BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?
Ok, here's the Friday Five....on Tuesday. *sheepish grin* 1. What were your favorite childhood stories? Hmm...I loved the Cat in the Hat books, Are You My Mother?, Go Dog Go, and Snow 2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children? Well, I am going to say that as a little-little kid, I loved the classics like Ezra Jack Keats' Whistle For Willie, and books like Make Way For Ducklings. But also, I loved the Grimm Brothers' Fairytales. 3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything? Funny...today we were just discussing the horrors of the cute fluffy little Beatrix Potter tales...things like the farmer boiling and skinning bunnies. 4. How old were you when you first learned to read? I could read the books that people had been reading to me at around 2 and a half, but I was actually about 3 years old when I started reading the newspaper on my own--I read the comics. I was a huge "Garfield" fan at 4. (I know. It's scary.) 5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you? Not sure what qualifies as "grown-up" (hopefully nothing smutty), and so, I don't know what that is or when I read my first one. Geez, I read all the Harry Potter books now, and I am almost 30 years old. I do have a vivid recollection of reading Charlotte's Web on the livingroom floor of my grandparents' house, and desperately trying not to cry when I got to the end and Charlotte died. I think I was about 10 years old. |
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