Rating: 5 stars
We've loved Elephant and Piggie for a long, long time. I've written about them a few times before (most recently HERE and before that HERE). They are the best easy reader series that exists, and if you are working on reading with your kiddo, you need to check out every single one of them from the library. Really, you do.
But this book. Waiting Is Not Easy. This one take the cake.
This is the best! The best book in a fantastic series! Do you REALIZE what this means?! This is one spectacular book!
Perhaps I've read it so many times that I am now beginning to talk like Gerald and Piggie? There could be worse things.
SO! The book!
Piggie has something to show Gerald. But he has to wait for it. And Gerald has a waiting problem. I know a waiting problem when I see one because I have serious waiting problems, too. Gerald and I (and my kids, like most kids) have serious deficiencies when it comes to patience. It's really a bummer that Target doesn't sell patience, really. It'd be so handy to have an extra six-pack of patience sitting around...
ANYWAY! The book!
So Gerald does his best to wait--which Piggie insists he must do, he has no choice, the surprise is not ready yet--and finally he does wait until the final few pages of the book, when the reader turns the page and together with Gerald we gasp in appreciation.
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| Gerald learns he has to wait some more. (I do the same thing.) |
And Gerald says, simply and quietly: "That was worth waiting for."
What a great book to put in the hands of our children! Geesh, what a great book to put in the hands of our friends and partners and siblings, too! In this world of now-now-NOW, where we want what we want yesterday, not months or years from now, it is even more important to teach kids that waiting is difficult and worthwhile.
Some things are worth waiting for.
Isn't that true?
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