A Book A Week #51: Don’t Make Me Stop This Car!

Sophie got me this book for Christmas.  That needs some explanation.

This year we wanted to teach Sophie about giving gifts as well as getting them, so we loaded up the car on Christmas Eve and headed to Thrift Smart.  Then Katie and I took turns taking Sophie around and shopping for the other parent.  It was a lot of fun and on Christmas Eve teachers got 50% off.  There was some guidance from us, but some things Sophie just picked on her own.

If you have ever watched Al Roker on television, then what you see is what you get.  Reading this book I could hear his voice in my head speaking.  There were some corny jokes (that’s Al), and his love of cartoons came shining through (I think Sophie picked it because of the cover that’s not shown in the image above, but one Al drew for the paperback), but there was a little more depth than you get from us watching him do the weather.  I disagreed with some of what he had to say on parenting, but I found his opening up to share about his world of divorce, adoption, infertility, and marriage quite touching (not necessarily in that order).

If you like Al, give this one a try.  I’m not a Roker fan, but I am a Sophie fan, and that’s why I read it.  Through that, I came to appreciate Al Roker a little more.