The Cal Ripkens of reading
When she was in the fourth grade, Alice Ozma and her father made a commitment to read together every night for 100 nights. After 100 nights, they didn't want to stop, so they didn't, reading together for 3,218 nights straight, until she went off to college.
Isn't that sweet? Now Ozma has published a memoir about the experience, titled "The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared." She'll appear in La Verne on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop, 1030 Bonita Ave., to sign her book and talk about it. A natural question: Ask if she considered delaying college.
The event is also a kickoff to the store's summer reading program. Says the store's press release: "To encourage families to make their own 'Reading Promise,' Mrs. Nelson's will be offering a 25 percent discount on all of the titles Ozma and her father read together (titles are listed in the book). Also, to help kids finish their summer reading assignments, Mrs. Nelson's is offering 25 percent off of titles required by schools."
Info: (909) 599-4558, www.mrsnelsons.com.
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I think I've shared before that one of my regrets of teaching evenings is I can't be home to read to my daughter... but I make up for that by reading to her while she eats breakfast in the morning. We've made our way up to the last Harry Potter book. I'm getting pretty good at the British voices. Well, not really, but good enough for an eight-year-old. If all this turns into a book that she writes someday, all the better!
["3,218 Mornings With Daddy Doing British Accents." I did think of you and Margot and your "Popeye" reading time while writing this post. I'd go to this event tonight but I've got plans in L.A. -- DA]