Scary stories

It's been a long time since I read regularly to Ellie. We used to do it pretty much every night, but then she got kind of bored with it. We've tried a few different things, but nothing really held her attention as well as I would like.

This week I was lent a copy of Coraline and I suggested it. I told her it was kind of scary and implied she might not be up to it, because I thought it would capture her imagination. It has. The book has almost no pictures in it (I believe people like Linda refer to those as "chapter" books), but we've kept with it anyway, to the tune of more than 100 pages so far.

Maybe we'll have to look at Goosebumps books next...