Books...

So the girls bring home books every night according to their reading level. We sit, read and enjoy learning about new things-- most of the time. Granted I know there is only so many things you can write about at each reading level but come on people-- "My Worm Farm!" PLEASE! I've read books about bugs, animals, snakes and my personal favorite, "Mammals and their young." The book explains how each animal cares for it's young and it comes to the part about humans-- I'm thinking, this ought to be good. It says, "Humans are the most dependent mammals. The young cannot do anything for it's self. (I'm painfully aware of that one...) Each parent has to dress, feed, clothe, bathe, and care for the human child." Why didn't they tell me that when I was in school? What they failed to mention in their short synopsis of the human species is that the human child will quickly gain skills that it will then use to torcher it's parent with. It will learn to speak and start to say things like, "She swallowed my Lego! or My poopies are ouchie!" It will then learn to run which it will use as a quick escape from it's parent. (Hmmm, I'm not sure why they left those details out of the book....) I'm feeling so educated from our nightly reading times. I have to say the "Worm Farm" almost made me hurl. I was also a little woosie with the "All about Spiders" book. (If you must know it's the beady spider eyes that really get to me.) I'm not asking for much, just something nongraphic like trees or something. Who doesn't like a good tree book? Anything but another book explaining the disgusting habits of some little creepy thing. Tomorrow we are lined up for a riveting book called "Pig's skin." Yeah, I know, I'm lucky...