The Mouse and the Big White Strawberry

Lola is getting awfully verbal. This afternoon, when she came home from school, she asked me to draw a mouse. While I was drawing the mouse, she said what was obviously a title: "The Mouse and the Big White Strawberry." Just as I was recovering from her creative brilliance, she added, "And the Big Hungry Bear." I quickly wrote down this title, in order to Google it and see if there were such a book. I entered "mouse strawberry book" (because I couldn't believe that the "big hungry bear" addition that Lola had made was actually a part of the title). What popped up was the book "The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear." Lola had just successfully remembered a ten-word-long title! She told us that Miss Keisha (her teacher) has the book. We rushed out to the bookstore and bought it. It's very good! Lola can "read" (recite from memory) the first few pages. In the car on the way home, she said "Another" after I read her the book. I said, "Other books are at home." She replied, "I want "Sally."" "Sally" was obviously another book title. I said, "Is Sally a book?" She said, ""Sally" is in Miss Keisha's . . .". Then, since she had just experienced the triumph of the "Little Mouse" purchase, she suggested, "We could go to the store . . . and get "Sally"." A long sentence, even!