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In reply to the discussion: What did you read as a child? [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,124 posts)57. YESSS..I hear you. anything with print.
        I was reading well by kindergarten. My grandmother had a huge Webster's dictionary on a revolving stand, like they used in libraries. I would stand in front of it for hours and read definitions, She had a set of encyclopedias, she had a large bookshelf of "the Classic Books Series" that bore gold imprinted titles. Untouched, it appeared.
She let me read them because she knew I would disappear with a book for hours. Thus all the classic authors were stuffed in my head.
My Mom worked, a neighbor lady babysat me, she had every one of the OZ books. I was 8 at the time. Joy.
as a kid, I always had at least a paperback with me, for the car rides, for "go find something to do and stay out of the way" moments.
Now I use my Nook for those times I have to wait.
taught both kids to read around age 4, read stories to them every night, I had learned by then that the first 6 years of a child's life is when the brain grows the fastest, soaks everything right up.
I might go find those James Bond books and see what I missed.
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        I read the trixie beldon series.  My daughters read them all.  My one daughter still has them.
        notdarkyet
        Jul 2018
        #31
      
        
        Tricia Beldon was an early favorite and my sisters Nancy Drew series was...
        Guilded Lilly
        Jul 2018
        #7
      
        
        Yup.  All things considered I am so grateful to have grown up when I did...
        Guilded Lilly
        Jul 2018
        #41
      
        
        Same here.  I  read practically everything in our small rural grade school library early on.
        Arkansas Granny
        Jul 2018
        #16
      
        
        Loved the fairy tales.  The yellow book, the red book, Hans Christian Anderson.  So many books
        notdarkyet
        Jul 2018
        #33
      
        
        Me, too!  I am sitting here with a wonderfully nostalgic grin plastered on my face!
        Guilded Lilly
        Jul 2018
        #43
      
        
        Read every biography in the library.  Later found out they mostly weren't true.
        notdarkyet
        Jul 2018
        #34
      
        
        i love love both of those authors, have all Stephen King books to date & lots of Koontz's too.
        lark
        Jul 2018
        #19
      
        
        I went from 'Nancy Drew' and 'The Bobbsey Twins' to historical biographies before my teens
        Siwsan
        Jul 2018
        #39
      
        
        "The Mad Scientists Club", "Miss Pickerel Goes to Mars", "The Incredible Flight ... Mushroom Planet"
        eppur_se_muova
        Jul 2018
        #44