We read:
- One Rainy Day by Valeri Gorbachev, twice before breakfast, once per parent, though I am pretty sure only I knew that Reid had already had it read to her when Ken started. He will read just about anything she brings him, though he reserves the right to complain, but he much prefers the books with straight storylines rather than those which are heavily repetitious;
- Busy Witch by Bettina Paterson, a simple book about a little witch’s day but Reid keeps choosing it; and
- The Fire Station by Robert Munsch, what can I say? The fascination with firefighters continues.
At Melissa’s we read:
- Follow the Silver Trail by Keith Faulkner, an interesting book with a variety of animals looking for who has eaten their food but the ending is a bit weird with the snail saying something about not realizing it was someone else’s food he’d eaten but he was hungry. There was no real resolution of the dramatic tension but Reid didn’t seem to mind;
- What Will You Wear, Jenny Jenkins? The book is based on a traditional song that I vaguely knew but the line “And I’ll buy me a roldy-foldy, tildy-toldy …” tripped my tongue every time and made we wonder about the song because the second half of the “I can’t wear …” verse doesn’t make sense to me;
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae, which was a bit scary; and - Good Morning, Sam by Marie-Louise Gay, which I liked even better than the one where Sam and Stella are at the seashore without an adult.
Back home, even though it was late, late at night, Reid sweet-talked Ken into:
- Yuck! Stuck in the Muck by Corinne Demas, with many words that end in “uck”; and
- The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton.