Feed the Hungry Readers-Builder Edition

A few posts back I wrote about a great find for hungry book lovers-Books Children Love.  We just picked up our first round of holds from the library.  Books on performing plays, recycled trash art, a new-to-us George MacDonald story, and this source of inspiration.

Block Building for Children by Lester Walker:

I’m amazed at the 101 uses of simple wooden blocks since they entered our house 4 children and 8 years ago.  The same set has prompted endless imaginative play(a great toy is one that can become anything you want it to be).  When I saw this book in the list under architecture in Books Children Love, I ordered in for my visual/kinesthetic boy who’s been building roads and tracks since he was 1.  Today the kids and I flipped through it and oohed and aahed at the airport, train station, skyscrapers and other ideas. Warning-this books will cause block envy.  Now we want to double our block capacity and get some of the wedges and curved blocks shown in the book.  On the other hand the kids weren’t too daunted, they looked for something they could pull off and then just did the best they could with what they had.  “Let’s just look through it and then take the ideas and make our own things,” said the 7 year old when faced with the limitations.

Here’s the first of their creations: The Greek Temple(with playmobile gods, of course)

Later there was a house with doors, windows, and several rooms.  I think there were also robbers and a dog shop on the roof, but that wasn’t in the book.

Update: Whoops! I wrote this post late at night and didn’t check my facts.  I didn’t actually find this book in Books Children Love, but instead caught a glance of it on the side bar here.