What was your favorite book as a child?
What book made you love reading? #CoSoBookLovers #CosoBookClub #opencarrybooks #ReadingIsFUNdamental #BibliophilesOfCoSo
@MotherDucker Harriet the Spy and A Wrinkle in Time
@MotherDucker Dr Dolittle series
@MotherDucker If you give a mouse a cookie
@MotherDucker I was able to get my first library card when I was 4, the rule being I could get a card if I could sign my full name. I devoured everything, but I have fond memories of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Made me wish I lived near a museum 😂
@MotherDucker Charlotte's Web
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My favorite book as a child was The Secret Garden. There was not a specific book that made me love reading. It has always been my sanctuary and my refuge.
@MotherDucker Anne of Green Gables
@shirlo48 I have just lovely memories of my mom reading that one to my sisters and me. ☺️
@MotherDucker The Martian Chronicles. I had to walk a mile and a half to the library but I took a grocery sack and filled up every week.
@MotherDucker I clearly remember devouring "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin Henke, as well as "The BFG," by Ronald Dahl.
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Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell,had a profound affect on the 13 year old me.
Narnia.
C. S. Lewis made me so badly want to escape through the back of a wardrobe, lol.
@chromogirl one of the best memories of my childhood is of my Dad reading The Chronicles of Narnia to my brother and me. He did voices and accents and everything. I can only hope to be half as cool for my daughter. 💝
OK not to brag, but when my kid was tiny i would read them the original winnie-the-pooh series with all different voices and they LOVED it. 20 years later they bragged on my abilities to their partner 😊
i plan to reprise should they bring me new small people to entertain at some point (and they better!)
@chromogirl brag away, you earned it. Do your kids now love reading too?
oh yes!!!
my (grown) kid is massively addicted to books and online media made of words (fan fic and whatnot).
they consume so many words it boggles my mind. i used to read everything they read so we could talk about it or bond over it. i had to give up that practice when they were like 11, they so far outpaced me i could not POSSIBLY keep up.
now i rely on them to tell me what is worth reading.
This is the first book I chose for myself from a library shelf and loved.
Up until that point I had read and enjoyed books others had pointed me to... But finding it all for myself made it so much more special.