Of course I have no memory of this. I went to a kind of school and learnt to read when I was four, but all I can remember is the height of the steps I had to climb up to get to my seat - we were on a little platform, and I think the top of the three steps was level with my head. And my mother didn't keep my books and toys either. The earliest book I can remember getting as a birthday or Christmas present and reading a lot of, though, is quite interesting: an American poetry anthology for children which appeared in 1957 and I got it then, so I was ten. And I found it is still published today. It had a wonderfully wide selection of poems and was on beautiful thick paper - a luxury in those days - and had modern printing. Here it is at amazon.com, and you can look inside and see all the contents: Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls [Hardcover] Helen Ferris Tibbets (Author…
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Amazon.com: Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls (9780385076968): Helen Ferris Tibbets, Leonard Weisgard: Books
