You Read?!
I used to read Pepper and Noddy like most kids that age. My parents and teachers used to read it out to me. I didn't think much of it at that time, but my memory serves me well and I was lip syncing with my parents when they would read out stories to me. Soon, I could recite my favorite stories like a continuous sentence, something I did at the age of 5. In first grade my mother took me to a small library run by a woman we knew. What interested me there was just how many books that room had. Somewhere in hundreds. I didn't know how, but I knew I wanted to read all of them. My eyes first landed on a big section of shelves all of which looked like the same size, similar colors. The woman who ran the place then pulled out one of them and told me that I should read these. I fail to recollect the name of the book but I know on the very top of the book were three words- Usborne Young Reading. I had no idea then but my research now tells me that it is a mass publishing house in the U...
