Susan, 8, lover of My Little Ponies, Littlest Pet Shop and Lazytown, has finally joined us. We who love the words on the page, looking forward with anticipation to the next book in the series, while living in an imaginary world based on the description and dialogue given us by the author.
She’s on chapter 8 of Misty of Chincoteague, her very first chapter book read for pleasure. I’m so proud. And so glad I didn’t force the issue. Oh, and just so you know, yesterday she said she wants to write books. That’s my girl.
That’s wonderful! My 8-year-old fell in love with books last summer and it was so great to watch the “birth of a reader”!
Oh, happy day! I’d offer a few words to welcome her to the world of obsessive, die-hard book-lovers, but we don’t want to weird her out or anything, as if readers are some strange breed of oddballs.
Because we aren’t.
Are we?