Kids
Book Review: Monday Is One Day by Arthur A. Levine
What’s your favorite day of the week? I bet lots of you will say Saturday or Sunday. Those are the days many parents don’t have to work and can spend the day with their kids.
Sometimes it’s hard to understand why parents have to go to work. Monday Is One Day lets you know what parents are thinking when they leave their kids: “The hardest part of going to work is being apart from you.”
Besides, there are lots of ways you can spend time with your parents during the week. In this book, six families spend every second that they can together.
One of the families is a little boy with two dads (plus one dog). On Friday, the boy helps one of his dads pick out a tie before going to work. Then, on the weekend, they get to spend all day together. All the families have fun going to the park, picnicking, sailing boats, dog-walking, reading books, and playing ball.
This book was written by one dad who was thinking about how much he would miss his son when he went back to work. He knew how much parents and kids miss each other when they are apart. But his book gives good advice: Make the most of the little moments you have together!
Monday Is One Day is available at Amazon.com and is illustrated by Julian Hector.
Author
Assistant Kids section editor Hannah Crawford graduated from Carleton College with a major in English and a concentration in Latin American Studies. Apart from reading, her great love is theater, which is one of the many reasons she is very excited to have recently moved to Minneapolis.
