Last week I made a Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne joke. No one got it. This fact, combined with the inordinate amount of work and stress that I and everyone I know was experiencing last week (and is experiencing this week, and will experience next week and the week after that) led me to conclude that it was time to bring some children's books to college and read them aloud.

So, for vorindi's library hours this afternoon, I brought a few of my favorites, and we read them in between doing serious work. The three I picked were:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
Possum Magic, by Mem Fox (which is a really cute Australian children's story; I have some pictures from it on my door) and
TACKY, the Penguin by Helen Lester
I think that this was a very good thing to do, but now I have a really strong desire to read A Special Trade. It's probably a good thing that I didn't have it, or I might have collapsed into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West, only without the soapy water. But it would be a good thing to read next week. I hope that Forbes has it.

Over dinner, Talia suggested that we should read Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and something by Dr. Seuss. My vote goes to the one about Sneetches, or The Lorax, or The Places You'll Go.
Oh, and Freight Train, by Donald Crew.

What other suggestions do people have?