Year 3, week 22: Roald Dahl

This week's books (four for the price of one!):
The Giraffe, and Pelly and Me
The Magic Finger
The Enormous Crocodile
Esio Trot
By Roald Dahl

This past weekend our middle baby came down with the stomach flu on the way home from my in-laws’ house. The hubs and I were going to go on a date, but instead we had a four and a half year old getting sick all over the back of our fairly new cookie monster blue van. People say that marriage is flowers and dates and romance, but sometimes it's giving a pathetic little one a bath while your husband is disassembly two car seats and Clorox/Lysoling our van. I married a good man that I am insanely lucky to have.

Since little lady has been sick, I decided to read to her some books while she tried to rest. She loves Roald Dahl's shorter novels, so I read the ones we have in the house. The Giraffe, and Pelly and Me, The Magic Finger, The Enormous Crocodile, and Esio Trot were the ones we have. I'll be honest I have a love/hate relationship with the books of Dahl. Some of his books are amazing and I have read and re-read so many times, but some (The Witches, I'm talking about you) still give me nightmares to this day. But the four short novellas that our little girl and I have read together are just fun.

The Giraffe, and Pelly and Me is the story of a boy who befriends a giraffe, monkey and a pecan that wash windows. It's okay, but not my favorite. It kinda seems like too many ideas all slammed into one story.

The Magic Finger, is the story of a girl with a magic finger who gets mad at her next door neighbors for hunting and teaches them a lesson. I vaguely remember hearing this story as a child. I really enjoyed this book with it's anti hunting stance. Definitely should read it.

The Enormous Crocodile, a story of a naughty croc that makes all the other animals mad so they ruin the chances of him eating little kids. I liked this one too, just not as much as The Magic finger.

Esio Trot, is the story of a man that is in love with the woman that lives in the same apartment building as him. She loves her pet turtle and is dumb as a box of rocks, so the main character uses these facts to get the women to fall in love with him. It's an okay story, but just not my favorite.

So those are the books for this week, now let's hope the rest of us don't get this flu.