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[ricky]

It is very telling that our mothers gave to us the gift of reading and books...

[kindlewidow]

It is very telling that our mothers gave to us the gift of reading and books...

I thought that, too... Mother's DO have a way, huh?

[PJ]

There are three books that come to mind.  First the book we loved to have read to us the most.  It was fun to watch Mom, who to us always did everything perfectly, struggle with the tongue twisters in this book.


Next is the first book of her own my mother gave me to read.  Of course her copy had no picture on the front and just had a solid blue cover.


Finally one of the most moving stories of a mother I have ever read.  It is a story that has stayed with me to this day.  I highly recommend it.

[Gemini44]

I remember as a child, memorizing the Golden Book "Molly Goes to the Circus".  I had even memorized the page turns!  My poor mother, after having read the book to me 100+ times, now had to sit and listen to it several times a day.  One of the best things in life, after learning how to read, was my mom taking me to get my very own library card.  That was over 60 years ago!  What a gift!

[B-Kay 1325]

Welcome Gemini44, great story and congrats on your first post!  I look forward to hearing more about you on the Introductions and Welcome board.

[Deb G]

If not for my Mother, I wouldn't read enough to justify owning my Kindle, Bob. 

My mother, God Bless Her, encouraged my love of reading:
by reading outloud to me every chance she got.
by teaching me to read phonetically before I entered kindergarten. 
by making sure I had a library card and as many trips to the library as I wanted when I was young.
by giving me gifts of GREAT books to read when I was young, many of them above my age level, but oh so much fun to read (Little House on the Prairie series, Pippi Longstocking, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allen Poe, The Wizard of Oz, the Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind, the list goes on and on and on).

So, to thank her, I just got mom a Kindle for her gift this coming Mother's Day on my Amazon account and can't wait to start sharing books with her via my Kindle Account. 

THANK YOU MOM!!!  You rock!

 

[DD]

If not for my Mother, I wouldn't read enough to justify owning my Kindle, Bob. 

My mother, God Bless Her, encouraged my love of reading:
by reading outloud to me every chance she got.
by teaching me to read phonetically before I entered kindergarten. 
by making sure I had a library card and as many trips to the library as I wanted when I was young.
by giving me gifts of GREAT books to read when I was young, many of them above my age level, but oh so much fun to read (Little House on the Prairie series, Pippi Longstocking, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allen Poe, The Wizard of Oz, the Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind, the list goes on and on and on).

So, to thank her, I just got mom a Kindle for her gift this coming Mother's Day on my Amazon account and can't wait to start sharing books with her via my Kindle Account. 

THANK YOU MOM!!!  You rock!

 

This is so beautifully said, Deb.  Your mom is a lucky mom and you are a lucky daughter!

[Luckymomx4]

Although my mother passed away when I was 14 - she always read to us when we were younger.  She instilled the importance and the pleasure of a good book.

I don't have a favorite "mom" book.  But I do love this book:



It's the story of a woman and her crazy life with her fun, but sometimes crazy mom.

[LCEvans]

Angela's Ashes. My mother got the book and let me read it when she was done. She said Angela reminded her of her own mother.



Also, Blessed Are The Brood Mares. Okay, this one is about mother horses, not mother people. But I love horses and brood mares are amazing.

[kendall83]

I wanted to find something that would show her how much I appreciate everything that she has done so I'll be getting her this for Mother's Day.

Someday, I'll Ask You

[Neversleepsawink;)]

I wanted to find something that would show her how much I appreciate everything that she has done so I'll be getting her this for Mother's Day.

Someday, I'll Ask You

That book sounds awesome, I'm sure she'll love it

[Stephanie924]

My daughter presented me with this book shortly after my divorce from her dad which had caused some very trying times for our relationship.  This book, to me, is the turning point in us becoming the best of friends today.

[Cindy416]

My mother had many talents, and left me with many great childhood memories of her, but she wasn't one of those moms who read to me a lot. (My half-sister, who was 12 years older than I, read to me a lot, though.) The one book that I remember my mom reading to me over and over was one that had a bedtime story for every day of the year. She read those same stories to me every year until I was old enough to complain that I wanted to hear something different.  I also remember that she tried to read an actual "chapter book" to me at bedtime, but kept falling asleep in the middle of sentences. I think I complained once too often about that, too.  I think that was about the time that Mom decided that, since I could read anyway, maybe I should read myself to sleep.  I began doing just that, and have been an avid reader ever since.

