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I recently borrowed Weird U.S.: your travel guide to America's local legends and best kept secrets from the library. I thought I might find the largest ball of twine and the like. The book does offer some interesting attractions (though it won't tell you were to find a Midgetville), but it doesn't seem to have them in any sort of order. I can't search attractions by state or highway or really even a topic. The attractions are ordered as such:

• Introduction
  
• Local Legends
  
• Ancient Mysteries
  
• Fabled People and Places
  
• Unexplained Phenomena
  
• Bizarre Beasts
  
• Local Heroes and Villains
  
• Personalized Properties
  
• Roadside Odyssey
  
• Roads Less Traveled
  
• Gateways to Hell
  
• Haunted Places, Ghostly Tales
  
• Cemetery Safari
  
• Abandoned in America

So yeah, they are separated by a sort of topic breakdown, but this sort of organization just doesn't suit my needs (or desires) at all. Interesting book, but I only skimmed through it.

They also have a website where you can submit suggestions for future collections of attractions: Weird U.S.. It looks like they're working on compiling the list by state (and category) there. They only have 11 states so far.

Touch and Feel: Playtime (from Dorling Kindersley) - I always enjoy these, but worry about germs (especially when getting them from the library). Sasha isn't ready for them yet, but I read this one to her and put her foot on the textures as well as her hand.




Baby! Talk! - This was a really fun book to talk about to Sasha. It has a few words in it, but mostly lots of pictures of babies to match the word on the page. It was a lot of fun and I think she'll enjoy it more as she gets bigger.




Kid Tea - is a very cute rhyming story, but a little too long to maintain the attention of a 3-month-old. The colors are nice, but not quite enough contrast for her, either. However, when Veronica read it to Sasha tonight, she listened intently to the entire book.




Who am I? - This is one of those silly fun books with which you get very physical. It has handles on the sides (when open) and peep holes so that you hold the book up like a mask. "Moo. Moo. Who am I?" This will be a great quizzy book to play with Sasha later. For now, Veronica had great fun reading it to the baby.

We're having to help her sleep all propped up. We have one end of the bassinet propped up.

She gave a happy squeal in her bath today! It was her first big happy squeal.

I had to give her her first dose of medicine tonight. It is nasty sticky orange flavored crap. I should have looked up tips before I tried to give it to her. I hope she got enough IN her!

I checked out Black on White from the local library. It is a picture board book with black images on white backgrounds. Sasha LOVES it! It snags her attention, even from nursing! I thought the choice of images was... random. And there are no words at all. But the images are stark and stand out. I see now that there is also a White on Black so I have requested it from the library, too.

For her birthday, Veronica got a book she wanted entitled How to Find Flower Fairies - Discover an enchanted fairy world.

If you love books about faeries and letting your imagination run wild, this book is SO wonderful! It is a gorgeous popup book, so I recommend assisting a child with it. It would be easy to damage the pages.

I could probably go on and on about this book, but company just arrived, so I'll sign off now. I think my dad got it at Sam's.

EDIT: Here is a link to the book on Amazon.com with photos. There are also a couple of other books there credited to Cicely Mary Barker. (If you're really into faeries, you probably recognize this name.)