Somewhere between 1953-1956, on my evening trips with my father to the Rochester (NY) Public Library on Winton Road near University Avenue, in my wanderings among the children\u2019s stacks, I found at my eye level a book about 7\u201dx 5\u201d, about 1\/2\u201d thick,\u00a0 that had a brown cover with an illustration of squirrels. It was about squirrels and other animals in the forest. But squirrels were the stars.<\/p>\n
Each page had maybe two short paragraph\u2019s worth of words – maybe three sentences each.\u00a0 Each page had illustrations too.\u00a0 It was the first book that looked to me like a \u201creal\u201d book, not a children\u2019s read-to-by-an-adult book.\u00a0 It was a book I could read, meant to be read by me in solitude.<\/p>\n
I read it over and over. I just remember the squirrels, the brownish-orange of the cover, the lovely large print, but not so large that there weren\u2019t paragraphs. The squirrels were very happy\u00a0 in their forest lives; I was so happy in my reading life.<\/p>\n
Not much to go on, that\u2019s for sure. I just paid my four dollars, though. Why not try?<\/p>\n
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