I used to think the Guardian newspaper was named after someone's guardian, and when I saw comments from the Guardian on the back of books that I read as a kid, I thought it was someone's guardian saying their child enjoyed the book.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- 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
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- behind the times ment behind the newspaper!!!!!!!— Neon Anon