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Any success in my life is due to the excellence my parents expected when I was young.
The 2 most important activities they encouraged that affected my development were art & reading. I've always loved to draw & make things. My household was one where creativity in all forms was encouraged. However, book smarts were also important. Besides making sure we had encyclopedias & interesting things to read in the house, my Mom would take me w/ my siblings to the public library regularly. When I was in elementary school, I used to take out a stack out books each time I went to the library that I would read through completely by the time they were due back.
Although I also liked learning about 'conventional' subject matter, my favorite books as a kid were about strange phenomena & ancient mysteries.
The Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown series and the Usborne World of the Unknown books were the beginning of my life-long fascination with The Unexplainable.
I found a website, The Haunted Closet, that has pages from these classic Usborne books that brought back hours of my young imagination going wild.
My favorite Usborne Book was definitely the one about UFO's:
The 2 most important activities they encouraged that affected my development were art & reading. I've always loved to draw & make things. My household was one where creativity in all forms was encouraged. However, book smarts were also important. Besides making sure we had encyclopedias & interesting things to read in the house, my Mom would take me w/ my siblings to the public library regularly. When I was in elementary school, I used to take out a stack out books each time I went to the library that I would read through completely by the time they were due back.
Although I also liked learning about 'conventional' subject matter, my favorite books as a kid were about strange phenomena & ancient mysteries.
The Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown series and the Usborne World of the Unknown books were the beginning of my life-long fascination with The Unexplainable.
I found a website, The Haunted Closet, that has pages from these classic Usborne books that brought back hours of my young imagination going wild.
The Haunted Closet:
My favorite Usborne Book was definitely the one about UFO's:
Great scans! I loved these books dearly as a child too. Thanks for the memories. And I agree about being exposed to plenty of books as a child is good parenting.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for these scans, I loved these books as a kids and the pictures bring back vivid memories - many thanks again
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