Julia's Surprise for Mommy

Yesterday, Julia had no kindergarten because it was conference day at her school.  Even though she got to have a friend over to play, she was still chomping at the bit to get back to school today.  Here's why:

JULIA: Mama?  When I get home from school tomorrow, I have a surpriiiiiiise to give you!
ME: You do?  I'm so excited!
JULIA: I just decided, like, YESTERDAY that it's going to be for YOU, so I can't tell you what it is, but it's something special for YOOOOU!


Today, when I arrived to pick her up in the afternoon, she came gleefully trotting out the door of her school to greet me. 

JULIA: Mama?  ALL day, I was just WISHING and WISHING it was the end of the day!
ME: You were?  Why?
JULIA: So I could give you THIS!

It turns out my surprise is Julia's completed non-fiction book, which contains Julia's own newly-acquired information on the subject about which she did research.  In case you don't remember (though really, how can you forget?), her topic was surfing.  (Because she wants to be just like Merliah Summers from "Barbie in a Mermaid Tale."  Not because she has actually come across any real opportunity to surf.)

I am honored to be the recipient of the one and only copy of Julia's first-ever non-fiction book.  My dear blog readers, I present to you:

"All About Surfing."  by Julia Rowe



This is a legit book, people.  It even has a Table of Contents!:

Chapter 1.  "Siyse."  Now, just in case you are as confused as I was, this is not an attempted spelling of the word "seas," but instead is about the various sizes of surf boards.  So, the chapter entitled "Size" appropriately informs us that "surfboards can be long and shot."  I'm not sure if the grl in the picture is on a long board or a shot board, but I'm definitely digging her extra-long arms and three-fingered quirkiness.  I think she might be my favorite grl in this whole surfing book.

Chapter 2: "Good Surfing."  "You can stand up when you are relle good at surfing."  I guess this grl must be relle good, since she's standing AND smiling while she stands, cruising along on that blou wotr like she's been doing it since infancy.

Chapter 3: "Thix."  (Also sometimes referred to as "trix.")  "You can do thix when you surf."  Apparently Julia wants to be the kind of surfer grl who does thix, as she boldly labelled the grl in this picture "me."

Chapter 4: "Danjis trix."  Woah.  This is getting into the hard-core stuff.  "Thar are same rely dandis trix in surfing."  (JULIA: Mom, is your favorite girl the UPSIDE-DOWN girl who's doing this REALLY AWESOME trick?)  While I am definitely a fan of this upside down grl doing her really danjis trix, I still think my favorite is the grl from chapter 1.  I do wonder, however, which kinds of trix are MORE dangerous: the danjis ones, or the dandis ones.  What do you think??

Chapter 5: "Photograph."  "This is a rell picshr of surfing."  Wait, what?  This is not a Julia-drawn picture?  But this grl looks EXACTLY LIKE the grl doing trix.  I can hardly tell the difference!


And, finally, we have our "About the Author" page:

"My name is Julia.  I like bunnys.  I have a sister and she is three."

Bravo, Julia! I look forward to your next non-fiction book!  Maybe it will be about bunnys.