A Webbykinz World

Books play an integral role in my son's life. As he grows up in the home of a librarian and teacher, we will work hard to expose him to books knowing full well that being literate in our age stretches far beyond books.

Have you seen the new wave of sites for kids? Walking through the library's youth lab, nearly every other kid is nurturing their webkinz.

I had to go buy myself one so that I could check out the craze. Dewey, a little stuffed dog, sits on my desk at work. I log in for a couple of minutes each day to feed and earn webkinz dollars to buy him virtual things. The target audience for webkinz is 6 to 10. Six years old! Wow.

What will it mean to be literate for the next generation of readers?

Did We Create a Monster?

Sometimes, my son can be so persistent when it comes to books that I wonder if we created a monster. We read a book, and then he insists we read it to him again and again and again... throwing the book at us. He has done this since he was about 7 months old.

How did we create the monster? Simple, we surrounded him with books from a very young age, and read to him daily (yes, we missed some of those hectic newborn days) from the time that I found out I was pregnant. We have nearly 200 books in his little library (see our LibraryThing for all of our titles). Before we knew it, he was bringing the books to us.

"Read the Book"

Today, my one-year-old son uttered his first real, official sentence. He grabbed a hold of a book, threw it into my husband’s lap, and said clear as day “read the book.” This has compelled me to start a blog and share with the world our daily adventures of living with a one-year-old genuine bookworm.