Toby Price

Every second of it.

I Need a New Butt followed by I Broke My Butt.

My butt is noisy, yes, my personal favorite.

And most recently we were at the Walmart and we found a copy of My Butt is So Silly and we all kind of clamored over who was gonna get to grab it off the shelf and read it first.

And we got in the car and we read it on the way home and we laughed and we giggled because kids need those silly books, those funny books.

That's what hooks them into being readers and becoming readers.

Well, let's fast forward from that time to Read Across a Miracle Week, Dr. Seuss's birthday.

I was an assistant principal.

in a school and my boss asked me to set up a Zoom meeting with 12 second grade classes and a principal of a nearby building who would be their principal next year.

I got you, no problem.

So all 12 classes logged into the Zoom and I was the host and I looked at my watch and our guest reader was not there.

I text her.

No answer.

I called.

Nothing.

I told my boss what had happened, and she said, you go ahead and read.

So I turned around and looked in my shelf, and there it was.

I needed to hook these kids.

I needed them to laugh.

I was going to grab I Need a New Butt by Don McMillan.