Emery’s literacy history
Before I try to justify why I’m about to read a
Shakespearian play with my son, I should give you his literary history, which
has been constructed by him, us, and his librarians (who are amazingly
perceptive at suggesting books he would like).
Just some of the books we’ve read together at night, in no
particular order
A few Magic Tree House books
Treasure Island
The Hobbit
Wind in the Willows
The Apothecary by Malie Meloy
Harry Potter 1-3 (then he took them over and read/
listened on CD for the rest of them)
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande
Velde (great if your kid loves video games)
Chomp
Ghost Knight
The Divide (Victor was mad because this
was the second book in a series—but Emery picked it out with my mom)
Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
Wimpy Kid (just one or two before he
started reading them on his own)
Ralph and the Motorcycle
The High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate
Frindle
Danny the Champion of the World
The Twits
Stickdog wants a hamburger (and its sequel in which he wants a hot dog)
Of course, we read picture books
for years—Frog and Toad, A Snowy Day, everything by Mo Willems, Chris Van
Allsburg, and on and on.
On his own, he’s read every
possible Garfield he could get his hands on. He’s read all of the Wimpy Kids
and Captain Underpants (as well as the spinoffs). He loves graphic novels, and
has read the Bone series, the two Stickman Odyssey books, manga-inspired by
video games—Pokemon and Zelda (even the right to left versions). I frequently
hand him books that are sent to the ALAN Review for review and he reads them to
give me his opinion.
One thing he loves to do is
listen to audio books—he has read and reread everything by Rick Riordan. He has
also listened to Roald Dahl’s books.
Emery’s comment: our relationship
is NOT built around her teaching me stuff we just have busy schedules together.
I’ve also read Charly Joe Jackson’s guide to not reading!
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