Brown Bear, Brown Bear Special Reading

Last Saturday we told Mason we’d take him to the library to look for books and videos on magic since suddenly he was interested in having a magic wand and magic curtains (I guess I started it after asking him if he wanted a magic wand while watching the Fairy God Mother change mice into horses on Cinderella). By the time we actually got out of the house, the library was closed so we took them to Barnes and Noble instead. We haven’t taken them there before and both kids had a blast in the kid section. Mason immediately stepped up on the stage and pretended to perform.

It was fun to see some of the books I read as a child . . . Morris the Moose, Amelia Bedelia, Bernstein Bears, and others. We came across Brown Bear and although we don’t own it, I know that Mason has enjoyed reading it at preschool. Mason sat down and read the whole thing through by himself! Dan about fell off his chair because he wasn’t aware that Mason knew it. It was cute.

Tristyn just wanted to read The Hungry Caterpillar over and over again—along with a few other books that we own. I guess she wanted to stick with what was familiar. She bad a blast pulling the Thomas the Train sound books off the shelf and lining them up on the floor. I think she liked that they all looked the same and all made the same sounds. She also liked the stuffed animals, of course.

The kids both loved it. We didn’t look real hard for magic books, though. I guess we’ll have to head back to the library!