Lorena asked Donna Galanti:

What were the first books and/or experiences that sparked your imagination as a child?

Donna Galanti HI Lorena, I fell in love with reading early on and it was books that sparked my imagination. Roald Dahl was a favorite author. I always got his books from the Tooth Fairy. Other books close to my heart are The Island of the Blue Dolphins and White Fang. And I couldn’t forget My Side of The Mountain. I grew up as an only child in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York (like Sam Gribley in that book) and roamed the woods for adventure. We lived in a 200-year old farmhouse on acres of apple trees and falling-down barns. It was a child’s world to explore. So you can understand how I desperately wanted to be Sam Gribley living on a mountain in a tree with a pet falcon!

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