My six-and-a-half-year-old daughter in the car yesterday…
Written on May 12, 2008
“Dad, you know why I like books about knights and princesses and fantasy things? Because they make me feel like I want to go to those places even though I know they’re not real. I like that feeling. Do you know what I mean?”
I do, sweetie. I know exactly what you mean.
So many of us know exactly what it means, but it still does our little bibliophilic hearts good to hear someone else–especially someone so young–say it.