One of my big sister's friends was reading a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book. I was afraid of it because I believed if you read it, you would actually be transformed into an animal.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- I used to believe in the night my dog transformed in a wolf and ate the animals of my neighbourhood.— Tessy French students in eighth grade
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara