When I was 6 we had a lot of overdue library books that we couldn't find because my sisters and I would leave them everywhere. That same year my class had taken a trip to the public library and the librarian told us that if we didn't return our books they would lock us in jail. She of course said it only to scare us into returning books, but I took it so literally that I refused to go to the library until my parents forced me into the building crying.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- 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
- 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
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty