Emily and I recently read "Charlotte's Web". It was the first "real" book that we have read together. By "real", I mean a book that took us longer than one sitting to read. I am excited to read some more classic children's literature with her. We started "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" around Christmas, but we got sidetracked and never finished it. We'll have to go back and finish that one and the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia, too. I loved the "Anne of Green Gables" series when I was young, so we may try that also. I am determined that my kids are going to love to read as much as I do. I recently started limiting her time on the computer to 30 minutes per day and have noticed since then she has started to spend more time reading on her own in her room. Yeah!
One thing I thought about as we read "Charlotte's Web" is how this story and many other great stories involve someone giving their life for someone else. Of course, this story originated with our Creator before He laid the foundations of the earth.
This was something kind of funny that came up while reading this. Emily was confused about why the people wanted to kill Wilbur the pig. I explained to her that pigs provide food for us like ham, bacon and pork chops. She looked at me in amazement like she could not believe this. It reminded me of an episode of "The Simpsons" when Lisa decided to become a vegetarian. She was explaining to Homer that she could not eat bacon, ham and pork because they come from pigs. Homer starts to chuckle and says "Oh, yeah right, the pig...it's a magical animal."
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That was one of my fav books as a kid.
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