First Book Review

Yesterday Evelyn read books to Eleyna for over an hour! I couldn't believe it! They were just books off our bookshelf, not even the easy readers from the library. She's totally taken off with reading, without me doing much more than reading with her a lot. ** I did have to help her overcome the stress of seeing too many words on a page, which we did by reading "Dick and Jane".
Recently we read her first chapter book together, "Ruby the Red Fairy", where we each took turns reading a page.

Here is her review, which also turned into a review of the second book, "Amber the Orange Fairy":
Evelyn: "I like that they found Ruby... I like all of it. I like Amber the Orange Fairy. I like that they found her in a clam."
Me: "Is it interesting or exciting?"
Evelyn: "No, I just like the Rainbow Fairies because they have pretty stuff on their costumes and in their hair."
Hey, I'm all for that if it gets her to read.

My sister-in-law posted about all of the books she's read recently. If I did a similar post, it would be something like this:




**(Really, I think the reason she loves to read so much is because I just don't like playing toys, so we read together instead. It's not working out with Eleyna, though. She would rather play toys.)

Here's Eli first showing interest in books: