Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about early reading…
Do you remember how you developed a love for reading? Was it from a particular person, or person(s)? Do you remember any books that you read, or were read to you, as a young child? (question courtesy of Diane)
Nobody but my grandma actually read yet somehow she alone made me into a reader. I’ve been able to read ever since I can remember but the family says I learned when I was 3. I guess I got tired of trying to find someone who would read to me! Another family story is that I would walk up to anyone (before I learned how) and everyone and ask them to read to me lol.
There aren’t any particular books I remember more than others (I know I read every Dr. Seuss at an early age) but I know I started chapter books fairly early. Either first or second grade I believe. I remember I loved those Babysitters Club books for awhile! Oh, and I read a bunch of classics like The Wind in the Willows, Call of the Wild, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Secret Garden, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Black Beauty, etc.
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I wish I kept a reading journal as a kid, too. You're right, that would be very cool!
ReplyDeleteThe Baby-sitter's Club was formative for me too. Looking at them now, they're funny, but I loved them.
ReplyDeleteMy grandma got me reading too. She took me to the library to get my first library ticket, in the days when you could only have 3 books out instead of 20!
ReplyDeleteI never did read any of the Baby-sitter Club books. I was more into the Girls of Canby Hall, which almost nobody has heard of. LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your Grandma made a reader out of you. I can't imagine life without books. lol-I still remember Dr Seuss too-I loved those books.
ReplyDeleteI don't really know where I get my reading from. My grandmother reads now, but she didn't very much when I was little and neither of my parents are readers. It just sort of seems to have happened...
ReplyDeletelol, that's so neat that you'd walk up to people and ask them to read to you!
ReplyDeleteI was never read to as a child, but my parents are both readers so I guess I just followed their example.
I liked it that you'd ask someone to read to you. So cute and yet so inspiring! :D
ReplyDeleteAh yes, Black Beauty is one of my most memorable reads besides those Nancy Drew's and Enid Blyton's.
My grandma is actually the one person in my family that was a reader too!! We didn't have a library in our little one-horse town. So, every Saturday for years, she would take me to Taylorville. We would have lunch at this little diner and we would go to the Little Professor Bookstore. I got a new book a week. That is how I collected the entire set of Nancy Drew books and Trixie Belden. (Grandma loved her mysteries!) She also loaned me all of her Agatha Christies.
ReplyDeleteI really like The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm told my first word was "rea" and I would carry a book around the house, asking people to "rea."
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