Life-long Readers

My oldest son and embarked on a journey a couple of weeks ago. Instead of the usual nightly reading of a books that were short, wherein we could read 3-4 entire books each night, he opted to start a much longer chapter book, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, and so each night we would read a chapter or two until last night when we finally finished the book. The challenge for him was to remember where the story left off and pick it up again the next night, sometimes with major cliff-hangers. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience (and of course, I thoroughly enjoyed sharing a love of books with my son). Our middle son would join in too on several nights, though he's not quite ready for stories that don't end right away. So after we would finish reading a part of the Peter Pan, I would usually read a short book or two with him as well.
Last night my oldest was so thrilled to have actually finished the book that he immediately wanted to start another long one. He dashed off to his room and retrieved another classic from his bookshelf, this time Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. We embark on our journey to 12th century England tonight!