Phone call from a famous author ...

See H has this love of chapter books. Mostly Junie B. Jones books and Magic Tree House books. She's been zooming through book after book for several months now. She even knows the authors names and talks about the authors as if she knows them.

So the other day I got a new cell phone (yay me!), mine was ancient and it was time to update (yay me!). So I gave my old phone to the girls to play with, Bob had an old one too so they had two phones to play with. (They STILL managed to find a way to fight over them and today BOTH phones have been in 'toy time out' all day!!)

Anyway, the girls have been so funny lately, wandering around the house pretending to talk to this person or that person ... really acting as if they're having real conversations on these old cell phones (don't worry, they don't even have a battery in them!).

So this morning H comes rushing to find me with this HUGE smile of excitement on her face. "I just got off the phone with Mary Pope Osborne!!" she exclaims. (The author of the Magic Tree House books.)

"Wow H, what did she say?" I say.

"Oh she was telling me about some new books she's busy writing." H replies.

"Very cool H, I'm so glad you got to talk to her ... I hope you told her how much you enjoy her books." I said.

"Oh I did. And she told me that I should try to read the ones I've missed ... since I skipped a few titles I need to go back and read the ones I've missed." she replies.

I couldn't help but walk away with a smile. What a great imagination! For her to act like she had a real conversation and be so excited about it was so cute! And I love that she seemed to admire this wonderful author ... perhaps one day she'll be the author who's recieving (fake) phone calls from a little girl who's reading a book by her?? You never know ...