• I Love You More
• I Love You, Stinky Face
• If I Were a Princess…
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake
• Just Like My Brother
• Just a Snowman
• Little People Let’s Go to the Zoo
• Max and the Tag-Along Moon
• Murray’s Music Book
• My First Superman Book Touch and Feel!
• Neon Leon
• Nothing-to-Do Puppy
• Papa, please get the moon for me
• Simon Says… Roar Like a Lion!
• Snow by Roy McKie and P.D. Eastman
• Stamp ‘n’ Sing Sing-Along Silly Songs
• Star Wars ABC
• The Very Busy Spider
• Waggers
• Whose Tools?

Books I Read to My Daughter

I only read sixteen different books to my daughter:

• 5 Little Apples
• All By Myself by Mercer Mayer
• Baby Signs for Mealtime
• Brainy Baby 123s
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Daytime Nighttime
• Dr. Suess’s ABC An Amazing Alphabet Book
• Elmo’s Learning Adventure Animal Alphabet
• I Love My Puppy
• Machines
• My First Superman Book Touch and Feel!
• Noisy Baby Animals
• Ten Black Dots
• The Bug Book
• The Grouchy Ladybug
• Way Out in the Desert

The Books I Read for Me

Last month I read the first two books in the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Despite being a kid in the 90s (I was born in 1984) I never read them back in the day. I do remember my mom reading them (out loud!) to my little brother - he was born in 1992.

I bit of research shows the first book was originally published in 1998 (in the US). That would have made him five for most of the year. I’m not sure when my mom started reading them to him when he was five, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

I have seen the movies, so I know some of the plot. But I’ve forgotten enough that I can enjoy what’s happening.

I borrowed these two books through Amazon’s Prime Reading program. If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can try Amazon Prime with a 30-Day free trial. There’s also Prime Discounted Monthly Offering if you qualify, as well as a Prime Student 6-month Trial if you have a dot-edu email address.

If you’ve been reading these book-reading lists for the past several months, you’ll know I’ve adopted an alternating fiction-non-fiction reading pattern. I kept up with this policy last month, meaning I didn’t read those two Harry Potter books back-to-back.

In between, I read The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End from Hourly History. I wrote about Hourly History last month: Hourly History publishes a bunch of quick reads meant to be read in one hour. They also give away their books often. You can either look at their Amazon page or check out their blog to see what books they have that are free.

What have you read in the past month? Be sure to let me know in the comments below!