Hi Friends, I love the theme of this month and I can’t help but write about it if you haven’t guessed by now, I am a complete Bookkad!. How I love stories! Wonderful, fantastic, humour- and adventure-filled stories. I started by listening to stories told by my mother and she told us some fascinating stories, some of which I read only when I was much older. I didn’t like to read. It was hard work! All those unfriendly, big, fat words and the constant checking for their meanings! Phew! But what was I to do One day, mom refused to read aloud from the storybooks. In fact, she left a story just when we were reaching the climax! I was so angry that day. But my love for stories was too strong; so with mom’s help, I read the story, slowly, painfully, stopping every now and then for every new word or phrase it took twice, no, thrice as long that way but I did it. And how happy that made me! I was perhaps five or six------when being tall enough to reach the TV switch was a major ambition, reading a story all on my own was wonderful! And then there was no stopping me. If it was a book and it had a wonderful story to tell, I was nose deep into it only when I was not playing. You didn’t think I would have given up my super-fun playtime, did you Heh!. Of course, it also meant I was reading my older sister’s English textbooks that had some cool stories okay, they were hidden inside my textbook but mom caught me anyway! My mom really has eyes all around her head!. So moral of the story Read! In the beginning, it will be tough but persist and read anyway. Pester your parents to help you with the big, fat words or keep a dictionary handy. Because books have a secret world: when you read books, you can live multiple lives as a pirate, a pixie, a boy lost in the jungle, a girl who goes down a rabbit hole all at the same time! How cool is that