One of my favorite things to do is pick up my grandson after school once a week. I bring a different book with me every time, whether it’s new or from our home library. When I ordered Merriam-Webster’s First Dictionary on Amazon, I had no idea how much fun the ride back to my house would be!
“What is that?” he asked when he saw the book.
“A dictionary for kids!” I answered. “You can look at it if you’d like.”
He made a soft snorty noise. I thought I’d missed the mark. A few minutes later, though, I heard pages rustling.
“I know what spaghetti is!” he exclaimed with a tone of disdain that only a seven-year-old that knows everything can make.
“Oh,” I responded. “What does it say?”
At that point, he started reading about some different pasta shapes and how they got their name. He was starting to get into it!
“Llama,” he asked, “did you know there’s a song about spaghetti? Do you want to know what it is?”
I feigned surprise and asked him to read it. He did, with a few giggles, but it wasn’t the entire song.
So, I sang it to him.
More giggles were followed by a request to sing it again. By the time we got to my house, he was acquainted with the dictionary, practiced reading without it seeming like a chore, and sang “On Top of Spaghetti” three times.
Some days, he’ll pick it up just to read the jokes in the margins that are related to a word on the same page. Other times, he just looks up a word. No matter how he uses it, it makes me happy to share a love of words with him!
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