Author Lewis Buzbee and his daughter Maddy tackle a big fat book.
Lewis wrote:
Five Things About Me as a Young Reader
1. I was not a voracious reader as a child — I watched a lot more TV than I read books. My love for reading didn’t start until I was in high school.
2. Neither of my parents had gone to college, and were not what you would call literary. But they read, for their own pleasure and information. My mother read Gothic novels, the precursors to today’s Romance novels. My father read the newspaper every morning at breakfast — he’d read it to us — and he read magazines like Argosy and True Stories.
3. My favorite way to buy books was through the Scholastic Books catalog. My second favorite way was at the local five and dime.
4. My favorite early books were all very generic — The Long Bomb, Murder by Moonlight, Mystery Under the Sea, Radar Commandos. I loved those books.
5. I can still remember the moment, when I was six, when I realized the word “says” on the page was pronounced “sez.” That was a moment of profound understanding.
Lewis Buzbee is a San Francisco-based author of many fine books for both adults and children, including: The Haunting of Charles Dickens . . .
