Travelingjenny

Those of you who have come within a two-mile radius of us within the past two months or so are already aware of Grace's obsession with the Rainbow Magic series of fairy books. It all started when a classmate brought a couple of these fairy books to school, and Grace took an immediate interest in them. It probably helped that her friend's books were from the "Pet Fairy" series. I mean, girls who have fairy friends and help them find their lost fairy pets? That's a 6-year-old animal lover's dream. 

So, when I came across these books at the store, I bought Grace a couple of them. And then she scraped her allowance money together to buy a couple more. And then Santa brought her some for Christmas, and suddenly the kid has 12 fairy books! And she carries them with her around the house, and wherever we go outside of the house. In fact, I had to make a special trip to the store to buy her a special bag to haul her special books around in. When she comes in to wake us up in the morning, she has her 12 books with her. While she is waiting for her breakfast, she lines them up in order. And she talks about them. Constantly. Adam, who has bedtime story duty, has read most of them to her twice already. And he has never once complained about it. Because now that kid loves books. And when she comes home from school, she puts on her pajamas, grabs her books, and sits quietly (quietly!) on the couch with them. She reads the chapter headings, and tries to read whole sentences, and looks at the pictures and thinks about the story. I can't wait until she can read these books to us, and she can hardly wait, either.