Monthly Book Roundup - What we have been reading in March

Each month I write about which books we have been reading during the month. I usually introduce Lily to 4 or 5 new books each month while at the same time reading some of our favourites. We have story time each night and always read 2-4 stories, depending on how tired she is. 

You can read all the other book roundups from the last 2 years here. 

This month we didn't really have a theme. Easter has kind of fallen at the end of the month and so it didn't feel right to start introducing easter books to her at the start of March. Especially as it has still been snowing. So I let Lily choose a selection from her books and these are what she chose.

1. Dylan the Teacher by Guy Parker-Rees 

Lily is a huge fan of Dylan and I have a feeling we may need to buy all of his books. Lily has read Dylan the Doctor before and so she was delighted that there was a new Dylan book for her to read. This story is all about a group of children animals and they are all role playing. In this one Dylan is the teacher and his friends are the students. But as Dylan tries to teach things, he realises that its very tricky to teach, and some of his lessons fail. In the end he finds the perfect lesson for them all to do and they all play happily. One of the things about the Dylan books is that they have some repetition in them. In this one, Dylan rings the school bell and so you shout "Ding a Ling a Ling" as he does. Lily loved that part of the story. I would say that Dylan was Lily's favourite out of this months bunch of books. I was sent this from the publisher Scholastic but you can find the Dylan books online. 

2. Celestine Drama Queen by Penny Ives

I would say we probably read this book the least out of the lot. I don't think it related to Lily too much and although she did enjoy it, I wouldn't say it was one of her favourites. But this story would be perfect if you have a little dancer or performer in the family as thats exactly what all this story is about.
Celestine loves to perform. So much that she takes it into her every day life and she must have a special breakfast and must wear her tiara to school. It is about to be the school play and Celestine has the biggest part. But when she gets on stage she gets scared and can't sing. So instead she decides to do what she does best and dance. It is a great story and mums will relate to the drama queen parts that Celestine plays out. You can pick this book up online. 

3. The Mouse Who Wasn't Scared by Petr Horacek 

I am really starting to love Petr Horacek's books and this one is no different. I really love his illustrations and Lily enjoys the story lines. This book is all about a brave little mouse that decides to adventure out into the woods. His friends warn him not to but mouse says that he isn't scared. On the way he meets all sorts of animals that he should be scared of, but he isn't, and instead wants to play. It's only when he finds a house that he finds something he is scared of when we meets a cat, and this time its the cat that wants to play. But the mouse decides to run home scared. This was my favourite of the bunch to read and we read it quite a bit over the month. The only thing I would say about the book is that I was disappointed there was only one flap to lift in it, as for something that describes itself as a lift the flap book, I expected more. You can find out where to buy this book here. 

4. Dangerous by Tim Warnes 

The first thing that was exciting about this book for Lily, was that it was all about stickers and it even came with 100 free stickers. The story is about Mole who loves to label things. He writes out his labels wherever he goes and sticks them to things he see's. One day he comes across a crocodile. But he wasn't sure what it was, so he decides to start putting descriptive words on this large green thing he found. Soon the crocodile yawns and scares the mole so he decides it needs a Dangerous label on it. But as he creeps up to stick it on, the crocodile wakes up. But instead of eating Mole, he eats the labels which makes mole displeased. Mole makes the crocodile cry and soon crocodile feels bad for eating the labels and so makes his own label saying sorry. Mole forgives the crocodile and decides to make a label to place over the sorry label saying friend. It really is a nice story and I love that they make friends in the end. I won this book in a competition but you can pick it up online.

Which of the above books do you like the sound of the best?