Children lost and found

[ishai_wallace]

Three out of the last four nights I have be woken up by the Small Person calling out "Abba, where are you?" This is unusual. In general, the Small Person goes to bed in his own bed. We read him the customary three books, we generally allow for negotiations for a fourth, and then there is snuggling and sleeping. Sometime between midnight and three

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[avnerd]

I wonder how much the small person we have weekly dates with picks up from the stories I read him since I don't get to spend every day (or even overnight, yet) with him. I've mostly been doing tons and tons of Dr. Seuss books with him but lately he has been very ammenable to my reading from books that are not picture books and so I've been reading him these feminist fairy tales from around the world - Maid of the North - that I had when I was young. Some of those stories are dark and do involve babies going missing for a bit (they always come back) and I'll be curious to see if any of that comes back around in playtime/conversation. Your post certainly made me more aware of it and watchful.

In a related tangent - you have good taste in books - can you share what else you are reading with your small person? I'm trying to stock up my shelves for whenever we have little ones over and am mostly steering back to my youth but I imagine there must be good contemporary stories or other classics people who's taste I respect enjoy, anything that allows me to broaden my collection.