Dd squealed when Charlie found the golden ticket!!

[Molehillmountain]

I can't believe it's taken until dd's six to discover it but tonight's chapters will be magic moments of her childhood. Begged and pleaded to read on but I stood firm! Can't wait for tomorrow. I just wish she would have more confidence in reading small print-then she could be reading it under the duvet with a torch and spend the night dreaming about swimming in a chocolate river!

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Fab! And, who knows, this might spark some confidence if she wants to read on?

Maybe that enjoyment and magic would end if she had to struggle through the book herself before she was ready.

Absolutely-I'm sure my parents read it to me and then I rediscovered later.

Ah, your post just made me grin from ear to ear and i'm also a little bit teary

Reading has been a lifelong passion of mine which was encouraged by my parents - thak you m&d!

Fabulous. It was just this sort of thing that started my DD reading. I would read a set numbers of chapters and she would beg me to go on. She gradually started reading a couple of paragraphs on her own and would then tell me I had missed a whole chapter and would have to 'catch up'. Her 'thing' was ballet stories.

Brilliant. DD has just applauded the grandmother's demise in George's Marvellous Medicine. The gasps and squeals and wide-eyed attention is great isn't it? I swear when reading to dd I can see myself in the bed and hear my Dad's voice reading the same stories to me.