Firsts

My first great-niece, a kindergartner, loves book magic: stories, characters, settings, covers, print, even paper and ink. She's a genuine bookworm, whose appetite has been fueled by her nightly book time with her mother.

Now the first of four "greats" to read and write on her own, without prompting, she sent this postcard to me, another book lover in the family. The words, lovely as they are, shine nowhere near as brightly as the writer who made them.