Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I wasn’t feeling the emotional roller coaster that is my current audiobook today–not on the Sabbath.  Luckily, my hold on Andrew Clements’ Frindle came in this weekend, and so while I got in my elliptical time and then worked on our current puzze–a 1,000-piecer this time–I listened to the whole thing.

It was a pleasure.

I know not everyone grew up in a small town, in a traditional sort of elementary school, with teachers that had been teaching for years and doing a good job of it, but I was blessed to.  Clements captures the traditional, slightly white-picket-fence growing up experience beautifully, and his students and teachers are the perfect mix of fun and discipline and tradition and innovation and–oh, all the feels.  I am a teacher both by nature and by education, and I was generally an engaged student, and Frindle was a perfect bit of homey, slightly-fairy-tale-ish nostalgia.  Nick is thoroughly likable, Mrs. Granger a teacher to remember, and the birth of a word makes for some educationally entertaining lessons on language.  I’m excited to pass this one on to my son!