Valentine's Day Book Review

I just finished teaching Sydney's preschool with her and three other friends.  The theme was hearts and Valentine's Day.  We had a good time looking at different shaped hearts and finding the BIGGEST one and the smallest one.  We also found different colored hearts around the room.  At the end of the class we played Heart Bingo and read some "hearty" Valentine books (haha, dorky pun intended).  The kids really enjoyed the books so I thought I would write a little review on each of them...making this my Children's Book Review DEBUT! :-D

Little Mouse's Big Valentine by Thacher Hurd-- Little Mouse makes a valentine so big that he's having a hard time finding someone who will accept it.  He then embarks on quite an adventure trying to find the right person to give it to, using his great big valentine as various modes of transportation.  When he meets another little mouse named Gloria he finds friendship, and together they are able to come up with a solution to his great big valentine predicament.  This is a cute story with a nice ending that reminds us that sometimes it takes a long, hard journey to find the right person, but in the end it's worth it.

Valentine Surprise by Corinne DeMas-- Lily is a sweet little girl who is trying to make a Valentine for her mother.  Each day of the week she sits at her little craft table by the window with her Valentine's paper and a pair of scissors and she tries to cut out a perfectly shaped heart.  Poor Lily finds flaws in each of her hearts- too skinny, too curvy, etc- and she hides them all under her bed.  By Valentine's Day she is distraught because she still doesn't have a perfect heart to give to her mom.  In the end, Lily learns from her compassionate mother that true perfection comes from within.  Very cute story and also lends itself well to teaching about different shapes.