| Heya <<First Name>>,
My favorite Christmas moment is book-related.
Of course.
 I’m 7 years old. I wake up, dash into the den, and gasp as I behold the bounty of Santa.
Because there on the fireplace mantel is every book from the NFL Punt Pass and Kick Library.
At least it seems like every book.
I run my fingers along the spines, along books with titles like “Great Quarterbacks of the NFL,” “The Big Play,” and “Strange But True Football Stories.”
This is heaven.
It brings together the two great loves of my boyhood: reading and football.
 The former I come by naturally. The latter is a gift from my dad, who played professionally for nine years. (That’s him on the right.)
That Christmas, I read all day. To be honest, I never really stop.
And while my love of football fades as I get older, my love of reading never does.
To this day, all I really want for Christmas is a few new books.
Maybe you know a kid like that.
If so, get them a book. Maybe one of ours. Or, if money is tight this year, print one out for free and read it aloud together.
As Jim Trelease said, “The least expensive thing we can give a child outside of a hug turns out to be the most valuable: words.”
Football is temporary. Books are forever.
Happy reading.
Jeff, Bob, and Zoe
Current reads: “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise” and “Capital in the 21st Century” (Jeff); “Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine” (Bob); “The Library of Lost and Found” (Zoe). |
