Goodnight Moon
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
By Eric Carle; Margaret Wise Brown; By Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
Well in September my daughter was born. I had taken off work about a week before she was supposed to be born. She came about 4 days late. That was good news because it gave me the opportunity to read all day everyday. I was able to get a few weeks ahead in my goal. After she was born I didn’t get much reading in. In fact it was tough just to keep up with my magazines.
So my goal was to read 52 books in a year. I never put a stipulation on the length of the book. So in December my wife and I started to read my daughter books before she went to bed. We cycled though three different books. So by my calculations that adds up to 52 books in 2007!
As for the books?
Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? Well I know they are only 20 pages or so but hey if you read them 10 times a piece well that’s a lot of pages, I guess. Of the three the only one I really don’t care for is the Brown Bear book. I realize it’s repetitive to help kids learn to read and stuff but come on. (Yes I’m complaining about a little kids book. ) How many times can you carry out the same thing with different animals? Apparently quite a few. I like Goodnight Moon because I always notice something new in the pictures every time. As for the caterpillar book. Well that’s just a fun story. It’s like a children’s book for budding competitive eaters.
On a side note the version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
that we got has a CD with the author reading the book. There are two different readings. Well there is only one reading. The second just has a ding when you are supposed to turn the page. As for the reading. A dead person could have read with more enthusiasm than Eric Carle did.You got to think, someone said:
“Hey Eric, I know a way to make some extra bones reeeeeal easy.”
“Sure I’m all for that. What do I have to do? You know I don’t have a lot of free time, I’m busy coming up with a sentence to repeat throughout my next book.” said Eric.
“Well all you have to do is read your book. “
“Crap! I don’t have time for that. It’s like 13 pages long!”
“No, No, it’s really easy. See I’ll just put a microphone up to the phone and you can do it right now. “
“And you say I’ll really be rolling in the dough afterwards???”
“You betcha!’
Eric sighs “Okay.”
The dude didn’t put any excitement or emphasis on anything! So if this version costs extra (it was a gift) don’t bother. Unless you need a new coaster.
