On birthdays in my family.

When I was very little -- maybe three, or even younger -- my parents got me a book called something like "The Birthday Hunt." It was a picture book, in an art style which I remember as being similar to Ezra Jack Keats's, although I don't think it actually was by Ezra Jack Keats. In this book, a little boy gets a note from his parents sending him on a hunt where he looks for various shapes, and ends up finding his birthday present, which was a puppy.

ETA: I am impressed, yet not at all surprised, that Lis found which book it was. It's The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle. End Of Edit

I loved ths book, and, even more, I loved the idea. So the next year, my parents started setting up "Birthday Hunts".
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