Parker read his first book to me last night–first one cover-to-cover–and I was just floored. We’ve gone page-for-page before, I’ve never gotten the “look” before like I did last night. The “look” consists of part disappointment and part “aw, come on Dad, I can do it myself!”
So I let go, and he took over.
Our book was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. I don’t remember what the first book I read to my parents was, maybe they can fill in here, but I know this: if it gave them anything approaching the amount of emotion that it gave me, I know they didn’t forget either. So today, as luck would have it, a colleague of mine posted a link to an animated reading of the book by Shel Silverstein himself, circa 1973. Enjoy!
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