It’s Fun Friday, and for me, it’s even more fun than usual – the kids storybook parades at school – where they must dress up as a character in a book (my 9 year old is a witch THE WORLD’S BEST FAIRY TALES and my lil guy a pirate from a new children’s book HALLOWEEN) and then I have a mother-daughter road trip to see the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE tour.

The storybook parade got me to thinking what character from a book would you like to be for a day? I think I’d pick OWEN MEANY from John Irving’s A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, not only because we named our youngest after him, but because it would be fun to be a little boy with a big voice and play with my son.

And you? Leave us your answer in comments today – the character and the book and author and you’ll be registered to win our Impulse Prize we posted on Monday, the pink mirrred tin of peppermint gum.

We also got some more fun news from one of our queenBs, who has started a Shelf Discovery Reading Challenge, so if you’re hankering for teen classics, join her challenge for a chance at great prizes. I’ll be signing up, too and hope to get my daughter to read some of them with me. So Atta-babe, Julie P. Great idea and good luck with your challenge. -ML