The librarian's at my local library are the best. I recently went in and said, "What do you do about kids who don't want to read on their own." E man just doesn't make sense to me. He loves to have me read to him, he will begrudgingly read to me, but when it comes to on his own reading, for the most part he is uninterested. For me it was a total shock! I love reading and even as a young child would take a whole pile of books into my room for alone time. G bear is the same as me. She'll sit on the couch for an hour just flipping though books. If she knows the story she may mumble it under her breathe, but she is also content just to look. That makes sense to me. No alone reading doesn't. So I asked the librarian for some suggestions. She offered cartoon books and then also non-fictions on topics he's interested in. The first one she picked up, Mission to the Moon. Ironically just the week before we'd been in Houston, Texas at the Space Center. The information is presented in short fact with lots of pictures...amazing pictures!!!! The history is amazing. There was stuff to learn even for these parents....like did you know this picture famous picture is actually Buzz Aldrin. I've seen this picture many times in my life and always assumed it was Neil Armstrong. He may have been the first man on the moon but he had a partner, and that partner snapped this shot of his own footprint. Crazy. Anyway both kids loved it and so did their mom.
Mission to the Moon - Definitely Recommend
