Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson has been one of the Lone Star Baby's favorite board books since she was a teeny-tiny baby. She is rather fond of owls in general and these owl babies are charming and sweet. She now likes to recite parts of it when we are not reading it at all and likes creep me out by pointing to words on its pages - "Back soon!" - and saying them (I am not calling this reading; it is memory with a good head for sequencing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it). The book is about three baby owls who wake in the night to find that their mother is gone and get very worried. They are way-happy when she comes back and the story basically emphasizes the mama-always-comes-back mantra. I think many younger babies would not find the point very useful, having no sense of time, but the Lone Star Baby is starting to get it. Our mornings have been pretty rough lately, with the new school and all, but this morning when we pulled up at her school, which has been her cue for loud wailing so far, the conversation went like this:
LSM: Here we are at school!
LSB: (smiling at me) Back soon!
Now that is some useful children's literature!
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