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My latest summer reads. I love children's books...
they're so uncomplicated and generally very happy and uplifting.

My favorite reads for the summer have been these two. Pink and Say is a tear jerker, which is unusual for a children's book but a great read. Pink's and his mama's dialogue should be read with a Georgia-Ebonic-accent.

The other one, Gator Gumbo, is just a fun fun book but beware the ending with small children.

Gator Gumbo must be read with a Cajun/Creole accent to really get the flavor of the story.

When I began reading these last two to Sweet Man on Sunday afternoon he says, "are you gonna read with an accent?" I says, "well of course I am, why?" "Just give it to me in plain English," says he. Uh huh, that's gonna happen thinks I. I read these last two with my accents and when I'm finished 'he' wants to know, "done already"?

I read the whole book The Secret Life of Bees to him with a Carolina accent and he loved it. He likes to fuss and ruffle his feathers cause he doesn't want me to know he has a soft side but I already got that man figured out....crusty outside with a marshmallow center. Lucky me!

If you get the chance give them a try if you're 5 or 95. They're good reads, the whole lot of them.

Have a lovely day wherever in the world you are.

Reading...

How do you like to read? Sitting up, laying down, outside or in, at the table, on the sofa or curled up in a chair?
Do you like large print or regular, paperback or hardback? Do you read silently or outloud, with natural light or by lamp? Do you read with an accent or without, if you read with an accent do all the characters have a different voice or do all characters sound the same? Large tomes, medium or small. Which genre do you prefer? Do you save the last page for last or do you read it first?

These are my preferences...sitting up, laying down, outside and in, at the table on the sofa or curled up in a chair, large print, regular, paperback and hard, out loud, any light, with an accent (if it needs one), each character with their own voice. I especially like an Irish accent or one from the South and South of the Border is pretty fun. Large, medium and small bring it on, I like history, mystery, biography, fiction, non-fiction, scriptures, cereal boxes, cottage cheese containers, and liquid soap bottles. I always read the last page first, if I don't like it I don't read the book.
I guess you have figured me out...I love to read and will read just about anything. For the past few years I've been collecting books from my childhood and rereading them with great delight. A few of my favorites are Mr. Bear-Squash-You-All-Flat, The Churkendoose, The Pedlar of Colored Threads, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Fish, and Granny's Birds. I love the illustrations, the colors are fabulous.
My philosophy is save a horse, read a book....
Have a lovely evening wherever in the world you are and read a couple of pages tonight before you go to sleep.