When I was little I never understood why adults liked to read. I thought that all the read were information books or dictionary/thesaurus... I never knew they actually had fiction books! Not until I was about 10!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon