Shannon has been reading A-cat Moby Dick, after reading her two picture books, but before singing, at bedtime. I am not sure why, but she seems to like it. Shannon told me about a conversation they had that went like this:

A- Who is Queequeg?

S- He’s Ishmael’s friend, a harpooneer.

A- What’s a harpooneer.

S- It’s a person who carries a harpoon, which is like a spear, and hunts whales

A- To kiss them?

S- Something like that.

Then tonight she told her brother that he was Queequeg, and that they were going to hunt whales. We asked her who she was and she responded, “Mishmael,” and then ran off to her boat.

Mishmael on her boat

Update: We decided that she was understanding too much, so Shannon abandoned this book for another one.