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I was thinking lately about books that turned people into readers.
My father-in-law brought back the first Harry Potter from Scotland before it became the big smashing American success.
My daughter, Em, had just turned four.
She insisted that we had to read it to her straight, all day, for two days.
She didn’t care about the adverbs that drove her Honors English teacher grandpa crazy. She didn’t care about giant purple dinosaurs on television. She didn’t care about eating. She only cared about Harry.
The next month she decided to read it again herself. It was pretty amazing watching this tiny little girl reading her first big girl book. It was so heavy in her hands.
Em has always been a reader, a great reader, but I think her joy over that Harry Potter book that came all the way from Scotland is what has probably made her a reader for life. I’ll always be grateful to JK Rowling and Harry and my English-teacher father-in-law for that.
For me that book was either the Wrinkle in Time or The Hobbit or Where the Red Fern Grows.
How about you? Was there one book that made you a reader? As a writer, the best moments in my whole damn career are the moments where people write me and say, “I never read a whole book until I read NEED” or “I never wanted to read a whole book until I read NEED.”
I want all my writer friends to have those moments, too. There is nothing better.
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