Fast young git is pushing thirty now, so has long grown out of bedtime stories. ISTR that if it interested me to read, I’d make a bigger effort with a story. The Three Robbers*, and a Very Hungry Caterpillar stick in the mind for this reason.
*Saying about interest: I’d try to add a new item to the list of treasures at each reading, or let him. Thus – gold, jewels, bank books, credit cards, toy cars, that sort of selection.
One of those things you look back on: he ‘read’ it to a little friend one day, word perfect. Friend’s mum was convinced he was already reading, wrong, but he was ready and willing to learn.
