Thanks to Bharathi for this fun link. Anselm has had two sessions with this and has really enjoyed them, wanting to do one "game" after another. Lately he has been essentially volunteering to read, usually from his latest Adventure book, the dashing South Sea Adventure (stranded on a bare coral atoll! how to survive? now, we know) every day, but taking a rather hangdog attitude-- "How many pages do I have to read today?". If I say "None", he bargains me up to at least one. But tonight he read three of these little books with pleasure.
Of course, truly reading from Willard Price is not expected to happen soon-- even in reading aloud I paraphrase the '50s dramatic wording of "no small consequence", etc. He does his sight words and selected others. Tonight as the boys escaped on a raft they had brilliantly constructed using the broken beak of a giant squid as an axe and dried strips of its tentacles to lash together the coconut logs, we gave in and resorted to Wikipedia to translate some nautical terms (how deep is a fathom? what is a spar?). Anselm is soaking this stuff in-- this morning, he told me a series of differences between squids and octopi.
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