National Read Across America Day!

To celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday - it is National Read Across America Day!
Like millions of other children, my kids learned how to read by reading Dr. Seuss books. I love the witty words and the lesson's these books teach. We have a whole collection of these books, but my favorite is one that not many people know about. It was written in 1938 and it is called the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.Unlike most of Dr. Seuss's other books, it was written in prose rather than rhyming.
It talks about a poor boy named Bartholomew Cubbins who takes off his hat as the king passes by, because that is the law, but another hat magically appears on his head. The king's procession stops and the king tells him to take off his hat, so he does and then another one appears. This keeps happening so he is arrested and taken to the castle. Several wise men are brought in and no one can figure out what to do because each time Bartholomew takes off his hat, the new hat is even better than the last one. In the end, the 500th hat is magnificant and the king offers him 500 pieces of gold for the hat.
As we go through life, each of us takes off one hat and another one automatically is put one. When I took off my graduates cap when I graduated from college, I got married and immediately put on my wife crown, and then I added a mother crown and so on. The remarkable thing is, each new hat gets better and better!

So grab a book, maybe, "The Power Of A Penny," and cuddle up with a blanket - you don't have to have an excuse, because the government is telling you to sit down and read today!