Yeah, I know, all other homeschoolers have their kids using the library like crazy, but until this year H.o.p. firmly believed in never a lender or borrower being. He would have nothing to do with it. Not the library, but the idea of lending and borrowing. What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine. Kind of. He did borrow, last year, a toy from a cousin.<\/p>\n
But now H.o.p. gets it. As far as the library is concerned. And on Tuesday he got his library card. He spent a long time choosing his first book, having it in his mind for some reason that “one” was it. He was going to bring home A Book From The Library and the idea of being able to return it and check it out again or get a new one was impressive to him.<\/p>\n
So, it now occurs to me, the Very First Library Book To Be Checked Out By H.o.p. was a choice that I should archive for him. That book being Jessica Souhami’s “The Leopard’s Drum” An Asante Tale From West Africa.<\/p>\n
He had a simple reply to the reason for his choice.<\/p>\n
“Because I like the jungle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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