My father apparently made a valiant effort to teach me to read at 4, which I deflected with the statement "I'll learn to do that when I go to school, Daddy."
I have no idea what I would have made of those books at that age! The first things I really remember reading were at about age 8, and they were all juveniles: Farley Mowatt's Owls in the Family, Ruthven Todd's "Spacecat" books, Esther Averill's books about Jenny Linski, the little black cat. The first fantasy I remember reading - because my wonderful 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Schurman, read them to us aloud - were Edward Eager's marvellous 1950s "low" (i.e., set in our world) fantasies: Half Magic and its siblings (pretty good write-up here). I read The Hobbit the next year, and LotR, The Once and Future King,, and The Witches of Karres at 11 - and the rest, as they say, is history.
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My father apparently made a valiant effort to teach me to read at 4, which I deflected with the statement "I'll learn to do that when I go to school, Daddy."
I have no idea what I would have made of those books at that age! The first things I really remember reading were at about age 8, and they were all juveniles: Farley Mowatt's Owls in the Family, Ruthven Todd's "Spacecat" books, Esther Averill's books about Jenny Linski, the little black cat. The first fantasy I remember reading - because my wonderful 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Schurman, read them to us aloud - were Edward Eager's marvellous 1950s "low" (i.e., set in our world) fantasies: Half Magic and its siblings (pretty good write-up here). I read The Hobbit the next year, and LotR, The Once and Future King,, and The Witches of Karres at 11 - and the rest, as they say, is history.