Board Books for Bored Babes

  "After you, Madam President."

"Dear Reader,  If you’re squeamish and don’t like to read about germs, then you should stop now and find some other book to read. If you don’t scrub your hands with soap and hot water for at least thirty seconds after using the toilet and before eating, if you don’t clean underneath your fingernails, if you don’t sneeze or cough into a tissue or your elbow or your shoulder in order not to spray germs, if you touch doorknobs or share eating utensils or set your sandwich down on the cafeteria table, if you practice the five-second rule, if you don’t change or launder your bath towel at least twice a week, if you don’t wipe your cell phone and keyboard with a disinfectant once a day, if you don’t clean out your backpack or your purse every day, then read on.  Sincerely, the author"

"Then, as Russia’s last tsar was laid to rest, the fortress fired a nineteen-round salute... Some of the Romanovs had finally come home."