Reading has been so incorporated into my being, that it plays a part in many of my earliest memories. Reading truly starts when one recognizes the purpose of letters, and that happened to me at the age of 2. Visiting my grandmother, a relative offered to read a book to me, and I selected the children's 'dictionary', much to their surprise. A is for apple, B is for Ball. It was at that moment that I understood the purpose of the alphabet. From then on my world was greatly widened. I had reoccuring dreams of falling from somewhere and landing into my crib, filled with books. As I grew, there was not enough reading material in the house for me, until a cousin graciously gave us a set of encyclopedias.
My favorite book, as a child, was "To Kill A Mockingbird" which I read 13 times before I was age 13. Obviously identifying with the charector "Scout", as many young female tomboy bookworms with caring, but somewhat irritated, older brothers tend to do.

I have often left books out 'in the wild', hoping that they would be picked up and read, but never knowing what happens to them. So I am delighted to come across this website, and will take great pleasure in cleaning up my 'library' collection through this process.

And it will all be due to a simple child's book that was left 4 months previous by bookcrossing.com member in a coffee shop, to be discovered by the sticky hot chocolate covered hands of my 3 yr old.