Lets Race

I read the Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo last night, because my son had seen an ad for the movie, and thought it looked good. We tried to request it from the library, but everyone else had the same idea, so we were on a long list, so I requested it from his school library, and as luck would have it, they both became available to us Wednesday. So we decided to read it together.
I don't know how after knowing my child for his entire life he can still surprise me, but he did. He reads as quickly as I do. We each sat on the couch and cruised through the book in one evening. I had to get up to help my other son with something, and when I came back to the couch, he was 30 pages ahead of me.
And he finished before me, was able to answer my questions, and told me he didn't care for the story. Now it is a children's book, but it was 200+ pages, with 4 seperate story lines intertwined, and he kept up.
Anyway- the book was cute, satisfying and will be cute as a movie. And now we can see it together and have another discussion about the relative merits of book and film. He thinks it will be good, even though he didn't care for the book. We'll see.