now imagine you’re on a ship maybe your
sailor for one of the passengers okay
now picture the waves crashing around
the boat what is it like can you feel
the cold salty water splash your face
you leaned over the rail hoping to catch
a glimpse of some strange big creature
you can open your eyes now I have a
bookworm an escape artist a dreamer and
a believer in all things fixed some
people ask me why I bring so much one so
antisocial just for the record I am NOT
anti-social I’m one of those people that
you will call an extra I really love and
you know for my friends but sometimes I
can’t so when I do have to stay home
books give me a place to go the summer
that I trade for my oldest sister Mina
has decided that she didn’t want to wait
for my home to teach me how to read so
she stepped up and taught me herself
ever since then I have loved reading and
that love for reading grows every day
did you know the books are time machines
it’s true you can go pretty much
anywhere you want when you’re reading a
book say you wanted to make so much
payments from history like Amelia
Earhart Pocahontas for Davy Crockett
well guess what I’ve met them all and I
just met them I’ve actually become them
I’ve been George Washington bravely
leading the United States troops into
battle I’ve been Neal
sure the first man to walk on the moon
and I have been Joan of Arc martyr for
my beliefs that’s what I love about
reading I can be a thousand different
people in a thousand different places in
the short span of a few hours there’s
some books that you just read so
actually enjoy but then there are those
which is swallow you up heart and soul
those are the kind of books that I love
to read there are many different kinds
of its in the world instructional
geographical historical biographies
fairy tales romance novels school books
hype intro novels poetry you get the
point but my favorite kind of book is
the kind that you pick up Theresa just a
few minutes hours later you look up and
realize you have life Oh real light I
like books that make me laugh and cry
all at the same time in books that don’t
just make me want to read them but they
people want to crawl inside and live in
the story forever who here likes
watching movies okay so if you think
about it books are just like movies but
feel better trust me in a movie you
already see what everybody looks like
what kind of places there in but in a
book not only do you get to decide what
everything looks like but you also be to
decide what color the flowers are what
shape the trees are and even what color
the sky is like you can imagine this guy
to be purple for all I care used to tell
you otherwise I mean come on what’s
better they’re getting to say whether or
not a dog looks like a cat over an
elephant looks like a mess here’s here
are a few of the books for serious that
I have found and I really love the 100
cupboards series
Wilson but a young boy who calls on
adventures with his cousins and if I
thought who he truly is the LC Dinsmore
series by Martha Finley about a young
girl living in the 1800s she’s reunited
with her father a few years of never
knowing him the anagram cable series by
LM Montgomery bowdish fry would he read
ahead girl who gets adopted by an
elderly brother and sister and the
redwall series by Brian jacks about
talking animals would have sword fights
and God ventures together that one is
really fun to imagine now you might all
be wondering what makes it look really
good I’m glad you asked because I was
about to tell you that first of all a
good book catches your attention at the
very beginning it invites you to sit and
stay awhile a good book describes things
so well the evening someone no
imagination at all can picture what’s
happening in their minds a good book has
great character development because
characters that you can sympathize with
characters that bloom and grow not just
physically but spiritually to a good
book helps you appreciate the little
things it can open your mind up to the
ideas and encourage you to chase your
dreams reading it’s like dreaming if
your eyes wide open Oscar Wilde said if
one cannot enjoy reading a book over and
over again there’s no point in reading
it at all now some people if you’re
really techy like to your phone or
tablet to read a book but digital books
still tears or pressed flowers between
the pages or have the author’s names
good friend of mine told me the other
day that he went to visit the school
while I was there he was taken to the
library all that was in that room was a
bunch of tables when he asked the world
of books lint they said oh we’ve got
completely digital all of our students
whose iPads now as a passionate lover
this is a huge concern for me what
happens in 50 years when digital books
are the only thing people go for and we
no longer have the paper book I
sincerely hope the people will not
website if the incredible value as a
paper book and continue to use it above
digital devices now you may not be the
kind of person that likes to sit down
and read a book maybe it’s too boring or
too much like school or work I want to
challenge you to find a book I’m reading
with your mind wide open in your
imagination on non a book on your phone
or tablet but one of the real paper and
real link try to put yourself in the
character issues as if you were really
living in story form you just may be the
fall in love with reading and become a
bookworm like me come help me bring back the love for reading that has been lost