Slightly Off KIlter

The Friday 5 for July 4, 2003

1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
   

2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
   

3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
   

4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
   

5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?

1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
   
   Goodness! Anything and everything.

2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
   
   "My Father's Dragon", Winnie The Pooh, "The Diamond in the Window" (and sequels), Edward Eager, Susan Cooper, Madeline L'Engle, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes (The Moffat Family)…

3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
   
   Re-read… yes; some several times. Surprised? … no…

4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
   
   4? I was too young to remember.

5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
   Probably 9 or 10? I just worked my way through all of the books in the downstairs (juveniles) section of the library and then started going upstairs. But I also read Readers' Digest Condensed books at home. What's a "'grown-up' book" anyway? What's a "kid's book". The important question is… is it a good book?