Messy Bessy

Tonight Benjamin was doing his reading. He was reading the First Grade thriller Messy Bessy's Holidays. In this book, Bessy is making Kwanzaa cookies with her mother. After making the cookies, Bessy realizes that she is messy and cleans up. This is the common thread in all of these books. You see, the problem that I have with Bessy is that she has not yet seen the error of her ways. She had this little tidiness issue in Messy Bessy's Closet, Messy Bessy's School Desk, Messy Bessy's Garden, Messy Bessy and the Birthday Overnight, and Messy Bessy's Family Reunion (where we learned that Bessy inherited this messiness gene from her litterbug family). Hopefully there will be a book in the future called Less Messy Bessy. Or perhaps Messy Bessy cleans up. The problem with the latter suggestion is that it could imply that Bessy had a substance abuse problem and that is just too deep for 5 year olds. Perhaps Bessy and her mother need Flylady. Despite Bessy's tidiness issues, Benjamin loves her. Since he loves to read her books I don't mind so much. The whole reason for this post was to shamelessly brag on Benjamin (perhaps there should be a book called Kim Bulgrien Can't Just Say What She Means). Tonight he read the words wonderful, everything, and different. I was thrilled!! He sure has picked up this reading thing and gone to town. Good job, Benjamin!!