Guess what day it is
It turns out that August 9 is National Book Lovers Day. I feel as though I should have served a cake with dinner to celebrate. We have quite a few book lovers in this house. Sadly, there was no cake or pie or even ice cream, which would have been nice since it was so hot today. So instead of celebrating with food, I'll celebrate with a blog post.
One of our favorite picture books is Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi. Poor Henry is the son of a pirate captain ("The Baddest bunny brute of all time") and lives on the pirate ship where he doesn't fit in. Instead of doing pirate-y things, Henry just wants to read. Life is not good for Henry. When the ship sinks and the crew is shipwrecked on an island, the only things that are saved are Henry's trunks of books. It is with these books that Henry saves the crew... and the day... eventually turning the entire crew into a ship full of readers.
Some of Henry's books are titled along the lines of "100 Tasty Meals for Shipwrecked Sailors" or "How to Build a Grass Hut Mansion on a Desert Island". They are books that are oddly specific to the bunny crew's situation. I need Henry's chest of books right now. In it I hope we could find, "How to Repair the Rusted out Bottom of an Old Washing Machine Without Spending Any Money or Buying a New One". Or even just as good would be, "How to Get Your Tax Refund to Arrive Right Now so that You can Pay Your Property Taxes". (I think that second one has the potential to become a best seller.) If I got to choose a third title, I think it would probably be, "How to Help the Disregulated Child in the Other Room Fall Asleep and Stop Making Horrible Whining Noises".
That pretty much sums up my evening. What books would you like to find in Henry's chest of books?
One of our favorite picture books is Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi. Poor Henry is the son of a pirate captain ("The Baddest bunny brute of all time") and lives on the pirate ship where he doesn't fit in. Instead of doing pirate-y things, Henry just wants to read. Life is not good for Henry. When the ship sinks and the crew is shipwrecked on an island, the only things that are saved are Henry's trunks of books. It is with these books that Henry saves the crew... and the day... eventually turning the entire crew into a ship full of readers.
Some of Henry's books are titled along the lines of "100 Tasty Meals for Shipwrecked Sailors" or "How to Build a Grass Hut Mansion on a Desert Island". They are books that are oddly specific to the bunny crew's situation. I need Henry's chest of books right now. In it I hope we could find, "How to Repair the Rusted out Bottom of an Old Washing Machine Without Spending Any Money or Buying a New One". Or even just as good would be, "How to Get Your Tax Refund to Arrive Right Now so that You can Pay Your Property Taxes". (I think that second one has the potential to become a best seller.) If I got to choose a third title, I think it would probably be, "How to Help the Disregulated Child in the Other Room Fall Asleep and Stop Making Horrible Whining Noises".
That pretty much sums up my evening. What books would you like to find in Henry's chest of books?
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