I used to believe that I could only borrow books from the library that had a 'P' on the spine, because that was my first initial. My mum thought I was a slow learner, since I brought home the same series of books about a monkey every time we had library class. I don't know why I thought this.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- 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
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty