When he first asked me to read it, I tried to reason with him that there were no words...no pictures....it's supposed to be a photo album. But no, he would have none of it. So I started to make things up on each page like "this is a snowman in a snow storm". Now the story goes like this: "This is a knight, riding on a white horse through the snow covered forest. He comes upon a white castle. Up high in a white tower is a princess in a white dress who must be rescued from the white dragon who breathes white fire. Here is the knight defeating the dragon and rescuing the princess." The last page is always "this is a picture of Aiden, Logan and Brady wearing white snowsuits playing in the snow". I usually have to read this book twice.



The second book we read was Polar Bear Polar Bear, What do you see? We've read this book quite a few times and now Aiden can name all the animals himself. What I do is say "polar bear polar bear what do you see? I see..." and then flip the page for Aiden who tells me the next animal. I'm always impressed by how quickly kids pick up this kind of stuff. He got things like"whooping crane" and "spider monkey" the second time we went through the book. This picture, however, is always "a nawdy (naughty) eagle!" He always calls things naughty when they have serious faces, and no matter how many times I try to convince him otherwise. Guess that's something we'll have to work on since we want the kid to be patriotic and everything. :)