Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 10, 2013

The chin wiggle is the best part.

Can you tell your dad to read it to gocomics, too??

And sound effects. There has to be sound effect when reading to a child. It’s the law.

I loved reading to my kids. It was the highlight of many days for me.

There was a book called “Rabbit, Skunk and Spooks.” My girls never got tired of me reading it. Wish I still had it. I think we wore it out.

Alice, little angel, you are exactly right, and of course your Daddy will read it to you! How could he say “no” to you?

The voices make it fun for everyone. I especially love the voices inside my head.

Two words: Goodnight Opus.

sorry forgot to add this http://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Skunk-Spooks-Carla-Stevens/dp/0590080873

Unfortunately, the books that children often fixate on are not ones that I’d choose to read over and over and over. The Pokey Little Puppy may be a lot of people’s dream book, but for me, not so much.

People still read?

My son’s favorite was “Cars and Trucks”. He had that book memorized! Once when my cousin picked it up to read to him, he “read” it to her instead. He was 3.

Chin? What chin?

Alice, tell us how “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie” goes!

My daughter had to have “Guess How Much I Love You” every time she went to sleep. Including naps. It kinda soured it for me……

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie!

My daughters liked “Spooky Old Tree” if it was my mother reading or “Are you my Mother” if it was me reading it was “A Possum Come a Knockin At the Door” lol

When my kids were little, long before Skype, my father-in-law bought copies of a book of fairy tales for each set of grandkids and then recorded himself reading it, complete with sound effects. Not quite the same as him being present, but from hundreds and thousands of miles away, the little ones could sit down and have Grampa reading to them whenever they chose. Best grandparent gift ever.

The books about the pigeon that my twin grandsons read to me are my favorite .

Gokie5 ; I had THE POKEY LITTLE PUPPY when I was a boy and I am 72 now so it has been around a while. One change I noticed when my nieces and nephews read it in the 70s; in my book the little puppy went without dessert while in the later ones they had saved him some. I trace the decline in our moral fiber to this change.

I sorta like the way my chin wiggles every time I read Cul de Sac out loud….