when i was about o lets say like 6 or 7 i saw matilda the movie for the first time and i thought i could be like matilda if only i could read as many books as she did <thats how she learned telekenesis> and so i started to read all these books except then i was only small and could only read books with like 4 words on every page so eventually i gave up and i havent watched matilda since as if that makes sense hahahaha
A childhood belief about special powers
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
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell