I’ll bet you can’t wait to find out what my favorite picture book was when I was a child! For this and many other fun tidbits, open this winsome interview with author Karin Beery.
I loved how you read Run Silent, Run Deep at a young age. I have no idea what the first book without pictures was that I read, but our school let us order books from the Scholastic Book Service, and I always got books, which were delivered to us at school. Until a few years ago, I still had my copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which after more than 50 years was finally falling apart. Before it did, my wife read it. She had never read Sherlock Holmes, but now she wanted more, so I got the complete Sherlock Holmes, and she read all of that too. Scholastic Book Service offered a lot of classics; earlier this week I was in Harrisburg, Pa., and I stopped at Transit News in the rail and bus terminal. There were many books for sale, mostly classics and local history, and I came home with a book about Philadelphia trolleys (we live near Philly and ride trolleys a lot) and the diary of Anne Frank. I had never read her diary, but we saw a good stage dramatization of it in Swarthmore, Pa., earlier this year.
Weren’t those book fairs just the best? I couldn’t wait for them to come to my school and only regretted my parents didn’t give me a bigger budget for all the titles I wanted. Looking back, I’m pretty sure they were generous. How fun that the book you enjoyed so much as a boy has brought reading pleasure to your wife, and prompted her to want to read more Sherlock Holmes mysteries!
I loved how you read Run Silent, Run Deep at a young age. I have no idea what the first book without pictures was that I read, but our school let us order books from the Scholastic Book Service, and I always got books, which were delivered to us at school. Until a few years ago, I still had my copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which after more than 50 years was finally falling apart. Before it did, my wife read it. She had never read Sherlock Holmes, but now she wanted more, so I got the complete Sherlock Holmes, and she read all of that too. Scholastic Book Service offered a lot of classics; earlier this week I was in Harrisburg, Pa., and I stopped at Transit News in the rail and bus terminal. There were many books for sale, mostly classics and local history, and I came home with a book about Philadelphia trolleys (we live near Philly and ride trolleys a lot) and the diary of Anne Frank. I had never read her diary, but we saw a good stage dramatization of it in Swarthmore, Pa., earlier this year.
Weren’t those book fairs just the best? I couldn’t wait for them to come to my school and only regretted my parents didn’t give me a bigger budget for all the titles I wanted. Looking back, I’m pretty sure they were generous. How fun that the book you enjoyed so much as a boy has brought reading pleasure to your wife, and prompted her to want to read more Sherlock Holmes mysteries!