Books/book club: What books did your parents read to you?2
 

Mr men

I don't think they read to me at all. I have no memory of that anyway

I have no memory of them reading to us. My mum was a big reader herself and she encouraged us to read on our own from an early age and she did the same with my son (although I do remember her reading to him when he was little - but she was a much softer grandma than she was a mum lol). She did instill a love of reading in us though and in my son, who still loves to read now (although only when I prise his phone out of his hand)

…yeah I don’t recall that either, I think that owning a book/buying one to read to your children was probably quite a more ‘wealthy’ specific thing than for the average working family…and I don’t imagine there were sources of free books back in the day…we did have books, which we read ourselves and which were given as birthday/Christmas gifts…but they weren’t really read to us so much as we read ourselves because that was our own story world so I think that’s how we preferred it…

…when they were at school, I always loved to read the books/stories that they were studying just so that we could talk about our takes on different aspects etc…I didn’t read them to them, though..we read independently but would share thoughts…

We always got a book for Christmas. My mum always wrote a message inside the cover too saying when "Merry Christmas 1981, love Mum & Dad" or something like that so we knew when they were bought

The Gruffalo was a favourite of my kids though that I used to read to them

…yeah same, that one of my parents always wrote a personal note inside with the year given …I think those personal nostalgic attachments also contribute so much to why paper copy books still feel so special and exciting to own…:love:…