From: Ruth I Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:29:49 -0700

As a youthesse, I anxiously awaited the arrival of "Nat'l Geog" every month and "read" it long before I could actually read." Ergo, I read the pictures and gradually the captions, then the maps and the articles. Magazines with as many colorful photos and drawings such as those still in
"N.G." are/were an endless source of wonder and I still believe they sped me on my way to become one of those sinners, a reader.

I also "read" the dictionary (which didn't have as many sketches as today's do) and the volumes of encyclopedia.--pictorial attraction of the different which became the new (or gnu if that was the page).

I may have already sent this notion (and if so ditch it), but series books like the Nancy Drews, Judy Boltons, the Dana girls (were they twins?) also occupied a good deal of my private time. And I think I would still suggest such series but I haven't looked at the new ones in years.

Big Grandma
(who is not a good keyboardist)

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
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