A free catalog of all of the Playmobil toys you can buy. Specifically, he's going to show his classmates the two pages that feature Native American and soldier figures.
"Soldiers wear all different colors, you know," he told me, remarking on the blue uniforms the soldiers in his book are wearing.
He's fascinated with the catalog, but does he really need to take it to show and tell? He has real Playmobil figures. Wouldn't those be more exciting to his classmates instead of a catalog?
"Isn't that a weird thing to take for show and tell?" Will asked. "Will the other kids laugh at him?
I don't think they will laugh. Some might be staring off into outer-space while Guillermo's talking, but there's nothing unusual about preschoolers acting as if they are on another planet. Guillermo does it all the time. (As a side note, Jupiter is Guillermo's favorite planet.)
I'll keep you posted on how it goes. He's so excited.
After school today, a few of the boys from our neighborhood were playing on our street. One of them let Guillermo look at the Green Lantern comic book he had just checked out from the library. While Guillermo's friends tried unsuccessfully to fly a kite in the still afternoon, Guillermo sat on the curb studying the book. He must have looked at the book for 15 minutes.
Of course, when we returned home, we played Green Lantern outside and Guillermo, acting as the Green Lantern, turned his ring into a submarine and an airplane.
"You really liked that book, didn't you?" I asked him.
He replied: "I was reading it with my imagination."
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My MJ also LOVES catalogs. She's been reading the same Toys R Us coupon book for a week -- I mean, really studying it. You are definitely not alone on that one! She would have found his show-and-tell fascinating.
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