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My Favourite BooksIn fact anything to do with reading~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have you ever read one that changed your life? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I was about eight an aunt of mine gave me an unexpected gift of a book for Christmas.Anyway, I found a quite corner & settled down to plough through it. I surfaced three hours later, after going on the biggest adventure of my young life. I was transported to another world with four kids & a scruffy dog we spent our summer holiday solving mysteries and getting into all kinds of trouble along the way. I really was there with those kids every step of the way. I was hooked big time. Until then I always though reading was boring, something you had to do in school. Oh yes, we did read in our home. Mum read magazines. Dad read newspapers. And us kids? Well, we only read comics I’m sad to say. I never went to a library in those days. So,it had never entered my head to read a book for fun. However, auntie’s gift changed all that. Over the next couple of years, she came up trumps time after time and there was always a Famous Five Adventures among my gifts. Of course, Enid Blyton is considered quite tame now days but we grew up in simpler times. Today’s kids have J.K.Rowling and her contemporaries like Jacqueline Wilson, my teenage granddaughters favourite. Nevertheless, some story writers remain evergreen; their books have become children’s classics. On my tenth birthday, my aunt gave me Black Beauty by Anna Sewell & that’s when I learned books could move you to tears. Boy did I cry over that one. By the time I reached twelve, she must have thought I was ready for the grownup world & gave me Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I have read that book so many times over the years I can almost quote it word for word. I went on to read many of the great classics in literature but
Jane Eyre
will always be my favourite & I will be forever grateful for The Famous Five who opened my eyes to the joys of literature.
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