Rating: 5 summery stars
It's been retro week at our house for the past few
weeks. It all started with a trip to my Dad's house a few weeks
ago. He's got a pool, which is cool, but he's also got (drumroll,
please) The Children's Library. This library is a few shelves
stuffed with all the old books that my sister and I loved as children.
During a break from swimming and sun, Lorelei said she was ready for some quiet
time, so we got a stack of books from The Children's Library and set her up on
a pool chair. Her twin cousins joined in the read-fest and they turned
the very pages I turned as a kid.
This was the best of the best in the stack of
books. I read it out loud to Lorelei and her twin cousins while the
sun shone down on us, warming our towels that were wrapped around us. It
was towards the end of June, during an unusually hot spell here in
Virginia that meant summer really is here, ready or not. The
girls' hair was still wet and in their face as they sipped their chocolate
milk, given to them because it was Sunday and they were at GrandDad's
house.
Really, is there a more perfect book than this one
at that moment?
All of them loved it, with the references to the
sun and the heat and the beach and the waves and the fireflies and the roasted
marshmallows and all that good stuff that childhood summertime should be all
about. It was like jumping back a dozen years into my own childhood, one
that was full and dirty and fun and perfect.
We loved it so much that we checked it from the
library, too, so we read it on the way to GrandDad's house again today, and
then read it at his house, and then on the way home.
Hooray! Summer is HERE!
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