Top 10 Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is my Top Ten Best Bookish Memories.
- Getting a letter from Ann M. Martin after I wrote her a fan letter when I was in elementary school. I read soooooo many of her books between 1st grade and 10th grade. Love the BSC!
- Dinner with Mark Kurlansky and Maureen Ogle before they presented at an American History Teachers Collaborative workshop. So interesting to hear about their research and Mark is a Butler University grad just like me!
- Listening to Redwall with my husband on a trip to Minnesota. Redwall is his favorite book so it was fun to experience the book with him.
- Seeing Julie Cross lead a break-out session with the 2012 UMS Young Author Winners.
- Getting an email from Elizabeth Wein thanking me for posting a review of her book Code Name Verity on this blog. I loved that book and it was great to hear from her. I even gave the book to my 14 year old cousin because I knew she would love the book too.
- Having my 3-year-old son “read” books to me (he has them memorized)… especially when I don’t feel well or have had a bad day. Right now he always loudly reads Everyone Poops every single time he goes potty. Every. Single. Time.
- Winning my school’s Young Author contest when I was in 4th grade. I got a set of the Anne of Green Gables books. I love Anne.
- Any time a student gets really excited to get a book.
- Learning how to read when I was 4. My Mom taught me using old Dick & Jane books.
- Getting my Master’s Degree in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois. It was an amazing program and allowed me to become a librarian. And it was pretty cool to be assigned fun young adult books to read for class instead of heaps of boring articles.
Hello fellow librarian. Definitely getting my MLIS is a great bookish memory. That is just about the most adorable thing about your son read Everyone Poops! Thanks for sharing :)
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