Last week I talked about summer reading. Yesterday we ventured back to our local library. I was on a quest to find some books to read with my almost first-grader that wouldn’t bore me to tears and that he would enjoy reading as well.
I am just so angry I could spit. Pffft. I’ve been here for nearly 3 years and a sizable chunk of you all come by here regularly to join in on the discussions… Will someone please explain to me why I didn’t know that Mo Willems is writing some crazy great stuff for the learning to read set? Crazy great. Crazy. Great.
Of course I new the name and recognized the titles, I don’t live under a rock (though we are in Maine). I even heard that some were winning awards (slight understatement). But I just hadn’t ever held one. Not one of you grabbed me by the shoulders and screamed in my ear “GET THESE, READ THESE, SHARE THESE -YOU WILL LOVE THEM LIKE CHOCOLATE.” You should know by now that that will get my attention. I am just not sure that I can forgive you without accepting bribes. (I love chocolate and Mo Willems books.)
Clay (6) came home from the library with There Is a Bird on Your Head! and I Am Invited to a Party! We sat in bed, reading alternate pages and seriously laughing our fool heads off. Then Aidan (8) came up, and we made him read them to us and again we howled, our laughter clearly invading the entire neighborhood. But there are a gazillion more Mo Willems books that my deprived young children have not had the pleasure of loving. I wonder what it would cost to buy them all on Amazon tonight? *Sigh* I am a loyal library patron. I will go back tomorrow and see what else they’ve got. And I will beg them to buy them all if they don’t already have them.
And if your kids are coming up on a birthday anytime soon… and the Hatchlings are invited…. you now know exactly what they’ll be getting.
Oh, and I love Mo even more now that I know that he blogs…
What ELSE have you been keeping from me? It will be better for all of us if you tell me now.
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by Megin Hatch
Photo of the cover of the book There’s A Bird On Your head graciously provided through The Fair Use doctrine, some rights reserved.
3 responses so far ↓
Maddy // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:30 am
Elmer’s Colours does it for mine, or rather did a while back.
Because I can never know if their choices will be a flop, I’m the wicked woman that takes all the ‘recommended’ books on the display and stagger home with a sackful.
Surely one of them will be a hit?
Cheers
catnip // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:32 am
I am definitely going to check those out. I must be living under a rock because I’d never even heard of him and we’re at the library all the time. Thanks for the heads up!
Kate // Aug 5, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Click, Clack Moo
Ready Freddy
Duck for President (especially with the elections coming up)
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