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!
Aww, adorable!
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DeleteThese are such wonderful memories. Thank you for sharing.
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DeleteWhat great memories! My favorite time in elementary school was the Scholastic Book Fair. :D
ReplyDeleteThe Book Fair is awesome! They still do that at the elementary school where I work, and it's fun to see the kids check out all the books.
DeleteAww sweet memories!! I love library books sales as it supports the public library. I use to donate my read books I no longer wanted to the public library, but now I leave my read books at Little Free Libraries instead. I use to live near Santa Barbara and there was a FOL Bookstore in my small town that I visited frequently and would buy books all the time.
ReplyDeleteLibrary book sales are the best. My library system doesn't do big book sales any more. Some of the libraries have books for sale all the time, others don't have any. It's sad they don't do the fun big sales any more.
DeleteThese are great reading memories and you have a book loving family too. Being read stories by our teacher at school was always fun.
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I love when my teachers would read to us! I wish more had done it.
DeleteThose are lovely memories.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't think of anything else to do for this week's TTT. Some people are so clever with their freebie choices.
DeleteI can resonate with so many of these! Trips to the library with my dad stand out and live in loving memory.
ReplyDeleteI learned to read out of Dick and Jane books!
I loved those Scholastic flyers and ordering books and when they arrived it was like Christmas!
It was like Christmas when your book orders came in! I loved watching my teacher put the various books into piles on her desk and then call us up one by one to get our books. The best days ever. :D And I loved those Dick and Jane books.
DeleteThese are such great memories!! I love that you had such a long literary heritage :)
ReplyDeleteI can certainly trace my love of books and reading back to my parents. I was a very lucky child.
DeleteThese are awesome memories, Lark. One of my favourites is my dad reading to us sisters from the Big Bible Story Book each night before we went to bed. My favourite story was Joseph and the many coloured coat. I always picked that story when I got to choose. I will keep this in mind for a freebie down the road.
ReplyDeleteI love that memory you have with your dad! My dad read to us as kids, too, as did my mom, and those are some of my favorite memories. :D
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