Today would have marked Dr. Seuss's 106th birthday, and like every year, the NEA is celebrating his amazing work and the joys of reading with Read Across America! I had the privilege of writing about it for 5 Minutes for Books the other day in our On Reading column, and I'm taking this minute to plug this wonderful event one more time.For our part, we've already read for a bit this morning, and we even used about 149 staples to put together a special The Cat in the Hat hat for Red. (Pudge has uniformly declined from wearing a paper hat... we'll try again later...) The Dr. Seuss books are in place in the "special books" basket in our living room, and the kids and I also decided to do a little Mo Willems-a-thon reading event later on, too. (Yes, they helped decide... it's not just me!)
Today, like every day, is the perfect day to grab your kids and a whole mess of books and just go to town with the reading fun. The smiling faces are the greatest reward!
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Cute picture! =D
ReplyDeleteWow, her hair is getting so long and she's looking so....old.
We celebrated here, too :) Noah was very proud to be one of the banner carriers in their school parade. Lots of fun. Wish they done this when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, could there BE a better thing to celebrate with its own day??
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