My Reading Life Earliest memories of reading.

1968 Weekly Reader Book of the Month Club and Little Golden Books

1970’s first memory of reading independently Charlotte’s Web, Beezus and Ramona and anything by Beverly Cleary

Nancy Drew Series3rd Grade Teacher read Angel Unaware aloud to the class

First experience with YA In 1980 I remember reading Beverly ClearySister of the Bride and Fifteen as a high school student

As a young adult reader I read Harlequin Romance books then I took my first Children’s Lit Class in college at SHSU and I fell in love with

Children’s books all over again

• 1986 First Teaching job – I read Superfudge and How to Eat Fried Worms to my students and we used the Weekly Reader papers each week.

1987- 1988

2nd teaching jobWe read the Lion the Witch and the WardrobeAnd A Wrinkle in Time

Late 1980’s in my personal life I was reading Mary Higgins Clark

My son was born in 1988 so I was back to my love of Children’s Lit and I was reading them to my son

1988 - 1997• Teaching Kindergarten and raising my own children-

my days were filled with reading Children’s books and my son discovered The Boxcar Children and Hank the Cowdog books.

Personally I discovered John Grisham and James Patterson

2004 - 2006• Went back to SHSU for Masters in Library Science and was

introduced to Children’s Lit and Young Adult Lit classes with Dr. Lesesne which opened up a whole new world for me that I didn’t really have much experience with… Young Adult Literature and it has been my favorite since that time

2007 – to present 2014• Just a few of my favorites