Top Ten Tuesday

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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.

1. My mom making up bedtime stories just for me when I was little about a mischievous fairy named Golda and all her fun misadventures.
2. My dad teaching me to read using his old copy of Dick and Jane and Hop on Pop among other books.
3. 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).
4. Library book sales that lasted for days. Me and my sisters would go everyday with our wishlists and come home with bags of books. 
5. Book orders in elementary school from Troll, Arrow, and Scholastic. I loved coming home with a new armful of books every month.
6. 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.
7. Fun Buddy Reads with my mom, my niece, Bettina and Melody.
8. Getting to meet Jane Yolen, Gary Blackwood, Laurie Foos, and Stephanie Black at writer's conferences.
9. 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!)
10. 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!