18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: When you give a monarch a bear

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hee! I'm glad it entertained you. :D

and the title (having had to read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie approximately seventeen billion times to the kiddos).

Yeah, it occurred to me belatedly that our European salon members might not get the reference, and I've been meaning to explain that there is a classic children's picture book called If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. And yes, reading it to your kids seventeen billion times is basically obligatory*. ;)

I also went back and forth on whether to use "When" or "If" in the title, and it was FW's well-attested bear(s) that decided me. :)

* I only have one memory of my father reading to any of us kids, and it was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to one of my sisters. I remember being shocked at the time when I walked into the room, enough to have formed a strong and permanent association between that book and "OMG Dad reading to one of us?" My parents encouraged us to read on our own, but they stopped reading to us once we hit the age of about 3 or 4, so memories of being read to are pretty thin on the ground.

Re: When you give a monarch a bear

[cahn]

Heh. When my kids were little my mom told me multiple times that I should teach them how to read early, because then they'd read to themselves and I wouldn't have to! Which might tell you something about her :) (On the other hand, she was right!)