Booking Through Thursday: (Insert Pithy Title Here)

Another Thursday is upon us, and that means it is time for yet another Booking Through Thursday prompt. What will it be this week, you ask? Here you go…

Prompt: Do you remember learning to read? What’s your earliest reading memory?

I don’t remember learning to read, per se, but I do know that I was able to read going in to kindergarten and so while the other kids were learning to read, I was invited to go and read books out loud to the principal in her office for that time. I don’t remember what I read (it was probably just primers like Dick and Jane) but I do remember sitting in Ms. Olivier’s office and reading to her. One of my other earliest memories of reading is when I was growing up (this is late seventies, early eighties) was that the television was never on in the evenings. My mother would read to me each night. We read a lot books in my formidable years: the “Mary Poppins” series by P.L. Travers, the “Doctor Doolittle” series by Hugh Lofting, Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters (and it’s sequel Forty-One Aunts and Uncles) by Reba P. Mirsky, the “Winnie-the-Pooh” series by A.A. Milne, Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little by E.B. White and the books of Roald Dahl: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, etc. etc. etc.