Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham
I taught myself to read with this book - loving the powerful illustrations.
I adored reading all the myths and legends in a set of Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedias but my all time favourite read - Black Beauty!
Reading memories of Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever and Gary Chalk
I remember the first Lone Wolf book I read. I had ordered it from a 'book club' scheme at school and it was totally different from any of the books I had ever seen or read. It was a 'choose your own adventure', which addressed the reader directly - a book in which 'you decide'.
If you wish to fight the Giaks turn to 123. If you wish to hide in the cave turn to 54.
I remember the way in which I kept my place as I made my decision and turned to the numbered sections, ready to jump back if I wanted to choose again. The battles and adventures were vivid and exciting to me as my decisions had an effect on the events. I was hooked. It was a series and I read and read and read....I loved the illustrations too.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe read to me by my teacher in primary school. I cannot remember the teacher but he must have had a good reading voice. This book places me in a particular time (I was in the back of the class on the right hand side) and place and it must have been important to me as a child because I rarely associate times and places with books.
My memorable reading experience was reading my Dad’s Reader’s Digest magazines which he used to read in the bathroom. I loved the variety of stories and articles and remember being spellbound by the abridged version of Rodin’s biography and also The Selfish Giant.
Whilst choosing a magazine for the train journey to today’s meeting, I spotted the Reader’s Digest magazine and read it all the way there.
