"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
---Mark Twain
Once again I got to spend time at the school book fair, this time with my daughter. It's so great to see kids getting excited about books, as so many statistics and headlines seem to be saying that kids (and adults too for that matter) are no longer reading.
You'd never know that at this book fair. Kids were browsing all kinds of books, from novels to sports books to picture books and more. They seemed very interested in reading and overjoyed to be purchasing (or to have their parents purchasing) multiple books.
My daughter had picked out two books - one called The Diary of a Wimpy Kid (or something like that) and a spy-related book, but in the end she picked out a white board on a high quality piece of wood that is a chart for chores.
Can you believe she'd pick a non-book at the book fair? And can you believe I said ok to that? We both figured we have a backlog of unread books so may as well not add to the collection. And truthfully, this seems to be something that will encourage and motivate her to do more chores and be more responsible - sounds good to me!
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