My Favorite Books and Authors

Hi. I learned to read at age two. It wasn't my mother's idea. Or my father's. It's just that they kept reading stories to me and I wanted more stories and they had other things to do. I'd seen the pages, there weren't all *that* many little symbols that made up the the words. I should be able to learn those. So one day (I actually do remember this), I saw a large box up on a table with some of these symbols on the side. I pointed at the first one. "Whaz dis?" (Hey, I was two, I couldn't speak plainly and couldn't say most of the words I understood.) My mother looked where I was pointing and said, "It's a box." I said, "No! No! Whaz dis?" It took several rounds with her getting more puzzled and me louder and louder before it hit her that I wanted the *letters*. As soon as she told me the letter's name, I calmed down and asked for the next one. My parents saw that I had alphabet books, beginning readers, children's dictionarys and such immediately so that I could learn since I wanted to so badly. Of course, most of these books were left over from them teaching my elder siblings who'd had to be home schooled for awhile. (But that is another story.)