A Strange Case

Jack found a new series of books this summer that he really enjoyed.  The first one is called The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and it's about a boy who makes an origami Yoda finger puppet and the finger puppet has all the answers to everything.  We checked out several of the books from the series and Jack liked them so much that he would even spontaneously pick one up and start reading.

An added bonus of the books is that each one includes directions on how to fold Origami Star Wars characters.  When my niece arrived in town to go to BYU for the summer she folded two of them for Jack.

"Darth Flyer" and "Jabba the Puppet"

I wasn't paying close attention to his approach to reading these books and the funny thing is, I didn't realize until he was on the fourth or fifth that he wasn't reading them the way one might traditionally read a chapter book.  I noticed one day that he was about 75% of the way through the book, and the next day he was reading at about 25%.  I asked him about it and he said, "Oh, I just read random pages." I had to laugh at that.

There was something that Jack picked up on from the books, even though he wasn't reading them from start to finish.  I noticed a significant positive correlation between the amount of books he read in this series and the way he was speaking, so we had to nix the books altogether.

He was disappointed, but took it pretty well.  Maybe he wisely hoped that this would mean he wouldn't have to have another washing-out-the-mouth treatment.

(Also, I should probably make more of an effort to screen the books my children are reading... Sheesh.)