When my mother started reading to me, I was about the age of 6. A world full of adventures opened right in front of me. She read Pinkeltje, Puck en de Petteflet and Jip en Janneke to me and my twin sister. While she read Pinkeltje to us, I imagined I was Pinkeltje and that I was the one who experienced all those adventures. You can imagine that my dreams had no boundaries and that I had the wildest dreams after my mother read such stories. Those dreams and the creativity, which I developed during those reading sessions, have become very valuable to me.
Nowadays I love to read, but I must be drawn into the book immediately or otherwise I will put the book away, and never start reading that book again. This is because all children books start,most of the time,with a lot of adventure and so you get drawn in the book right away.
My twinsister and I both pictured ourselves to be Jip en Janneke, when we played together we often had Jip en Janneke at the back of our minds and tried to be the same as them. The bond we have and will always have is so close and I believe that our adventures, while playing together that were based on our reading behaviour,are the foundation of this relationship .
That is why reading is so special to me.
