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I met my new friend Tacy when our mission group set up a clinic in her remote hometown of Duey in the Dominican Republic. Tacy is a two-year-old charmer with an irrepressible laugh and new sparkly shoes, the adored youngest member of her extended family, and she was my eager audience when I sat down to read Dónde Está Spot? in my very bad Spanish. It may have been the first book that Tacy had ever held in her hands. Everything about it was funny, and amazing, and exciting; she screamed with joy every time she found a monkey or a bear under one of the flaps, and soon Tacy had pretty much devoured the book in every way possible. It was wonderful to see her first encounter with words and pictures that tell a story in a book.
The toddlers in Books Always Everywhere are discovering books, much like Tacy did. They build with books, sit on them, and crawl under and over them. They read them in a tree, at the beach, in their cozy beds. They wear them like hats, they share them with a friend . . . whatever you can do with a ...