Be My Pal by Bill Joyce

I don't know why Owen likes this book so much, but it is one of the 2 that he asks for directly…saying 'lo, lo, lo.'  I was just going to suggest that he likes it because we've been reading it to him since he was a baby, but I just realized he's shown a preference for this book since we started reading to him.  Well, no accounting for taste I guess since I think the book stinks.  

There is not real plot, the rhyming is in place just to rhyme and the illustrations are lousy.  It does have a little sing songy verse to it though so it can be read, sung and generally played with…its short too, which is lucky…after 250 readings it's the only thing that has kept us from lighting it on fire.

In the end I don't like the book, but I'm not the one that counts.  Owen loves it……

….still.