Sometimes I'm really stunned at how bad some of the books are that Jack is reading. They are awful. We all know that fairy tales have really bad story lines, complete with the damsel in distress. In many of the stories, the woman and man get married right after meeting each other because their parents and the town folk declared it so. Fantastic message. And there was SO much violence.
Anyway, I can write those off a little bit, because there was a formula to those sorts of stories. It was "normal" back then.
But not now. I just finished reading a book to Jack. It sounded good enough at the beginning - about a dog who ends up with a fire station. Fine. But then the plot unfolded. There was a kid who was cutting school. His dad worked at the fire station, but the fire station was not responding to fires fast enough, so the city manager was threatening to shut them down. But wait, there's more. The delinquent juvenile started investigating, and figured out that it was a local business man who was telling someone to light all of the fires. And guess who he was telling? THE CITY MANAGER (GASP). So they were arrested. And the dog got to stay with the fire station. The end.
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What was the title of that book???
Oh, and your last post had me thinking about when we coached soccer together. That was still one of the best things I've done...so much fun!
Kids' books are no different than adult books - although there are probably more good kids' books than there are good adult books, now that I think about it!
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