Little Bibliophile

I'm raising a little bibliophile. For those of you who aren't big on the greek/latin word roots, "biblio" means book, and "phile" means love. We went to the library last week and got C her first library card, and while we were there, my friend Danielle (*waves*) was asking me about my favorite books growing up. I thought about it and realized that I don't know much about which books were my favorites when I was C's age, except for my mother telling me that I tortured my grandmother by making her read "The Farmer in the Dell" for hours upon end. I could think of a multitude of books I loved after about the age of 8, but before that *shrug* nobody knows what I was fond of. That made me decide to blog about what books C loves right now. And boy, does she love books. She has a stack of them that she carries around the house, pushes in her stroller and takes to bed. The _same_ stack all the time. She will also sit and "read" her books for, well, half-hours at a time. She loves her Clifford, Curious George, Thomas the Tank Engine and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, but in particular she loves "Minnie's Rainbow" (100 times a day!) and "Curious George Builds a Home". In addition to her television characters, she has developed a fondness for "Miss Spider's Tea Party" that we got at Sophie's tea party birthday last year. She's also recently discovered our Dr. Suess books, and while she doesn't understand Horton Hears a Who, she likes looking at the elephant. She prefers Mr. Brown says Moo, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Cat In the Hat and the Lorax though. She also loves "The Monster at the End of the Book" and her feels-real books. Her favorite board books seem to be Are You My Mother and Put Me In the Zoo. Before bed we have several books that we read, all bedtime related: Goodnight George, Just in Case You Ever Wonder, Kittycat's Lullaby, Little Quack's bedtime and The Going to Bed Book. We were reading Goodnight Moon until the air conditioning unit in C's room started leaking and got it all wet. Ick. Yes, I am raising a little bibliophile. I doubt that anyone is particularly surprised by that though.