New Book

When the girls were younger, they really enjoyed the books in the "Good Night" series, and we made a point of collecting the books about places we had visited.  Among those in our collection are "Good Night, Boston," "Good Night, Atlanta," and "Good Night, Vermont."  While both girls have long outgrown board books, I decided to buy a new book this past week, just for the sake of reminiscince.  We are now the owners of:

Good Night, Montreal


The books basically all start out the same way, with the only exception being the name of the city or state we're exploring:

"Good morning _______.  Good morning, __________.  Are we ready to share a wonderful day?"


Julia, who has been under the impression for some time that our little 12-and-a-half square mile suburb could actually attract vacationing visitors, decided to make her own book about the fantastic things our hometown has to offer:

The cover.  Doesn't it make you want to visit??

"Good morning, Cafe Fresh Bagel, where people come and eat you're delisius bagels.  Are you ready to share a great bagel?"

JULIA: Well, I did "are you ready to share a great bagel" instead of "are you ready to share a wonderful day" because I wanted my book to be, like, a little bit DIFFERENT.

"Good morning, Rosemary Pool.  Are we ready to win the swim meet, Sharks?"

Our town pool, which is about to reach its expiration date, requiring a complete renovation/re-build, is one of the things Julia repeatedly insists would attract out-of-state visitors to the town.

"Good morning, DeFazio Park. Are you ready to run hard, track club?"

I especially like the captions in this one.  They make so much sense.  "That was me.  Sorry!"  "Huh!?"  Because runners normally accidentally reach out their hands and grab the head of the runner in front of them, right?

"Keep going, runners at the Jog Your Memory 5K at Michelle school."

Oh, we've got more runners here.  It looks like this guy is trying to reach out and grab the head of the floppy-legged woman in front of him, too.  Maybe this really is a thing and I have just never experienced it in my 20+ years of racing??

"Hello, Baseball field at DeFazio Park.  This is gonna be a long afternoon."

Oh, we're back at DeFazio again?  Have we already run out of area attractions so quickly?

"Good evening, Charles River YMCA Tsunami Swim team.  You're swimming is looking great!"

Well, now, this is a new place.  I know, I know, we did a swim team already, but this is a DIFFERENT swim team.  At a different pool.  Also, I should have never tried to teach Julia the difference between "your" and "you're," because now I've got her ALL mixed up.

"Good evening, fishermen at Rosemary Lake.  Hope you catch some big fish!"

Back at Rosemary again.  At least this time it's the lake, from which the pool gets its water.  Although this water shown above looks more like mud.  Or liquid chocolate.  Maybe a chocolate lake would convince the masses to vacation here!


And finally, the classic ending page, saying good-night to the town, and showing our gratitude by saying:

"Thank you for sharing a great day!"


It sure WAS a great day!  We hit all the town hot spots!  We started off with a bang, getting a delisius bagel, and finished up by waving to the friendly local fisherman.  Whew.  I'm exhausted from all that fun!


Madeleine did some writing and illustrating today, too:

"KUM TO MADELEINE DAS KLLAS"

I would *definitely* not be afraid that if I attend Madeleine's dance class, I might turn into a mournful, macabre ballerina-ghoul.  This drawing isn't creepy at all.