Visit to the op shop

We have been reading lots of books lately, with an emphasis on Rosie Sips Spiders, BANANA!, Who Sank the Boat?, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy and Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo. Spot's had a bit of airplay, but interest in him seems to be waning. Ben's getting too old for him now anyway.

The little gem you see on the left is the result of a visit to the op shop last week. Instead of coming out with doll's cradle, I left with a brand new copy of Madagascar Movie Storybook for $1. The movie is one of our favourites - can't quite say the same for the book which contains about 0.05% of what's in the movie.

That's a bit unfair of me really because it is a picture book after all. It has got some of Marty the Zebra's great lines in it that I can do in my best Chris Rock voice as well as the lead penguin's "Cute and cuddly boys, cute and cuddly". Benji giggles through most of this book, which I abridge even further such that we launch between one quote to the next - no storyline to speak of. Best of all are the illustrations - isn't that usually the case? - which are 1960s Golden Book style. We've had at least an hour of entertainment from this book already, which isn't bad for $1.

Sadly our library books are going to cost us more than that because we didn't get to the library last Wednesday and I keep forgetting to renew them. We'll take them back this Wednesday instead and get a new batch, which must include Mr Gumpy's Outing or Mr Gumpy's Motor Car or anything else by John Burningham.