I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before, but Kevin Henkes is one of my favorite children's authors. He's the creator of Lilly. Anyhow, he also writes books for much younger children and his style (both writing and illustrating) is so different than his Lilly books, but equally as delightful. Anyhow, this afternoon I read his book "A Good Day" to Cee-cee as I was putting her down for a nap and it occurred to me that bad days can turn into good ones so quickly, and sometimes things that make a day bad initially, can be what makes the day good. He starts out like this....
"Little yellow bird lost his favorite tail feather. Little white dog got her leash all tangled up in the fence. Little orange fox couldn't find his mother. And little brown squirrel dropped her nut. BUT THEN....
Little brown squirrel found the biggest nut ever. Little orange fox turned around, and there was his mother. Little white dog worked herself free and ran in circles through the dandelions. And little yellow bird forgot about his feather and flew higher than he ever had before. And there's more... A little girl spotted a perfect yellow feather, picked it up, tucked it behind her ear, and ran to her mother, shouting,
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