Oh goody! It’s on books this week!
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
Probably the Babysitters’ Club books and the Dr. Suess ones. I was also a huge Richard Scarry fan.
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
The Cat in the Hat, Scrambled Eggs Super, If I Ran the Zoo, Anne of Green Gables, Caddie Woodlawn, Black Beauty, Otto and the Silver Hand
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
I am continually amazed at how much of The Cat in the Hat that I still have memorized. I think my mom still has the whole thing memorized — she had to read it so many times to my brother and I!
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
I taught myself when I was 3. My 1st grade reading group was working through Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (the REAL book) by the end of the year because we’d read everything our school had.
5. Do you remember the first ‘grown-up’ book you read? How old were you?
Probably one of my mom’s murder mysteries when I was 12 or 13.
for #3 – with children, another Seuss book that “works better” is one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish – very sing-song in it’s rhymes and also very easy to memorize. best bedtime book in our library when our kids were younger.