I used to beleive that all books were coloring books, but some of them --dictionaries for instance -- just weren't as much fun to color as other books were.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan