Today do yourself a favor and ask your third or fourth grade child to tell you about a chapter book they’ve recently read or are reading

At first I thought I was being told a true story because she was so expressive about it

There were lots of hand motions

Lots of using words like ‘stuff’ and ‘thing’ for describing

And I knew less about the plot of the story when she was done than when she started

I wish I had thought to record

I can’t really remember specifics

But I can tell you it was delightful to listen