This week's theme: NON-BOOKISH FREEBIE. Which means you can do pretty much anything you want. Which, for some reason, always feels like a lot of pressure on me to choose just the right topic. Which is dumb, but there you go. So, after much thought and deliberation, I decided to go with 10 Favorite Bookish Memories.
- My mom making up bedtime stories just for me when I was little about a mischievous fairy named Golda and all her fun misadventures.
- My dad teaching me to read using his old copy of Dick and Jane and Hop on Pop among other books.
- Trips to the library from the time I was little (we went several times a week in the summer because the library was air-conditioned and our house was not).
- Library book sales that lasted for days. Me and my sisters would go everyday with our wishlists and come home with bags of books.
- Book orders in elementary school from Troll, Arrow, and Scholastic. I loved coming home with a new armful of books every month.
- Teachers who read favorite books to my class like Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Where the Red Fern Grows, and A Wrinkle in Time. They are books I still love today.
- Fun Buddy Reads with my mom, my niece, Bettina and Melody.
- Getting to meet Jane Yolen, Gary Blackwood, Laurie Foos, and Stephanie Black at writer's conferences.
- My dad buying me each new Harry Potter book on the day it came out so I could read it right away even though I was more than old enough to go out and buy them myself. (Thanks, Dad!)
- Reading A Long Walk to Water with a group of 4th graders and seeing their eyes light up when they finally see the connection between Salva and Nya at the end.
Happy Reading!
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