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Aaron becker author7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When E was listing off books from her want-list for our request list for the library and mentioned Journey, my ears pricked up. Pool was one of our most-read books during the summer. If I asked nicely enough and didn’t make a big deal about it, EV would even “read” Pool to me. I took a turn reading it to her, and I noticed different facets of it than E, so my telling was a shade different. Sometimes she interjected to add something from a prior telling, others she inserted her own details. E kept making up the story of Pool, and EV began to interact with the story. Then, I watched something magic begin to happen. I was skeptical of it at first, recalling EV’s disinterest in Journey. Over the summer, E bought EV a wordless book called Pool. EV didn’t seem to love it, either. I took away that EV wasn’t excited about wordless picture books. I gave it a cursory page through and didn’t quite get it. ![]() ![]() Long before we had ventured to the library she was already cycling through books for EV every time she visited. The first time I encountered a wordless picture book for children was Journey at my mother’s house nearly a year ago. ![]()
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