Bedtime reading
So, last night, The Boy insisted that his bedtime stories include one of the "big-boy" books on the top shelf of his closet. (He'd been given several big-kid books when he was a baby, and I'd stored them up there to keep them nice when he was ready for 'em).
I gulped, and pulled down the copy of Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur, which had been a present from The Boy's Great-Uncle Arthur, actually.
And ... well, he loved it. We only got as far as the coronation at Pentecost -- The Boy was pleased and amused to hear that Arthur pulled the sword from the stone just like he'd done -- so I'm not sure how much further we're really going to get in section-by-section reading before gets bored of it (it does have the N.C. Whyeth illustrations, but they're geared to an older child's attention span, so they don't appear as frequently they do in The Boy's other picture-books).
We did followed it up with two picture-books, too -- if the slice of The Boy's King Arthur was dinner, then Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse were dessert. Perhaps that's the way to handle heavy reading -- a section at a time, when he really wants to hear some more of it, with some follow-up picture-books.
I gulped, and pulled down the copy of Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur, which had been a present from The Boy's Great-Uncle Arthur, actually.
And ... well, he loved it. We only got as far as the coronation at Pentecost -- The Boy was pleased and amused to hear that Arthur pulled the sword from the stone just like he'd done -- so I'm not sure how much further we're really going to get in section-by-section reading before gets bored of it (it does have the N.C. Whyeth illustrations, but they're geared to an older child's attention span, so they don't appear as frequently they do in The Boy's other picture-books).
We did followed it up with two picture-books, too -- if the slice of The Boy's King Arthur was dinner, then Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse were dessert. Perhaps that's the way to handle heavy reading -- a section at a time, when he really wants to hear some more of it, with some follow-up picture-books.