and we chatted for ages one Sunday morning. Lo and behold: it was the same old read aloud story -- a story that never ceases to excite me, no matter how often I hear it. Angie told me she began reading to Sean -- who is now nine -- from three months and that Time for Bed was the first of my books she bought. Angie couldn't remember exactly when she first read Reading Magic , but she was fairly certain it was when Sean was almost two years old and she claims she was an instant convert. She said she couldn't believe it could be so simple and told lots of her friends about Reading Magic , for which I could kiss her feet. Sean's reading developed very quickly. At 3yrs 7mths he had a reading age of 7yrs 7mths and a vocabulary understanding of a child of fourteen and half and Angie says it was just from doing the things I recommended. (What a publicist! I should employ her.) Sean appeared on Today Tonight, a tabloid TV evening program in Australia. The segment was called Genius Kid. He was also on the front page of the main newspaper for southern Tasmania, in an article entitled 'Smart Sean in a class of his own'. Here's part of it: When Russel and Angelea Galloway have trouble with their computer they turn to their four-year-old son Sean for help. 'He normally works it out,' Mrs Galloway said at their home near