Yes, my soccer loving child is also a lover of books. Oak Park has a special little shop filled with Children's books called the Magic Tree. Before coming home, we stopped in there because my son out of the blue began asking for Little Bill books by Bill Cosby. I have been to Borders and Barnes & Nobles and nobody seems to carry them. You have to special order them. I ended up ordering many on Amazon.com. The Magic Tree came through and I scored 3 Little Bill books!
Anytime my little one appears to be interested in a topic or anything, I try to get books to match his interest. That's how I learned that I enjoyed reading and "readers are leaders". It seems to keep him engaged and to this day, he always insists that we read no less than 3 books to him a night before falling to sleep. The great thing about the Little Bill series is that they have great lessons in them and there's an African American boy with his 2 parents and his grandmother is his best friend. Again, these are positive role models for an African American boy that he can identify with. I also love that Little Bill respects his elders like his grandmother, "Alice the Great".
My husbands grandmother who is 98 years old took in her great grand daughter a while ago when she was pregnant. The little boy turned 5 about a month ago. When we went to Gary recently for his birthday party, I asked how many books the little guy had. His mom told us 2....that's it...2! We have gone through my sons books and will be sending the little guy some books that my son is no longer interested in.
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