Hola
“Hola! We’re playing at the beach today,” is the first sentence of my son’s current favorite book called, yup, you guessed it, A Day at the Beach. That has nothing to do with anything, other than I’m Jackie, the new writer for Tiny Treasury and the first thing that came to mind for my first post was to say ‘hi.’
The first book I read by myself was Meg and Mog and it’s gotten better and better since then. I love to read. I love reading so much I became a Reading Specialist. I love books so much I’m the treasurer of my local Friends of the Library organization. I’m looking forward to reading more books and writing about them here.
Seriously, I love books. Whenever my dad talks about my soon-to-be 18-month-old son Sam he asks, “Do you remember what you could do when you were 18-months-old? You knew the whole alphabet. It’s because I read to you every night.” I honestly have no recollection of knowing the alphabet, but I remember begging my dad to read ten more chapters of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz before I went to bed and I quite clearly recall asking my stunned father what a period was when I read about them for the first time in Are you there God? It’s me Margaret . My father’s greatest gift to me was teaching me how to value books and the stories they contain.
I love children’s literature and I’m thrilled to have an excuse to read more of it. Storytelling, more than anything else, is what makes us human.
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