{"id":3999,"date":"2006-03-18T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T00:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/an-occasional-review.html"},"modified":"2006-03-18T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T00:24:53","slug":"an-occasional-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/an-occasional-review.html","title":{"rendered":"An occasional review&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes highlight children&#8217;s books here. Not high literature, exactly, not the classics, but new titles that have engaged the almost-reader in our household and not bored his mother by repeated readings. <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s winner is:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060745142\/002-7123946-9849632?v=glance&amp;n=283155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0060745142.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" width=\"220\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060745142\/002-7123946-9849632?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Amazon listing here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checked it out on Sunday. Have had to read it <em>every night<\/em> since, and I&#8217;m thinking this might appear with the birthday presents. Joseph <em>loves <\/em>this, and I agree that amid the 2,000,000+ ABC books out there, this one stands out&nbsp; &#8211; it&#8217;s a large book, and the illustrations, by a veteral comic book artist, are eye-popping and strong. The text is clever &#8211; each letter is illustrated by a newly-created superhero &#8211; who rains on robbers, weaves through water, and so on. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0805068481\/002-7123946-9849632?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">This was another rather clever ABC book we enjoyed at some point last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Michael told this story in his blog, but I&#8217;ll repeat it here.<\/p>\n<p>One evening in Rome, the children and I were walking down Borgo Pio, on our way to Piazza Navona , and encountered the priest Michael was going to be dining with later in the evening. We chatted, and moved on.<\/p>\n<p>When we returned to the apartment, Michael reported that the priest had said that in this meeting, Joseph had said to him, &quot;You&#8217;re a fat man!&quot; I was, as Michael said accurately on his blog, flabbergasted. Joseph is certainly way too full of himself these days (just a few months ago he was painfully shy&#8230;what happened?) , but I was standing right there, and I knew for a fact he had said no such thing. I thought for just a minute more and realized..ah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What he&#8217;d said was &quot;You&#8217;re Batman!&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Apparently with no Pope available, any old cleric will do. At least he didn&#8217;t tell him he had two heads, as he told&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/zadokromanus.blogspot.com\/\">Zadok.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes highlight children&#8217;s books here. 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Have had to read it every night since, and I&#8217;m thinking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An occasional review... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/an-occasional-review.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An occasional review... - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We sometimes highlight children&#8217;s books here. 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