It’s been a struggle to get the 9-year-old to read books that aren’t graphic novels. (Nothing wrong with graphic novels, but I’m a novelist and would love to get the kid hooked on pure text novels if I can.) Anyway, the kid loves to check little free libraries when we pass them…
The other night, we passed a little free library with several Animorphs novels, which reminded me I have all the e-books and have been meaning to read them.
Everyone else was interested too, so we’ve turned it into a sort of family race. The 9-year-old loves races.
We’re all reading the first Animorphs book and tracking how far each of us is on a whiteboard. The plan is to just try to read through all of them.
So far, we’re all loving the first one, and I’ve never seen the 9-year-old this excited about reading before.