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Housewifery of the Morning…

This morning Beatrix came out of Henry’s room carrying a LARGE Richard Scarry book

It’s literally as big as her upper body.
“I don’t need help!” she cheerfully stated, contorting her body in order to support the weight of the book on her thigh and hobbling like a creep out of ‘Lord of the Rings’.

We opened the book together.
This was the first thing I noticed.
Sweaty pig? Ew, the Dutch are gross, right?

Then I saw this.
I wrote that in 1982, it was one of my earlier book critiques. A 5 year old Kelly had just assured a 33 year old Kelly and her 2 year old daughter that the next 30 minutes were going to be ‘nice’ ones,
Parents who keep your old books: a wonderful thing.
I suggest anyone in the position to still save their childhood books, do.
Re-living the illustrations, the cadence and sing-songy stories: a free time machine, no Libyan plutonium necessary.

That was the original ending of my blog.
But then it occurred to me that my friend Neil’s book is coming out today and it totally ties into this Scarry book moment with Beatrix. Segue…
The Book of (EVEN MORE) Awesome comes out today.
You can read the first 20 pages here <—— click that sentence ding-a-ling.
The book contains (SURPRISE!) ‘AWESOME THINGS’ like:

I love little things like this, mostly because I’m a big fan of remembering we’re all more similar than we are dissimilar. When I flip through this book with my oldest daughter (who is still too young to understand how great these things are, but loves the book nonetheless) I get that “YES! That! Me too!” feeling that we all love.
And sometimes that’s all you need to make your day a little brighter.

Like that little note I wrote in Richard Scarry’s book in 1982 “Nice Book” that I got to appreciate today in 2011.
The littlest things make life okay.