I want everyone to know on here, that my daughter is a 5-year old prodigy. She is the only child I know, who counts Arsenic and Old Lace as her favorite movie. And the only one I know, who can actually sit through a story (lacking a lot of illustrations), without getting up, running a lap around the house, asking "when we're done, can I watch Spongebob".
With this doll thing she has going on, it was her idea to come to me with this book, asking me to start reading it to her. And I can't really describe the warm feeling that it gives, when you are able to read a story aloud, and have your child laugh at the way your voice animates it, asking you to repeat that part again. And on top of that-- beg you to read another chapter before they go to bed!
Last month, I started reading The Doll People, the first of a three-part series, written by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin. It's about a family of Victorian-era dolls, who have been passed in the home through a couple of generations. The main doll, Annabelle, is the daughter doll, who goes on an adventure in search of her Aunt Sarah-- another doll who went missing 50 years before.
We finished that book. And the moment we did, my daughter grabbed the 2nd in the series, and asked me if I could read just a chapter from that before going to bed. (That book is called The Meanest Doll In The World, where The Runaway Dolls is book number three.)
Nonetheless, it's a great feeling to find that bond with your child, where you can spend some time together that would otherwise be wasted, watching cartoon reruns, if you ended up telling them they had a half hour left before bedtime.
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