that is too cute.  i am absolutely the same way, and i am hoping and praying my 5mo old son will love books as much as me.  right now, hes in the “chew on them” stage!

I have to tell you it is extremely COOL and wonderful that moment when you hear your child read aloud for the first time!  It is as amazing as I always thought it would be times 10 to share the love of reading with my oldest and I can’t wait until the younger ones learn to read, too!  I don’t even mind her “sneaking” to read late at night with a flashlight under her covers ... it is just that neat that she CAN read and that she LOVES to do it!  Here’s to the written word:  chewed on, sounded out, read-a-loud, and quietly in our heads ... wonderful!

I know what you mean. I have a hard time sitting down—even to dinner—without the two-year old coming to me saying, “Read a book, read a book, read a book, read a book.” Of course, before she learned how to say that she used to bang them onto my knee. It is a lovely thing to have a child who loves books.

As a parent of two teens, one off to college and the other a senior, I can very much relate.  Being voracious readers runs in the family and while my eldest child is dysgraphic and dyslexic, and tests out as such a slow reader that they consider him functionally illiterate, well, he has read more books on the college book lists than most college graduates.  Slow as the turtle in the children’s story, but read he does, voraciously.

I related to the weekly library trips.  The librarians used to quiz me on each book when I returned it to show off that I indeed read every single one of the 10-15 they let me take out.  I read through the children’s section and moved into the adult stacks years before my peers.

We don’t do TV here.  Years ago when we did, we always turned it off for Lent and read aloud as a family.  Those were such good days.

I like this blog.

I have a feeling she’s going to be a brilliant bookworm, just like her mama.

Thanks Arwen—-we too are avid readers.  Isn’t it great when a child starts to read EVERYTHING.  I never realized there were so many things to read in the world—-our Francie would read every sign she could see—which of course annoyed a couple of older brothers….

I posted a similar comment to one of Danielle’s pieces about reading.  I’ll post here too—-that is, book recommendations.  Do you have any that you can share?  Do you have a book list of recommended reading by age?  There is much out there to choose from but truly don’t want to spend the time, energy, money or brainpower (not to mention soul-power) on something not worth reading.  I have been following Michael O’Brien’s Recommended Reading list found as an appendix to his book A Landscape with Dragons:  The Battle for Your Child’s Mind.  This is a great book by the way.  My husband and I read it as well as our two oldest (12 and 14 at the time) and it brought on a terrific discussion. 

I’d love to get any suggestions regarding books for all ages!