Storytime Selections

Storytime before nap today included a couple of Adelaide's latest favorites ...
On our left is a copy of a delightful Charlie and Lola book by Lauren Child. For those of you who are familiar with this Brit-Kid-Lit duo, you'll smile to hear that Charlie and Lola is Adelaide's favorite and her best. The C&L series of books and cartoons based on the books center around the day-to-day happenings in the petite lives of Charlie and his little sister Lola. Every story and episode begins with Charlie saying, "I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny," but when you ask Adelaide how the stories begin she'll say, "I have this little sister Lola. She is smooth and very funny." Those Londonish accents from the T.V. show are sometimes tricky.
On our right is a macabre non-fiction history book entitled Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker. The book chronicles the work of a group of forensic historians and archaeologists, unearthing the bones of early American settlers from Seventeenth Century. The book is full of glossy, full-color photos of digs. The photos include graphic images of skeletons half-peeking out of their graves as archaeologists carefully brush the dust from their noses and survey sites in pith helmets and khahis. Adelaide clutches this book close to her chest and says, "I'm going to be an Ark-Le-Ologist."
Pause.
"After I'm a mom, and a dentist, and a doctor."

While Adelaide and I discuss the finer points of ArkLeOlogy, Henry is happiest left to his own devices in Adelaide's room. There are no silly baby toys here!





