We recently had some family friends over for dinner. During the meal, as I’m inclined to do, I asked 8-year-old M what was the last really good book she’d read.
“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” she replied. Now, that had been one of my very favorites when I was a little older than her, but that was a long time ago, and I couldn’t remember whether it might still be a little too intense for my own 7-year-old S.
“So, were there any especially scary parts?” I asked.
“Not really,” she replied.
Come to think of it, basic chunks of the book’s plot were missing from my memory, so I asked M to remind me how the girl found herself alone on the island in the first place.
She obliged, telling how the girl had missed the boat when the other islanders left — “and then her younger brother was killed by wild dogs…”
All adult eyes turned from M to her right, where her own little brother sat obliviously eating his salad.
A siblings! What a great story!
A siblings! What a great story!
A siblings! What a great story!
Very funny! I had FIVE of them little rascals when I was growing up, and most of them young enough for me to have to boysit…
Very funny! I had FIVE of them little rascals when I was growing up, and most of them young enough for me to have to boysit…
Very funny! I had FIVE of them little rascals when I was growing up, and most of them young enough for me to have to boysit…