Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. This is a great time to get some fun reading in with some favorite Valentine books as well as watch some movies. Be sure to check your library for the books and movies. If you want to purchase them you can purchase them through the Amazon link provided and you can get many of them for free shipping with certain restrictions. Several of the books even have a Buy 3 get 1 free deal. Look at the links for more details.
Be sure to check out the next few Tuesday Tips and Creative Nanny Wednesdays for other Valentine Day Activites and Entertainment options.
Movies:
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (DVD) (1975)
Winnie the Pooh – A Valentine for You: Special Edition
Mickey & Minnie’s Sweetheart Stories (DVD) (2004)
Be My Valentine – Love, Barney (DVD) (2005)
Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends – Happy Heartwood Day (DVD) (2005)
Clifford The Big Red Dog – King Clifford / Be My Big Red Valentine (2002)
Alvin and the Chipmunks – A Chipmunk Valentine (DVD)
Lady & The Tramp
THE ARISTOCATS (1970)
The Love Bug
Books:
Barney’s Happy Valentines’ Day
by Gus davis, June Valentine-Ruppe, Illustrated by June Valentine, Juan Ruppe
Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney, Illustrated by Anita Jeram
The Story of Valentine’s Day
by Nancy Skarmeas, Stacy Pickett-Venturi, and Stacy Venturi-Pickett
Where Is Baby’s Valentine?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
by Karen Katz
Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! (If You Give…)
Valentine Mice!
by Bethany Roberts
Valentine’s Day Fun! (Max and Ruby)
by Penguin Group
The Great Valentine’s Day Mix-up
by Saxton Moore
Thomas in Town: Valentine’s Day in Vicarstown
by Richard Courtney
The Biggest Valentine Ever
by Steven Kroll and Jeni Bassett
Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine
by Herman Parish and Lynne Avril
The Night Before Valentine’s Day
by Natasha Wing
Arthur’s Valentine
by Marc Brown
Arthur’s Valentine Countdown (Board Book with Stickers, Flaps to Lift, and a Punch-Out Valentine) by Marc Brown
Arthur’s Great Big Valentine (I Can Read Book 2)
by Lillian Hoban
by Miriam Cohen, illustrated by Lillian Hoban
Clifford’s First Valentine’s Day
by Norman Bridwell
Clifford’s Valentine’s Day
by Norman Bridwell
Clifford’s Valentines
by Norman Bridwell
Dinosaur Valentines (Read With Me)
by Liza Donnelly
Disney’s Winnie the Pooh’s Valentine
by Bruce Talkington, Illustrated bt John Kurtz
Richard Scarry’s Best Holiday Books Ever Be My Valentine!
by Richard Scarry
Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine
by Weinman Marjorie Sharmat
Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink
by Diane de Groat
The Valentine Cat
by Ann Whitehead Nagda and Stephanie Roth
Valentine Cats
by Jean Marzollo, illustrated by Hans Wilhelm
Day It Rained Hearts
by Felicia Bond
Ages 9-12
by Geronimo Stilton
Walt Disney’s Valentine’s Classics (Mickey Mouse Classics)
by Carl Barks, Walt Kelly, Daan Jippes, and Floyd Gottfredso
Cupid Doesn’t Flip Hamburgers
by Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thorton Jones
We hope you enjoy these suggestions! Let us know which books and movies you all enjoyed!