Here at the Curmudgucation Institute, we have recently turned that corner and are now deeply interested in literature. The board of directors here at the Institute has become interested in many of the classics (and by “interested” I mean “interested in having them read aloud 20 or 30 times per hour”). But while we are deeply committed to Is Your Mama a Llama and Cleo and The I Love You Book and Feminist Baby and all the Llama Llama books, there is one book that commands our loyalty and devotion above all others.
Hop on Pop.
You can see here– this is how much we love Hop on Pop. It is the first book that we have actually worn out enough to require duct tape intervention. Because I have had the opportunity to read this book roughly seventy squintillion times, I can’t really resist the urge to apply some analysis via Close Reading 2.0, the Common Core-flavored version championed by literature-teaching whiz David Coleman.