Mother Bruce & Are You My Mother?

I thought about saving these titles for Mother's Day but once I started flipping through the pages, I couldn't help myself and had to read them this week! 

Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins is absolutely adorable and one of my favorites to read. It's about a bear who was preparing some eggs to eat on the stove when the eggs hatch, mistaking Bruce the bear as their mother. It does have some funny comments about being organic and other little quirks that are more for the adults, but the kids look right past it and see nothing but silly babies and a big black bear!

Most days the kids are wiggly and chatty but they were so into the books this week! They were laughing and having a great time.

And can you believe that Are You My Mother was published in 1960?! Can you believe that a book without bright coloring and new pictures can still be loved and enjoyed by kids today! Well beeeeelieve it! 

The kids were cracking up when they heard all the animals and the airplane and the SNORT! being asked if they were the mother to this baby bird! The mistaken motherly identities of these two go hand in hand.