Wonderful Wednesdays

A weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Tiny Library.

I'm so happy to be participating in this brand new meme!  The purpose each week is:

"...spotlighting and recommending some of our most loved books, even if we haven't read them recently.  Each week will have a different theme or genre of book to focus on."

This week's theme:

A book you loved as a child

That sure is a challenging topic!  I was reading from a very early age and so many wonderful books have stuck with me that choosing one to highlight is a daunting task.

Curious George was my favourite series as a young reader.  I remember planting myself by a small bookcase in my grade school library where all the thin yellow CG books were stacked.  I read every single one of those books, many of them in a single sitting, one after the other.  But Goes to the Hospital was by far my most favourite.  I loved all the vocabulary words I discovered from George's hospital visit, such as stethoscope, and the funny scene where George's swallowed puzzle piece appears on the X-ray machine.  This was my initiation into the school library which became my refuge and my hangout for several years.

More childhood reminiscing can be found in the first of several posts called Harking Back.