I was reading my daughter a slightly insipid but still enjoyable bedtime story–and, no, that’s not how I described it to her–when she interrupted.

‘Wait–that caterpillar said it’s going to make a cocoon, but that would mean it had to become a moth.  So why does it say it will be a butterfly?’

I had to laugh, but what’s worse is her comment seemed to kick me over into edit mode and I noticed several typos after that.  Still, for a book with a cover price of two dollars back when I bought it, I suppose I shouldn’t complain.

But I did check to see if the six-year old was right, and it looks like she was.  Maybe I should hire her out as a copy editor?  Or better yet, train her as mine.