One of Julie's favorite books when she was younger was Wacky Wednesday. In this Dr. Seuss (writing as someone else) book, a child of ambiguous (and thus perhaps appealing to all genders) gender wakes up one Wednesday to find a shoe on his wall. More wackiness ensues on each page and it is the reader's happy task to spot all the wacky things as he or she reads along. Julie thought Joe might be ready for it, though as they read, she realized that some of the wackiness is subtle (e.g. a mouse chasing a cat) or rather advanced (e.g. a poster labelled George Washington nonetheless pictures Abraham Lincoln). Those bits did go over Joe's head, but he soon enough got into the rest of it. Wherever he'd spot something wacky, he'd say (borrowing, curiously, from another Dr. Seuss book, Hop on Pop): "HOW CAN THAT BE?!?!?!" He may have been all wackity wacksters by the end. Just in time for bed!
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