Printables featuring my daughter’s favorite book characters?! Perfect for this little girl.
Lilly, Chester, Angelina, Little Bear, Winnie the Pooh, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, Frances…
Every day when we read their stories, we visit with them. To my daughter, these storybook characters are dear friends.
I’m thrilled she loves and admires these wonderful characters instead of drooling over Disney characters or Princesses. (Although that stage is probably just around the corner, knock on wood.)
The best part about these printables? They are free. So many children’s illustrators have wonderful websites and many of them contain fantastic games and coloring pages to download and print to share.
Here are some of our favorites:
+ Kevin Henkes, author/illustrator of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
+ Jan Brett, author/illustrator of The Mitten
+ Eric Carle, author/illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
+ Laura Numeroff, author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
+ Tomie dePaola, author and illustrator of Strega Nona
by Lois Ehlert (vibrant illustrations and a simple story depicting the process of planning, planting, and picking flowers in a garden that children can easily relate to)
by Kevin Henkes (an imaginative tale about what a little girl would have in her very own garden, such as morning glories that stayed open all night, jellybean trees, flowers that grew back as soon as you picked them (above), and all carrots would be invisible because “I don’t like carrots.”)
by Brooklyn Botanic Garden (a must-read book for family gardeners, full of gardening activities introducing nature’s cycles and earth’s ecology)
(not directly about gardening per se but a beautifully illustrated alphabet book about fruits and vegetables; great inspiration for deciding what to plant in the garden!)
