Commuter Mom: Book Report

One of my favorite parts of the day is snuggling with my daughter on her “green” bag (it’s a green beanbag) chair and reading 3 books before bed. My current favorites are The Day the Babies Crawled Away and Violet the Pilot.

We have been reading The Day the Babies Crawled Away for a while now. After listening to this interview with Peggy Rathman I bought the book. My daughter and I have read it over and over and over and over. We’ve read it so many times that now we read it together…and my daughter knows all of the words.

For Christmas this year, my Aunt sent us Violet the Pilot. I don’t know which I like better, the story or the pictures. Violet isn’t like all of the other kids; she gets teased for building “flying machines” out of parts from her father’s junk yard. One day, she decides to enter one of her airplanes in an air show in hopes of winning a blue ribbon. But, on the way there she sees a group of Boy Scouts (including the 2 boys who teased her the most) stuck in a raging river. Rather than continuing on to the air show, she rescues the boys and delivers them safely to the hospital. Later that night, as she sits in her room, sad she missed the air show, the whole town gathers in front of her house to honor her for her good deed.