The boys are finally old enough for us to read to them from non-picture books.
Hooray! (Although we still do plenty of picture books.)
We started with Half Magic, which was delightful, on a long car ride. Then we started on Harry Potter.
One of the most enjoyable things about this reading time is observing Victor's imagination and analysis. He loves to stop us mid-sentence to speculate about what will happen or what something means.
For example, when Harry goes into the Forbidden Forest in book 1, he meets some centaurs who observe that Mars is very bright tonight.
When we read this, Victor became excited. "Wait! There is a creature in the forest! If Mars is very bright, it means that Mars is closer to Earth than normal. So that means the creature is a Martian!"
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