The Boy Finishes the Book

Way back in December, I read The Invention of Hugo Cabret and mentioned the boy was interested enough to read it.

Well, it wasn’t always easy and it definitely took a little bribery along the way, but the boy finally finished the book tonight. Our final carrot for him has been he had to finish it before we’d let him see the movie. When he started today, he had about 100 pages to go. Fortunately for him, the majority of them were pictures and he managed it.

When it was done, he was all smiles from ear-to-ear. He’s quite proud of himself for getting through it. The Wife and I are too.

Now the trick will be getting him to try another one.