My mom bought me a Guinness Book of World Records when I was 8 and I loved reading it because I thought it would make me a genius. Why did I think that? Well, I didn't know what "Guinness" was nor how it was pronounced, so I assumed it was called the "Genius's Book of World Records"!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon