I have memories of my mother reading to us from either one of two books - Grimm's Fairy Tales or Anderson's Fairy Tales. We didn't have lots of books in our house when I was small - I don't think lots of people had books. But we did have a set of encyclopedia - and neighbors came often to borrow them. We only had a traveling library in our town. It came every two weeks. We checked out the maximum allowed each time they came too.
But I have memories of sitting on the floor while my mother sat in a chair and read the stories to us. It is a happy memory, because books and reading came to mean everything to me in my life.
And so I am happy that I am a reader. I am happy that my children read to their children. I am happy that we are a family of readers.
It certainly was heart-warming to watch Robbie read to Rhoda!
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