Monkey1 just cracks me up. She reads obsessively. And right now her obsession is Nancy Drew books. She's averaging reading one per day and she's on book 9 now. I've got to get her to the library today - she's out of reading material [this qualifies as a true crisis at our house! LOL!]. You would be further amazed that she has "nothing to read" if you could see our home - there are books all over the place, at least a hundred that would be of interest to her in particular. She's read all those though. :)The most curious thing about this is the way that Nancy Drew has become part of our family. As in, we will be sitting down at dinner and Monkey1 will mention how Nancy and Helen did such and such. You know, like we all know Nancy and Helen and sit down to dinner with them on a regular basis. It is just so funny.
Like any true book nut, the characters are alive to her. I have gotten used to hearing things like "Mom! Do you know what Nancy just did?" I don't even stop to ask who Nancy is any more. :) [I was a little slow to catch on at first and became bewildered by questions like this....racking my brain to think who in the world we knew that she would call Nancy....]
I am amazed and gratified by this child's insatiable desire to read. I love seeing her with her nose buried in some book or other. Of all the joys of my life, this is one of the ones I most wanted to pass on to my children - I'm so glad we've succeeded, at least with #1 so far.
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Nancy was a good friend of mine as a child too, and I'm happy to see her making a comeback. We saw the movie when it opened, and I was completely surprised by how into it the packed theater full of kids were! I love all the kids fantasy stuff out now, but this just made me realize what a huge gap there is in reading material for kids who are not into dragons and magic or who aren't old enough for it yet.
We've been picking up Hardy Boys books too.
Oh, she sounds so much like me at that age. :) I walked around with my nose in a Nancy Drew book all the time too! heehee....
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