Since our toddler follows our improvised bedtime stories so well, I was curious to see how he’d receive a chapter book. A barnyard book like Charlotte’s Web fit September well. So we plunged one chapter a day with warm milk and pillows into E.B. White’s beautiful descriptions of seasons, country-living, and farm animals. Linus knew every character well and immediately wanted them added to our bedtime story caste. As expected, he did not follow the full plot like a 3rd grader, so we are not rushing to the next “big book”.
When we turned to THE END page, my three-year-old looked up at me confused, “What happened?” I explained that the book was over; there’s no more story. He stared puzzled at the blank sheet and repeated, “What happened?” I love these moments of discovery.
Speaking of discovery, we took an early morning walk to look for “Charlotte” in dewy spider webs (there were many) and spent an afternoon at a perfect local farm. Wilbur was not there and thankfully Templeton wasn’t either, but there was much to see and learn!
Goats, sheep, a donkey, horses, tractors, mums and corn. And we picked pumpkins, apples, and the last of this year’s blueberries, raspberries.
Charlotte’s Web was well-accompanied by:
Four Seasons Make a Year by Ann Rockwell
Plants Feed Me by Lizzy Rockwell
Moo, Moo, Brown Cow, Have You Any Milk? by Phillis Gershator
If you have any recommendations for fall or harvest books, please relate them in the comments! Thanks.
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