Napkin Notes by Garth Callaghan is a book that my grandmother ran across in one of her magazines back in December. But before she could give me the title, she lost the list. Then she found it again sometime in January. So the library got a copy, and I passed it along to my grandmother so she could read it, and then she returned it to me, and I ended up reading it before I returned it to the library. My grandmother and I both had the same reaction to the book, which I will share later in the review. When his daughter was young, Garth Callaghan began including napkin notes in the school lunches he packed for her every day. At first the notes were thrown in sporadically, but when he realized how much his daughter looked forward to them, the notes became a constant and essential component of her lunches. The notes were a means for father to connect with daughter in the midst of the school day during the school year when his time with her was limited ...
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