The part that cracks me up - and is such a new experience for me - is they are now comparing book notes. K1 will come home and announce that her friend "has read this book, and says its the best ever, and she MUST READ IT NOW" - heh. And she will pester until she gets it. So, i usually let her drag her father out to Barnes & Nobels that evening on the quest for the BEST BOOK EVER. (the first time it was "The Diary of the Wimpy Kid", then it was all the Royal Diaries,....)
This week is is some thing strange called "Tokyo Mew Mew" ?!? And she tells me it is a comic book - and it is THE BEST EVER, and of course - IT MUST BE LOCATED - and how soon can we go to a comic book store? I compromise on Half Price Books because "hey - they have comic books", and not to mention her sister has suddenly seen the light and started reading. (can you hear the angles sing?) K2 is "a big fan" of the Magic Tree House books - just starting this week after getting 2 from Grandma - and she wants more - gasp- so, I'm getting as many as she will read and i know Half Price books has a shelf full of them.
So, we get about 5 Magic tree house books, and i walk over to the comic book section. But K1 says 'NOT THOSE, its this backwards book thingy' - oh brother, I'm in over my head here. But on the side shelf under the comics books - THERE IT IS. It is a book, and you read it backwards, and it is in the "Manga" section. Manga? *sigh* - there is another new word for me. (japanese comic books, apparently)
I'm a bit bothered because some Japanese Animation - well - isn't exactly 3rd grade appropriate. But she shows me the "4 kids" sign on the back and not the '17+' on a similar looking one i had picked up in the same section.
So, now I've learned about Magna and that Tokyo Mew Mew is about an 11 year old crime fighting super heroine and how the A LA MODE book we found wasn't the best, and oh yeah - she can get them on Amazon if she can talk her Dad into it.....
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It's amazing what you learn as a parent, isn't it? I've been down the road of manga and now it's anime (for D, that is). N is not at all interested. Before too long, you will know all about the series and characters. :)
Yes, a week ago i had no idea what Manga was. On Saturday we went to Borders books on a whim and they had 2 1/2 huge shelfs of nothing but Manga. Katherine's eyes just lit up, and it was a busy section.
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