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1biblioholic29
Bearbeitet: Dez. 3, 2014, 2:12 pm

So, this article about books that "Opened the Door" to reading showed up on my Facebook timeline today. At first, I thought to myself - no book got me reading - I just always loved it. And while that's certainly true, the instant I clicked on the link and actually looked at the list, I realized the majority of the top ten were definitely formative series for me that I read over and over. (The only ones that don't fit for me are Harry Potter because I was in my 20s by the time they came out and the Famous Five series, which I've never heard of though I've heard of the author.)

Looking at the rest of the top ten though was like looking at my childhood in microcosm. Some were more formative than others. The first book I remember reading on my own was Little House in the Big Woods though Charlotte's Web was certainly one of the first as well, and the movies for The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables helped to propel me toward loving those books. I probably read A Wrinkle in Time 10 times between 1989 and 1992 and I still have a large collection of Nancy Drew books which were passed down to me by my aunt. In fact, I still have copies of all the books/series I just mentioned and I doubt I could ever get rid of them.

I'm curious about everyone else - do you have a book that turned you into a reader? Do you, like me, look at the list and see your well-spent youth? Do you think anything on the list shouldn't be there? Let's discuss!

2jugglingpaynes
Dez. 3, 2014, 12:23 pm

*whispering* Fix your link, bib! There is a quotation mark at the end that is breaking it. ;)

For me, it was definitely the Chronicles of Narnia in sixth grade. I was not a big reader before that. Oddly enough, it was the animated TV special of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that convinced me to start the Narnia books. I never felt interested in reading Charlotte's Web after watching that several times. Once I discovered fantasy, then sci-fi, I really started reading.

I find it interesting since I help with the library book sale that I often overhear teachers talking about how much they dislike the scifi/fantasy genre. I'm not sure why. All I know is if my only choice had been more realistic fiction, I never would have started reading for pleasure. I wanted escape, and fantasy gave me that escape.

3biblioholic29
Dez. 3, 2014, 2:12 pm

Woops! Actually it was the missing quotation at the beginning. It's fixed now!

4justjukka
Dez. 3, 2014, 3:39 pm

Seeing my dad read all the time is what got me into reading.  Might be odd to say that I read until I was 6 years old, and didn't really have an interest until again until I was almost 10, but school was affective in teaching me how boring reading could be.  Instead of working with me, my teachers labeled me as a problem child.

I worry about people who dismiss fantasy and scifi.  Speculation must be beyond them.

52wonderY
Dez. 3, 2014, 5:20 pm

When my own children were in school I was disturbed to learn how many of their teachers did not read for pleasure.

6justjukka
Dez. 4, 2014, 6:44 pm

>5 2wonderY:  I once met a teacher who did some sort of froo-froo sales stuff, on the side.  Good on her to manage two careers.  I decided I was no longer interested in maintaining any sort of relationship when she announced how close she was to making the sales her full-time job, because she jubilantly announced, "And then I won't have to teach, anymore!"

I have a friend who majored in education, but pursued a career in her minor because she came to the realization that she would not make a good teacher.  She'd be passable, but she never liked those kinds of teachers, growing up.  It would have been one thing if that saleslady said something to that effect, rather than gleefully announcing how little educating children mattered to her.

But I appear to have derailed the topic...

7jugglingpaynes
Dez. 5, 2014, 12:08 am

Hang on, I'll put the train back on track. *screeching, twisting metal, squealing breaks, sparks*

In all fairness, one of my favorite teachers inspired the writer of Wonder. I actually recognized him and asked her about it when I met the author. Turns out we went to the same school in different years. Small world!

82wonderY
Bearbeitet: Dez. 5, 2014, 3:06 pm

Just a short spur

>6 justjukka: Yeah, One of my neighbor's was a math teacher. and one year in May she made the remark - "School can't be done yet; I have so much more to teach the kids!" Now that is a teacher.

9grkmwk
Dez. 8, 2014, 9:49 am

Like bib, I can't recall one single book that turned me into a reader, but rather there are a list of books/series that I dearly loved as a child that nurtured a love of reading that my parents - particularly, my mother - instilled in me when I was young. Childhood favorites include Nancy Drew series, the Little House series, Anne of Green Gables series, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Westing Game, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Babysitters Club series. The first chapter book I recall reading, with my mom, was Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, which was a gift from my great-aunt.

10foggidawn
Dez. 26, 2014, 7:27 pm

I was always a reader (my parents read me stacks of books pretty much any time I wanted), but I do have a soft spot for The Chronicles of Narnia.

11theretiredlibrarian
Mrz. 27, 2015, 9:17 am

Beverly Cleary. My favorites were Otis Spofford, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Probably discovered Cleary in the 3rd grade, back in the mid '60s.

But I honestly don't remember NOT being a reader. I learned how to read with Dick and Jane. I was the kid with the nose in the book all the time (50 years later nothing's changed about that). My dad was an Army sergeant, there were 4 kids, and not a lot of money. Every time we moved, my mom would find the nearest library;usually the bases had them. And when you're overseas and there's no English TV, you definitely turn to books. Although watching Hoss Cartwright dubbed in Japanese is pretty entertaining.

12meghanas
Mrz. 28, 2015, 9:27 pm

I don't know what book in particular got me started reading, but I know who did--my sister. My sister is older than me by about five years, which means she was already reading avidly by the time I was five or six. Most of my favorite books and authors are a result of her influence on me. Some of my favorite books even from childhood are the Artemis Fowl series and anything by Tamora Pierce. That said, I'm able to think critically about both of those groups of books, now--but that doesn't mean I stop loving them :)

13rissa
Apr. 25, 2015, 10:16 pm

I have very fond memories of being read to as a kid, especially of the Little House books. The first books I really read myself were the Nancy Drew books, I got the first three for my birthday (I think my 9th) and that's when I really took off reading.