One of our friends is a elementary school teacher and she talks about having a room for kids to learn in that is word-rich. Meg and I want to have a family that is word-rich so we are reading to our little one everyday. Right now she really only wants to sit down for about half a Dr. Seuss book, but that's not much shorter than my attention span.
The Little Blue Truck is our current favorite because of its rollicking (an adjective used on the cover of the book) illustrations. The story is about a blue truck who is friends with all the animals who live along an ambling country road and he speaks to them all as he slowly goes by. But one day, a dump truck with "big, fat tires" came barreling through just missing little ducky on the road and eventually ending up stuck in a puddle of "muck and mire". No one but Little Blue comes to help the leviathian when he cries out. And despite all his effort he "couldn't quite budge the heavy load" until his animal friends heard his cries for assitance. The dump truck learns his lesson "that a lot depends on a helping hand from a few good friends". Morality is so simple in children's stories, do we make it too complex? One thing is for sure, stories are much better with pictures.
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