Today Seamus was reading A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. Yesterday he read Falling Up also by Shel Silverstein, in it's entirety. I absolutely love watching children read. I have many fond memories of hearing Shel Silverstein poems when I was a child. They were so very much fun to listen to. Yesterday Eoin noticed Seamus reading the book and brought down Mr Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends from the bookshelf. I began reading it aloud to Eoin and along came Liam to hear the poems. It was a great ripple moment.
We have a house full of books. Buying books is almost problematic for Chris and I. It is hard to buy a book from amazon.ca without buying a bunch "just to save on the shipping (please consider accessing amazon.ca through a link at lllc.ca to support this wonderful organization). Chris has always been an avid reader and now that the boys are older and I have more free time I have developed quite the appetite for reading. There are many nights when I start reading a book and don't put it down until I finish it at 5 am. Thank goodness the children are late sleepers and don't have to get up to go anywhere.
Seamus has a list of books that he wants to read and makes a plan every night to read a bit so that he can make it through his list. It is a sizeable list. The novels he is reading on top of his wish list right now are Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labryinth by Rick Riordan, The Tapestry by Henry H. Neff, Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris.
I hope that all the boys develop a love for reading. Liam although he can read he doesn't enjoy it just yet. Well in truth he loves reading graphic novels and does that frequently, he does not feel comfortable in his ability yet to get through a novel. Liam likes to feel confident in his tasks. Eoin is just in the beginning stages of reading and has really begun to enjoy listening to books more. He did not enjoy listening to books at bedtime when I read to the boys. Seamus and Liam both enjoyed hearing novels from early on but Eoin just these past few months has begun asking to be read to from novels. He has always enjoyed picture books. They all enjoy listening to novels on cd while we are in the car. One downfall to moving from the bigger city to rural area is the sad list of cds we can take out of the library. And novels on cd are just too expensive to buy normally. Although we have found some success with bookcloseouts.com and occasionaly Zellers has books on cd for $7.99.
It is the perfect time of year to sit by the window with the fall breeze coming in, wrapped up in a warm blanket reading a book!
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