I think he heard me!
Noah has been making books lately. They all star Peanut the Super Dog or Peanut the Detective and they’re very cute. This is the plot of one:
Peanut the Detective and her friend are walking on the beach. They see a shark! Everyone is running away! Close-up shot of Peanut thinking. She has an idea! She chases the shark and catches him. The next page is the shark being held by police, with his mask off and tears running down his face. The end! Peanut is a hero!!!
I asked Noah why the shark was crying and he said, “He’s crying because he’s really a good guy. He was mad at someone and thought he would have revenge by scaring him with a shark costume. He feels bad because he did a bad thing but he’s really good.”
“What happened to him after the police caught him?” I asked.
“He had to go to jail but he only had to stay two or three days because he’s really good.”
“What did he do in jail?”
“Played a lot of ping-pong!”
Noah is making another Peanut book now. He says all of the bad guys are really good guys who did one bad thing because they were mad. See? I think he heard me!
He lost his second tooth last night, a top one this time. He’s lisping and so darling and grown-up and funny-looking; he just breaks my heart.
Ran into you by accident — I love the Moomin books as well: peaceful, hopeful, frentic, loving, magical. You might like _the midnight folk_ by John Masefield — it’s hard to find, but good for some of the same reasons (although a little darker than the moomins — I’d read it before passing it to a kid).