A week or two ago my mom sent Gracie about a dozen American Girl books that she had bought at her library's used book sale. I had been thinking about reading some books to Gracie that were a little bit longer and more complex than the picture books we usually check out from the library, so these came at a good time. I think they will be fun stories for Gracie, and I like the fact that they give a picture of what life might have been like for a girl living in a different time period in our country's history. (I do occasionally have to skip a word or two (dumb, for example) that I don't want to be part of Gracie's vocabulary, though.)
We started reading about Molly, a nine-year-old girl living in 1944. Gracie has seemed to really enjoy listening to the stories, and it has been fun to watch her act them out in detail. I think Gracie's favorite book about Molly is Molly Saves the Day by Valerie Tripp. Molly Saves the Day is set at Camp Gowonagin, where Molly went for summer camp. For the last week Gracie has been draping blankets over chairs to make a tent and pretending that an empty laundry basket or diaper box is her canoe. It is funny to hear her narrate her actions as she acts out the story: "Molly climbed into her canoe..." and she's off on another adventure.
This afternoon I started reading Meet Josefina (set in New Mexico in 1824) to Gracie. We've only read two chapters so far, so it will be interesting to see if she relates as strongly to Josefina as she did to Molly.
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