What are some memorable books that you read as a child? I’m sharing a handful of my picks over on Jeri Walker-Bickett’s blog today, and the list might surprise you. Unless, of course, you also read Sophia Loren’s biography when you were 10.
Here’s the full post: The Thorn Birds as Children’s Literature. And if Jeri’s name sounds familiar to you, it’s because she shared this poignant and haunting post, When Your Mother is Crazy, on my blog just a couple of months ago.
I forgot to mention this on your guest site–what a sweet photo of you as a girl. I can totally see the reader in that face.
🙂 Thanks, Jagoda. There was a lot going on in that 11-year-old head of mine!
Brilliant post! Will share with my colleagues at Readathon, the charity that promotes reading for pleasure to children. Not necessarily as a prescribed reading list though!
🙂 Thanks, Debbie!
Laura your reading list is scarily like some of my own at the same ages despite living in another continent! I too read prolifically and from all manner of materials – it is hard to imagine that this isn’t both a reflection of who we were and a contributor as to the people we have become.
How interesting! Even the Lovelace book?! Ha! I only wish I could read as fast now as I did then, when I used to chew books up for dinner. And as for contributing to who we became, I know that all that reading helped my spelling enormously. I have seen the words on the page so much that I rarely have trouble spelling them. Now, as for vocabulary, that seems to have stalled out after high school. 😛