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Cherished Childhood Books
I owe my late mother a huge debt. She encouraged my love of books and stories from an early age and she was thrilled to see my first story in print, A Helping Hand, in Bridge House Publishing’s Alternative Renditions anthology way back in 2009.
Sadly, Mum didn’t get to see either of my two flash fiction collections (From Light to Dark and Back Again and Tripping the Flash Fantastic) though my Dad did see the first one.
But thinking about them, and in particular, Mum, led me to recall some of my cherished childhood books.
To name a few:-
Black Beauty
Heidi
The Famous Five - I had most of the set (close to about 20 books or so).
The Reader’s Digest Collection of Classic Fairytales - a huge two volume set beautifully illustrated too.
And then there were various Ladybird books as well.
And I used to collect the old I-Spy books which were themed on topics and you scored points for everything you observed on that topic when out on walks etc.
The best gift that comes from having an early love of reading?
Well it’s a gift that doesn’t leave you and you keep on reading. What you read changes of course according to age and taste but there is a reading journey as well as a writing one.
What matters is to ensure you thoroughly enjoy your reading journey (and if you have one the writing one as well).
Sadly, Mum didn’t get to see either of my two flash fiction collections (From Light to Dark and Back Again and Tripping the Flash Fantastic) though my Dad did see the first one.
But thinking about them, and in particular, Mum, led me to recall some of my cherished childhood books.
To name a few:-
Black Beauty
Heidi
The Famous Five - I had most of the set (close to about 20 books or so).
The Reader’s Digest Collection of Classic Fairytales - a huge two volume set beautifully illustrated too.
And then there were various Ladybird books as well.
And I used to collect the old I-Spy books which were themed on topics and you scored points for everything you observed on that topic when out on walks etc.
The best gift that comes from having an early love of reading?
Well it’s a gift that doesn’t leave you and you keep on reading. What you read changes of course according to age and taste but there is a reading journey as well as a writing one.
What matters is to ensure you thoroughly enjoy your reading journey (and if you have one the writing one as well).
