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As the nomination period for the Abunga.com Kids’ Choice Book Award comes to a close I am in awe at the variety of books chosen by our young readers.  In looking at the report that shows all the books nominated and read this summer it got me thinking about how we sometimes gently nudge our children towards entertainment that we think they would like instead of what we know they like.

Sometimes this strategy of picking something for my kids that I think they will like often backfires – I read or watch something that I think my kids would like and they look at me like I am crazy.  At other times the outcome provides me with some delayed gratification.  About four years ago I bought my oldest son the book The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson.  It sat on his bookshelf for three years before he picked it up to read “because he was “bored”.  He read the book within a day and then came to me asking urgently for the other two in the series: The Rise of the Wyrm Lord and The Final Storm.  Kids are so funny!

~Kerri