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Finding the books

I remember a long time ago in my life, at Junior School being sent to special reading classes. It was deemed my reading skills were not good, or non-existant. I imagine my Parents were shocked by this discovery. The reading classes ensued and over a short period of time I went from reading no books to reading the whole collection of The Famous 5. How I enjoyed those books, I read them and re-read them, I wonder what I would make of them today.

Then I discovered the Library, or rather my parents drove me there. It was great, a whole building full of books, and get this, I could read them for free. I think I was lucky one of the first books I remember taking out from Crewe Library was "Scrub Dog Of Alaska". It was a superb book, about a dog and his trials and tribulations throughout his life. Hold on I am going to amazon (new verb?) this book to see if it still exists. It does exist, I was reading the reviews from a 11 year old, he should be writing this instead of me. I may just buy it, only available second hand of course.

I think it was a while before I found a whole section with the title Science Fiction and Fantasy (why do they put those together?). But once this happened there was no going back, straight through Clarkes books, Bova, and whatever else was on the shelves. I soon out-read the Library and was ordering books (not free) from other Libraries. And then when I had my first weekend job I was out to WHSmiths ordering books.

Books are great, I hate to be without a book, not sure the last time that I had nothing to read. This would I reckon put me into panic mode. So from not be able to read at such a small age all the way to now. A great journey of tails, books and stories.

Posted by at May 31, 2003 02:24 PM

Comments

I was wondering, what are 'The Famous 5'?

Posted by: CB at May 31, 2003 06:30 PM

The famous five are childrens adventure books written by Enid Blyton. I think they may only have been an English phenomenon.

Just looked on amazon.co.uk, they are still for sale.

Posted by: eanws at May 31, 2003 07:52 PM