Poetry

I bought a children's book of poetry recently, the kind with lots of poems and lots of illustrations. Naomi loves it. She loves looking at the pictures, she loves having the poems read to her, she loves asking things like, "Why is the elephant crying?" Hannah is fine with poetry occasionally, but for a couple of days now, this book has been Naomi's top choice for reading. That isn't Hannah's idea of a good time. "I want a real story, not a rhyming one!"

Naomi, however, happily asks for "pottery" (or any other "p" word she can think of) many times a day. I admit that, before I figured out the new " any word starting with p = poetry" formula, I was in the dark about what she was talking about. "Which book, Naomi?" But now that I've figured it out, we're reading a lot of poetry.

Naomi's current favorite: The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat.