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About a week ago, I went to Borders with Zoe and Maria. As soon as we walked in the door, I spotted this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Crazy-Little-Tracy-Gallup/dp/1934133132

It caught my eye because Zoe is crazy for rocks and because the whimsical cover just made me think of her. I showed it to her, picked it up, and we quickly read it. It was so sweet and lovely and wonderful I teared up reading it. We bought it. After four or five readings, Zoe now has it memorized. She actually looks at the words as she recites, using them to remind herself. She takes it to bed with her every night and gazes at the pictures as she falls asleep. I must have the next one, Shell Crazy and any others by this woman. They are the neatest concepts and so perfectly Zoe. She has a HUGE collection of rocks and sea shells in her room. I mean ridiculous. I don't know how to store them all or display them. She spends hours pouring over them, arranging them, looking at them. After reading Stone Crazy, she is even more into them, and it seems to have opened another world for her. Every trip outside, even just to get in the car, is an opportunity to look for stones.

The book is written in first person. When she recites the book, turning the pages slowly, lovingly, it sounds like she is speaking about herself. It is so perfect.

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