Today is Day 30 of the March Slice of Life – the daily writing challenge hosted at Two Writing Teachers.
Memories of Books
I met with my writing friend Linda for our monthly get together – to share writing, a lunch, and lots of talk.
We got talking about memory and I said I had trouble remembering last week, let alone two years ago. (I couldn’t remember a book I had won 2 years ago). She said my long term memory was probably better and that I could remember favourite books I had read to my children (which is true). I then shared this story with her:
One of my youngest son’s favourite books was “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. He wanted me to sing the song every night before going to sleep.
Several years later, I attended a writer’s conference and Munsch was the keynote speaker. He read that book and even sang the song I always sang. My first thought though was – he wasn’t singing it correctly! I did get him to sign the book though – it is now my most treasured book.
It is also a book that I read regularly to my students – at least until my Mom died in 2008. After that I just could not read it.
What treasured books do you remember reading to your children?
Beverley A Baird 
My son loved any Minne and Moo boom and we read them all over and over again and giggled a lot. Thanks for asking.
I never read those ones.Kids sure do love to revisit favourite books tho.
I loved that book, and so did my children. So many good memories around books when they were small.
Thant’s for sure. Loved that time when we could cuddle and share stories.
I read that one almost every night to my son. He also loved “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak. Nice memory.
We loved Sendak’s book as well.
My girls were big Dr. Seuss fans. We can recite The Cat in the Hat from memory. We take turns saying the lines and my grandson covers his ears….
What lovely memories Carol.
Never having had children I don’t have there memories. However, one of me favorite books that I shared with my nephew was The Velveteen Rabbit.
That was a lovely book. A similar one is “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”
I’m with you: Love you forever, but I mus admit I have yet to be able to read it through without getting choked up. … even if I happen to pick it up and read it to myself …there’s something about that cycle of life that really touches me
I know what you mean. It has always affected me like that as well.