Short Stacks

After a few too many trips to Barnes and Noble to buy storybooks to read to Boo, and realizing that each jaunt was costing an arm and a leg, we have become loyal patrons of the public library.

The Southern Lehigh library is pretty nice. It has a monstrous kids' section (even though the adult selections are a bit slim), and it's located across the street from the park. We went for the first time last week after a nice walk, and we went yesterday to return our books and pick up a new armload. We checked out Get Well, Good Night, King Bidgood's In the Bathtub, and Clever Beatrice. It's nice to have a means of expanding our bedtime-story repetoire without having to refinance the house to underwrite it, and if we especially like something, we can then go buy our own copy knowing it's a surefire hit. (This is how we found Olivia Saves the Circus-- the Olivia books, about the adventures of a very creative British girl-pig, are so funny and the illustrations are terrific.)

The library trip itself was cute. Boo kept trying to clamber into the librarian's computer chair and wanted to get the stuffed animals down from the shelves. Then a slightly older little boy showed up and began trying to choose a book, so...Boo did too. She would grab any book off the shelf and toddle over to where he was, sit down near him, and start to "read." Other kids are rock stars in her world, so she will do whatever they're doing. Right now, that's reading, which is great.