Dads Read Too

  JER: My favorite children’s books I read in 2020: 1. “ Leave Me Alone ” (3/28/2020) 2. “ Very Little Red Riding Hood ” (2/29/20) 3. “ Triangle ” (8/15/20) 4. “ You Will Be My Friend ” (8/22/20) 5. “ Here We Are ” (2/1/20) Honorable mentions: “ Horrible Bear ” (3/21/20), “ Me . . . Jane ” (6/24/20), & “ We Don’t Eat Our Classmates ” (1/25/20) #bestoflist

JER: “ Here We Are ” by Oliver Jeffers - subtitled: “notes for living on planet earth” is a beautiful exploration of perspective.  Everything gradually gets classified down and defined.  Where do we live?  We live in a solar system that is only one of TRILLIONS in the Universe.  It is remarkable to think we are one solar system out of trillions, that we live on one planet out of eight in our solar system, and we can further classify that down to one part of the earth (i.e. LAND for most of us), to one person out of BILLIONS, and even though we can define ourselves as one of many different shapes, sizes, and colors, we are all still PEOPLE. Most of all, this book left me in awe of the miraculous fact that we EXIST AT ALL.  If you zoom out far enough, you realize we are more similar than we are different.  The books sentiments remind me strongly of Stoicism .  We need to rely on one another when we enter this world, before we leave it, and ...