Currently D resists direct guidance on many things. Time will tell whether this is a phase or not, but he has his own opinions, even if often that opinion is something like "I'll watch any movie other than the one you both think I would really like" or "I don't like chapter books."
At the beginning of winter break I finally cajoled him in to letting me read aloud five minutes of this book, promising that I'd stop if he didn't like it. Unsurprisingly he was hooked, but so were Jack and I. Last night we finished about an hour after D's bed time. Like so many books, it was a fairly random find. My sister picked up the second book from this series in a little free library and gave it to us, which prompted me to buy the first book, Space Case, as a Christmas present. Its vocabulary is way too advanced and it's a murder mystery, but hey, that's how you learn new vocabulary ... and um... other stuff, right? The end was so suspenseful, that D insisted we both be present and stopped often to discuss and predict things. Jack and I both love reading, read a lot as kids and are just ecstatic to have D excited about a book that is good enough that I found myself thinking about the plot even outside of bedtime.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571237-space-case
At the beginning of winter break I finally cajoled him in to letting me read aloud five minutes of this book, promising that I'd stop if he didn't like it. Unsurprisingly he was hooked, but so were Jack and I. Last night we finished about an hour after D's bed time. Like so many books, it was a fairly random find. My sister picked up the second book from this series in a little free library and gave it to us, which prompted me to buy the first book, Space Case, as a Christmas present. Its vocabulary is way too advanced and it's a murder mystery, but hey, that's how you learn new vocabulary ... and um... other stuff, right? The end was so suspenseful, that D insisted we both be present and stopped often to discuss and predict things. Jack and I both love reading, read a lot as kids and are just ecstatic to have D excited about a book that is good enough that I found myself thinking about the plot even outside of bedtime.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571237-space-case
Dd meanwhile is quite excited about books and often asks for them, but quickly loses interest in most books that don't have a tactile element to them. We love our little bibliophiles.
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