Cheesy Magic Tricks

We went to the library for Scary Reading Hour. This month's reader does "Cheesy Magic Tricks" between books. One of the tricks involves a pretty gruesome looking plastic eyeball that disappears and reappears in a plastic vase. The reader tried to check in with A before the reading session to see if he would be OK with the trick.

Ooops.

A turned bright red and started crying. (This from the kid who routinely wants to make people walk the plank or blow things up.) He was inconsolable and we had to leave about one page into the first book (he was dreading when the magic would start). So we looked up a book about trains on the card catalog computer and then A asked one of the other children's librarians for a set of checkers to play with. All of our bags and jackets and stuff were still in the reading room because I though I'd be able to talk A into going back in.

Some checker-stacking filled time later, A (in response to the librarian's and my promptings about the Cheesy Magic Tricks) started to recite "The Whoes Down in Who-ville liked Cheesy Magic a lot. But the Grinch who lived North of Who-ville did not. 'I must find some way to stop Cheesy Magic from coming.'"

I suppose it's a good thing A doesn't know where the Cheesy Magician lives. And if he does find out, I hope the house doesn't have a chimney.

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In slightly different library news.... we got a French / English CD of kids' songs. One of them is "This Old Man / Knick-knack." We'd been listening to it for a while until I realized A was singing "Thistle Man, He Played One..."

Hmmm. The Thistle Man. Don't tell Tim Burton.