It is such a great feeling to see your son excited about a new book -- especially one that does not involve any "licensed characters" and has not even been made into a movie.
Yesterday, my kindergarten student came home with the book "George's Secret Key to the Universe," copies of which were being sold at his school.
I had been a little reluctant to send him to school with 15 bucks, because 1) I feared he would lose the money, 2)the book is really for older kids, 3) I am trying to encourage him to use the library and 4)the book is written by Stephen Hawking,(along with his daughter.)I can not understand Stephen Hawking's most famous work, A Brief History of Time, and while I'm no genius, I do have more than a half a year of kindergarten under my belt.
Nevertheless, in a moment of weakness, I sent in the cash. It turns out to be have been money well spent!
I can not yet vouch for the book as a work of literature or even science. It's gotten some nice reviews. I'm fairly confident that it will work on some level. But last night, we read only the first chapter. George has not yet even met the man who is going to teach him about space, including -- the cover says -- all the latest information on black holes. The key to the universe is, I'm guessing, many pages from where we are now.
But I would pay 15 bucks any day to see the look on my son's face when he showed it to me. He said that when he first heard about this book at a school assembly, he thought "it was just going to be an ordinary book." He said he thought it would be short and like the other books kindergarten kids have their parents read to them. "But as soon as I held it in my hands," he said, "I saw that it was totally awesome."
When it came to be rest time, he laid on his mat and turned through ever page and just in telling me about it, he was quivering with excitement over the line drawings of adventure and the full color photos of space.
My husband noted wryly, "So I guess you CAN judge a book by its cover." (Well, that and its pictures!)
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