Another slice of life strip (Issue 106). Tess is an avid reader. Actually, avid is not quite descriptive enough. She devours books. As her teacher last year told us, you never want to tell a kid, “stop reading” but with Tess, you had to. Her nose is always in a book. She easily reads several hundred books a year. Linus, on the other hand, doesn’t like to read. We are hard-pressed to get him to read anything at all. That is, unless it is video game based. Give him a 300 page book on Pokemon and he’ll tear through it. I always thought it was dorky that they made books based on cartoon episodes, but considering that’s the only thing my boys will read (Monty is right behind Linus), I can understand and appreciate them now.