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Pat Ivey

Ivey is a former staff writer of the Courier News.

Give your child the world through books

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Even as a child, I was a voracious reader. Oh, of course, my parents read to all of us at bedtime when we were little, but of the three of us, I am the only one who began at about the age of 8 spending all of my free time off in some corner with my nose stuck in a book. The local librarian knew I would be there on Saturday morning without fail to return the stack from the week before, and she always had another stack ready for me to check out. As I got older, I began reading more from the school library, but I still always had a stack of books somewhere ready to go.

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