I got Joann Sfar's Vampire Loves for myself, but the kid has annexed it. In the first few pages, there's an old-fashioned vampire, a girl he's broken up with, a cheese-loving cat, a redhead vampire who's decided to follow him everywhere and a block party at a graveyard. I wonder what he makes of it?In other sneaky kiddie news, I am sick of him reading Enid Blytons. So recent strategy to get him to read other stuff includes giving him dictation (his handwriting is terrible and he spells as if he's taken dictation from someone who's had their teeth pulled out; so this is necessary) from new! exciting! books!
Of course, it's useless to dictate from Arun Kolatkar's The Policeman because it's only drawings, but they're lovely and we giggled through it, esp. at the beehive that forms under the pleeceman's armpit.
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Embarrassingly, it's been months since I read an Enid Blyton...
Dictation!
Tsk tsk, parents.
You are one wicked mom! :)
Joann Sfar's amazing. Get the boy the Sardine In Space and Little Vampire books!
I recently attempted to read an Enid Blyton after aeons. How anyone can read that stuff anymore is beyond me. Oh wait, let's go have lemonade and play-act stereotyped gender roles!
cat: you mean you'd have been happy if i'd let you have the enid blytons instead of BAP 07?
km: yeah yeah yeah. i've recently realised i've been neglectful and too hands-off.
sumana: :D if you say so.
jp: should look out for those; thanks! and you forgot the boiled eggs and little twists of salt and pepper.
I'm going to go read an Enid Blyton now. :)
The vampire book sounds fab, enough to wean anyone off EB.
Well, I wouldn't go that far...
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