The Side Effects of Endorphins

When I was a kid, I had a bad habit. Books always had one or two blank pages and I would rip them out and either draw pictures or write stories on those.

Matt Christopher

I don’t remember any books that I was absolutely crazy about. I did like Matt Christopher‘s books about baseball . I loved baseball as a kid. I remember one Easter Sunday I got a Matt Christopher book as a gift. Our parents loaded a station wagon.. the station wagon had wood on the side and we sat in the back facing each other. I read that book while eating a peanut butter egg.

I got carsick and threw up.

I also remember my grandfather had all these books with baseball statistics and I would read them over and over again. I loved the numbers, density and the structure of those books. It was probably a little weird for a six-year-old, I never claimed to be normal.

Still A Kid

I love reading to kids. I especially love reading books in German to our granddaughter. I really liked and she does too The Hungry Caterpillar.

As for our grandson, I just introduced him to Stella Luna. I absolutely love that story when I read it to my kids.

My parents were not readers, but somewhere along the line I became a voracious reader. It is nice having a grandmother who was a librarian.