Giggity: Finding Fun Stuff for Kids

By Luisa LaFleur, The Children’s Book Review Published: July 28, 2009 Everybody has days when we wish we could be someone else, or do something else. Kids, too. I know my three-year-old is always trying on new hats (figuratively and literally!). I recently came across a book that helps our little ones see it’s okay if they aren’t too good at one thing because that gives them the opportunity to try something else. Gone With The Wand by Margie Palatini (Author), Brian Ajhar (Illustrator) Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Orchard Books (April 15, 2009) In Gone with the Wand, by Margie Palatini, one little fairy has lost the will to be a fairy godmother. She’s got a kind of "fairy-block" and she can twirl her wand around but nothing much happens. To help her out of her quandry, her tooth-fairy friend gets her to try out different fairy occupations: fairy dusting, snow fairy, sugarplum fairy….but she isn’t very good at any of them. They keep at it and eventually find the fairy’s calling. This cute story is a perfect example of the persistence of trying. It was lots of fun to read and its underlying messages of…