typically when it is time to get a new book here at the BRATton house, we go to the book store. we browse. we skim. we drink coffee (and hot chocolate). we spend a fortune. we leave happy.
however, jonah has been begging me to take him to the library downtown for like three weeks. i must admit that we have never been there. i have come up with ten thousand reasons not to go and this morning i realized that i was being a sucky mom by keeping my children from the wonderful world of borrowed books.
okay so i really DID think that, but now i’m all like “maybe we should just buy the books”. i was completely dumbfounded when we got there. yeah that’s right. the 28-year-old doesn’t know how to use the freakin library. had we been at home i could have googled it, bought it and had it shipped directly to my home. but stick me in the middle of the library and i start to drool a bit. (not the i just ran into the cute guy from glee and he sang “bust a move” kind of drool, the rain man kind.) jonah wanted to read Captain Underpants. who’s idea was it to not put the books in alphabetical order? anyone can figure abc order out. so then i’m all like (in a very serious tone) “jonah, do you know who writes the C.U. books?” of course he did. luckily we found it and were able to move on. next is nate… ”what kind of book do you want?” ”mmmm, i want a chapter book!” nathan can’t read. ”okay, what kind of chapter book?” ”pokemon!” great, i have no idea where that’s gonna be. i’m lookin all around for a computer or a guy named dewey. all i see is kids. kids on computers. kids reading books. one kid even came up to me and told me something about signing the boys up for something….??? yeah, not sure about that. finally found a computer and a pokemon book.
did you know that pokemon is short for pocket monsters? also, in 1997 the 38th episode featured an attack on pikachu that caused 600 children to be rushed to hospitals because of vomiting and convulsions? and 12,000 children reported feeling sick. and if that wasn’t bad enough, the news aired the clip in their evening broadcast and caused many other children to get sick as well. genius! - got this from the non-chapter pokemon book Satoshi Tajiri Pokemon Creator-
okay so the good part is that we decided to start a series that i can read to them. the first book is called The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch. we started it tonight and jonah is quite intrigued by it. nate, not so much but i think that will change. i, like jones, am loving it so far. we’ll see how it turns out.
So, we survived our trip to the library and we now have a library card. and the boys were both happy. and we have a book to read together. and i didn’t slip on my drool!
library= success
