Sometimes the uber-readers require the most strategy, as they low-ball reading choices to fit in with peers.
Last week, fourth-grade Elida gleefully accepted the suggestion of Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks. Thin, pictures, perfect. This week, we'll go double-or-nothing with The Wonderful O.
Pirate Black hates the letter O, after his mother's tragic death-by-porthole. Aided by an attorney (naturally), Black reduces a captive community to an O-free existence.
" 'Chaotic is now chatic,' he said, 'a cross between chaos and static.' He decided that farmers could keep their cows if they kept them in herds, for cows in herds are kine or cattle. And so the people had milk and cheese and butter. He decided in favor of hens and eggs, if hens were segregated. 'Keep them out of flocks,' he said, 'for flocks are not only flocks, but also poultry.' "
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