The boys have an absolute love for reading books as one of our nightly routines.  There is a stack of books by the bed and they both love being able to chose what will be read for the evening.  They simply adore the books with bright illustrations and they love a good story.  They are huge fans of the Trucktown series of books by Jon Scieszka and they love all fun characters.

We recently had the opportunity to review a couple of books by David Gordon. He is one of the illustrators for the Trucktown books, so naturally I was really excited to read these books to the boys. David Gordon has done conceptual work for the Pixar/Disney blockbusters Toy Story, Toy Story II, and A Bug’s Life.

Smitten is an adorable tale of an unlikely meet up of a sock and a mitten.  Both of them are missing their other half.  They set off in a big city to find their other halves and wind up getting in some predicaments and discover along the way that they were meant for each other.  What a terrific way to introduce to your children friendship through diversity.  I won’t give away the whole story but it is such a great book and my boys love it.  They already know what is happening on each page and like to sit and read the book to my husband and I (in their own words, of course).  I made them their own sock and mitten and drew faces on them and they like to act out the book.