https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl Made with an open mind en-us 2016-09-06 15:06:23 UTC 2016-09-06 16:19:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121826623 This is the first book I can remember my mom reading to me. I use to look at the pictures over and over imagining myself inside.  I was maybe 5 years old when I had it memorized.  Unfortunately it was one of the only books she ever read to me.]]> 2016-09-06 15:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121826623 tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121827836 This is the first chapter book I remember reading that was by choice.  I picked this book out at my school's book fair.  We got to choose just one.  I picked it because it had a cat on the cover and I loved cats.  I remember loving this book but struggling with parts.  I was not a good reader in school.]]> 2016-09-06 15:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121827836 tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121835788 I could not read this book in elementary school, but I would check it out every week. I remember that the librarian would make me find a different book. But then the very next week I would check this one out again. I taught myself to read with this book. I practiced and practiced because I really wanted to know what was being said. I think for first through third grade I always had this book with me.]]> 2016-09-06 15:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121835788 tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121837493 My reading life stopped in middle school.  I read only what I had to.  Then when I was 20, a friend recommended Stephen King's The Shinning.  I loved it.  I was a reader.  Since then I started reading in the wild.]]> 2016-09-06 15:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121837493 tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121841246 This series is one of my all time favorites and I have read and read them over and over. I am currently rereading the series and am on book 6.]]> 2016-09-06 15:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121841246 tvkerscher https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121846397 This is the first chapter book I read aloud to my own children. I loved it so much and felt they needed to hear the struggles of a black family living in the 1960s]]> 2016-09-06 16:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tvkerscher/y4hdehx1p0kl/wish/121846397