America!  Today is your birthday!  You have cake and goodie bags for us, right?  Goodie bags with stickers?  I need stickers.

Since I like book ’ems even more than stickers my mom thought it would be fun if I told you about these books we like to read about America.

The Good Night Our World books are about a bunch of children who are either on vacation or who have parents that take them out for more outings than my parents do, but whatever, I’m not jealous at all.  I have Good Night New York State (where I live), Good Night Maine (where my uncle lives) and Good Night California (my grandparents went there on vacation and forgot to bring me).  Anyway these kids like to say good morning and hello and good afternoon and happy springtime and whatnot to all of the fun places they get to go that I haven’t been.

Like apple picking.

And to eat Buffalo wings near the Peace Bridge.

(Everyone knows that Duff’s isn’t near the Peace Bridge.  C’mon, Mom and Dad.)

And my parents never take me to New York City.

Oh.  Wait.

Happy birthday, America!  Gimme stickers now!

(Psst: my mom says that America wants you to know that Adam Gamble wrote these awesome travel books and if you want to get ideas for your next vacation you can buy them here or support your local indie bookstore.  The book image is sourced from Google, whatever that means.  The rest are Mommy’s.)