From that night on, I would spend every evening looking through the book until I could make myself see the words that I was reading. Soon, I moved on to other adventures. So when kindergarten came, I was ahead of the other kids, because of my head start on literacy. I didn't need to know how to get on the computer to download the story, nor did I have to know how to set up the cassette player to listen to it. Instead, I had to simply walk up to the shelf and grab the book off the case.
Stories touch each and every one of our five senses.
However with all the new interactive ways to experience a story, these works of literature are in danger of losing the art of touching our deepest feelings. Something an old-fashioned book has that no computer or cassette player can ever possess is the sensation one gets when curling up in a bed or sofa with no other cares in the world that can interrupt your adventure. One night a violent storm shook our home brutally, and knocked out the power in our town. In the pitch-black darkness, with a candle ablaze in the night, a scared little boy was comforted by his mom as he was all snug and protected by a blanket, listening to his favorite story being read to him. Nowadays, my horizon has spread from the simplistic crazy world of Dr. Seuss to the depths of literature with William Shakespeare, and also to the savage quests of the Middle Ages through the eyes of a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins.