Well, she's not all THAT scared. But it's enough of a "man bites dog"story, that I just had to write about it. TG is reading some annoying manga in between reading Erin Hunter's Warriors series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, anything in the Magic Treehouse series or Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate events*, and any other of the 14 books she has checked out of the library this week.
On weekends, I make TigerGrrl go to bed an hour later than her weekday bedtime, and then she's allowed to read in bed until she conks out and starts snoring. So I just got a call, and I went to her room. She told me she had reached the scary part of her book. Good to know. "The pictures are scary." I told her she could always skip the scary parts. She was shocked and appalled. So I brought her the next Warriors book, saying nice cats would be better to read about whilst falling asleep. "Yeah, they're nice;" she said. "they have tea togeter." Yup, scared, but not too scared for sarcasm.
*Sadly, Captain Underpants in his tighty-whities has been left behind with third grade.
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FW said: any other of the 14 books she has checked out of the library this week.
Impressive. Sounds like my teenage years..... [grin]
Now I just *buy* my books so there's basically no limits [laughs]
Oh, and Manga can be pretty scary at times...
It's a fine line...you want your kids to know how to be entertained by scary stuff...but you don't want to be up all night dealing with nightmares.
Scary stories are delicious.
I recommend a good dose of Walter the Farting Dog.
Mr. Cat: Yeah, I long for the "buy books whenever you want them" budget, but our local library is divine.
Laurita: I was touched, and amused by her reaction. She's not easily scared, and definitely wanted guidance from me, and had identified that what she was feeling had moved beyond the fun scariness of, say, Goosebumps, and took her Warriors book with pleasure and relief.
SuperCookie: That is a great book. And you can imagine that dog taking care of any sort of monster.
FW said: Mr. Cat: Yeah, I long for the "buy books whenever you want them" budget, but our local library is divine.
I used to live in my local library before I had enough spare money to buy books. They are worth their weight in gold.
Mr. Cat: The public library in my community is such that I never complain about my (relatively high, for the U.S.) taxes. The price we pay for a civilized society.
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