Book Club: “The Costume Trunk” & dress up play

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This month’s From Left to Write Book Club pick is “The Costume Trunk” by Bob Fuller.  It was a little change of pace for the hectic month, as “Costume Trunk” is a children’s book!  As soon as it came in the mail Rayna commandeered it and brought it right up to her bed, where she sleeps with as many books as she possibly can.  At least she got her love of books from me

As you would guess, “The Costume Trunk” is about a costume trunk that magically transports a group of friends to “Paddywhack Lane”–a place where all their dreams come true.  It’s funny, because I’ve never really thought of Rayna having a costume trunk until days before I received this book in the mail.

While we were at the shore house this last time, a couple of our friends volunteered to watch the kids so that we could actually go on a beach date (which is really rare for us, since we are almost always there by ourselves).  They could see how few toys we had there (we bring a few toys down with us; there’s none in the house), and one of them asked “yeah well you have dress up costumes and stuff right?”  Um…no?  I realized that I don’t have any organized group of dress up toys at all.

Rayna has an excellent imagination (as you may recall, she is Woody almost every day) and she makes up crazy games and things all the time.  But we really don’t have much dress up stuff.  I don’t know why it never really occured to me!  I need to get a little box and put some stuff in it, that seems like a great way for her to play around and be something other than Woody for once!

So now I’m on the prowl for some dress up dresses, hats, costumes, etc.  I have her pirate costume from Halloween last year which will be a fun addition and she’s been asking for a set of wings so I’ll look out for that too.  What else would you include?

Disclosure:  I was given a copy of this book for review purposes.