In fifth grade, Rightsell Elementary in Little Rock, we had an author visit. Don’t remember who it was or what book he wrote, but it had never occurred to me that an author was a person who did a thing. Like my own parents did things but they didn’t write books.
So while that author’s book didn’t change my life, his school visit did.
I can't wait to hear what the other books were. Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak and And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss are tied for my favorite first books. I was a voracious reader in my youth but for some reason I remember very few books I read before my dad introduced me to The Red Planet, one of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile books, which started a habit of reading all his juvenile books.
I was the only bookworm in my immediate family, but there was one book my siblings and I bonded over when we were younger -- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. I also loved The Baby-Sitters Club series because it was the first time I saw a character that looked like me represented in books my friends and I were reading together.
Excited to read about the other books that changed your life! :)
Excited for the rest of this series! I had an old book of fairy tales that I remember reading over and over
In fifth grade, Rightsell Elementary in Little Rock, we had an author visit. Don’t remember who it was or what book he wrote, but it had never occurred to me that an author was a person who did a thing. Like my own parents did things but they didn’t write books.
So while that author’s book didn’t change my life, his school visit did.
I can't wait to hear what the other books were. Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak and And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss are tied for my favorite first books. I was a voracious reader in my youth but for some reason I remember very few books I read before my dad introduced me to The Red Planet, one of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile books, which started a habit of reading all his juvenile books.
I was the only bookworm in my immediate family, but there was one book my siblings and I bonded over when we were younger -- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. I also loved The Baby-Sitters Club series because it was the first time I saw a character that looked like me represented in books my friends and I were reading together.
Excited to read about the other books that changed your life! :)