The books we read as children
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Books open up the world to the minds of children; a child’s vivid imagination can transport them to places they have never seen and people they have never met through the words they read.
Far better than doing this via the internet!
Reading was my favourite past time as a child, it still is today, and I still love those special books I read when I was a young girl. My favourites were the Donna Parker series (pictured left).
Donna was a teenage girl; very independant, clever and was always finding wonderful adventures wherever she went. The books followed her through school and beyond where she became a nurse - the books were set in the 1950’s but Donna was very much a girl ahead of her time.
I also loved the story of Helen Keller and her life and work was told wonderfully in a children’s book I still have today; I would love to see books like this included in the school syllabus. But then today the kids have Harry Potter and his magical adventures, the deliciously ‘dark’ books of Roald Dahl and, of course, The Lord of the Rings series of books.
Books are important in childhood; not just for reading but for stimulating that wonderful sense of imagination, fantasy and adventure we sometimes seem to lose as we grow up.
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