Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I finished reading Wolfie & Fly aloud to my 5-year-old this week, and honestly, I thought it was odd. There were lots of good things about it–Wolfie’s world getting stretched a bit, kids using their imaginations and working together, the absurdity of the adventure–but the amorphous quality of that adventure caused some problems for my OCD, and I did not love the parents’ lack of anything resembling parenting. Perhaps I would have liked it better if it had been more obviously fantastical? I don’t know. My youngest, however, gave it a thumbs up, and so it’s probably a good choice for the short chapter book stage–under 90 pages, some half-page illustrations, etc. Let me know what you think!