This year in my new job as librarian/reading coordinator, I have been doing more research about reading. I found a book in my library by
Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook. In it he describes various reading success (some actually miracle) stories, and one notes a mom who was reading
Charlotte's Web to her three-year old. "I bet Connor would like that," I thought, and found the three-book E. B. White set put up for him in the attic a couple of years ago. We started reading it before Christmas, but unfortunately forgot to bring it on our holiday vacation. No matter, we picked it back up in January. It took a while, but he really enjoyed it. His dad recommended the animated movie, which we found at our local library, and we watched that. It was really fun to see him so interested in a story that lasted for more than one sitting.
We continued with another book in the set,
Stuart Little, which he really loved, and finished that last night. The movie is set to arrive tomorrow. Meanwhile we began Beverly Cleary's
The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Charlotte's Web was one of the books my fourth-grade teacher read to us (she read to us for about a half-hour every day after lunch recess), but this was the first time for me to read
Stuart Little.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle seems new to me as well, though I'm sure I read other Beverly Cleary books- a couple of years ago I found and read her biography,
A Girl from Yamhill- charming. I think I gave it to my mom to read.
Anyway, we are already half through TMATM and have requested the movie. I am wondering what would be good to read next? Any suggestions? We could read more Ralph stories.