[kdawna]

My parents divorced when I was a senior in high school. My dad remarried several years later to my stepmom Sue, who is only 5 yrs older than me. She is wonderful and she is always there when I need her, to babysit my kids, hear my problems and encourage me. I consider her one of my best friends. For my birthday in April of 1980 she gave me Tyndale's "The Living Bible". It really became a great comfort to me after my husband was killed in an automobile accident in July of that year, I was also pregnant and later lost that baby. I still read it to this day.
 She also introduced me to Janette Oke series , the first one being "Love Comes Softly", about a man who needed a wife to care for his child. I remarried in Dec of 1981 to my husband who had a son, and I also had a son.
  My mom gave me a very special book many years ago I was happy to find on Kindle. It was originally called "Intro Muros" , by Rebecca Ruter Springer,1898. It was also a comfort to read after my husband died because it is now known as "My Dream of Heaven". It's a really special book and I reccomend it to anyone needing peace after a death of a loved one.
 Kdawna

[chynared21]

I also remember that she tried to read an actual "chapter book" to me at bedtime, but kept falling asleep in the middle of sentences. I think I complained once too often about that, too. 

LOL...a couple of years ago, DD decided she was going to read to me. I think she was reading chapter books by then and I would fall asleep...lol. Even though she knew I was asleep, she'd continue reading a few extra chapters until she was sleepy 

[Dori]

I gave my mother a book of Robert Frosts poems many many years ago. She has been gone now since 1992, so I recently passed this same book along to a nephew.  He was so delighted to have it.

[RavenclawPrefect]

My mother left this life nearly 12 years ago, before she got the chance to see most of my children.  Despite the fact they never met her, she is alive to them through the books she loved and I have now.  Whenever I read


I can't help but think of her.  I was only about 12 when the book came out and she allowed me to read it, despite other adults telling her it was too advanced for me.  She always respected me enough to let me read books that were not traditionally kid books.  I had teachers tell me that I was picking books for "sensational" titles (The Bastard series) or that were way too much for me (Roots) but my mom would ask me about what I read and I always knew I could ask about anything I didn't understand.

That has been passed along to my kids.  The little fiends know I will rarely say no to a book even if I have said no to everything else.

Moms really do pass along the love of reading and I am very glad my mom was a wonderful model of reading to me.

[DAB]

Both my parents taught me to love reading. Actually, "taught" is the wrong word -- although my mother was, by profession, a teacher. But they instilled in me a love for reading. My mother introduced me to my favorite book, In This House of Brede, by Rumer Godden, when I was in 8th grade. It opened my eyes to the richness that religious worship and practice can add to faith and, thus, to life. I've read it probably more than a dozen times since. My father gave me a Kindle for my birthday last year, so I have them to thank for my love of reading at all parts of my life. When In This House of Brede becomes available on the Kindle, I'll have come full circle.

My mom and I shared books. I later returned the favor and introduced her to one of my favorite authors, The Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton (whose latest book, Jesus Wept, just became available for the Kindle upon its release). When my mother passed away three years ago, just a year after her retirement from teaching -- she was only 65 -- my father and brother wanted me to have her Bible. In the front flyleaves, she had inscribed some of her favorite quotes from her reading, from Garrison Keillor and Anne Lamott to Blaise Pascal and Martin Luther King, Jr. But probably no one is quoted more heavily in those flyleaves than Barbara Crafton. One Crafton quote she loved in particular stood out for me, partly because it's in the middle of the Bible's "title page," but mostly because it so simply sums up my feelings for my mother: "It will matter that we're gone if it mattered that we were here."

To her family, her students, her church, her friends and the many people she helped through much volunteer work and charitable giving, it definitely mattered that my mother was here. I had the honor of meeting Barbara Crafton when she came to my church to preach one summer Sunday. It was about a month or so after my mother had died, and I brought her Bible with me to church, to show Barbara all her quotes in my mother's handwriting. She let me cry a bit as I thanked her for the books she's written that became such great gifts to give my mom for Mother's Days and birthdays. She understood. Barbara's own mother had passed away many years before, but, she said, "not a day goes by that I don't think about her in one way or another." Just hearing a trusted author say that helped me in turning my grief into memories and, eventually, joy again at those memories.

My mother was many things, but among them, she would agree that she was very much a reader. Thank God she married one and, together, they raised two more.

Happy Mother's Day! Happy reading!

[rla1996]

When I was small my mom used to read me little golden books everynight before bed.  I still love The Porky Little Puppy, The Little Engine that Could, the Tawny Scrawny Lion and Griffin's Griffin.  I think it was her reading to me when I was small that gave me my love for reading.
rla1996

[zeferjen]

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[ProfCrash]

Mom took my siblings and I to the library every week. We were all encouraged to read what we wanted, books, magazines, comic books, cereal boxes.... I can't say that there is one book that reminds me of Mom but I know this is one of her favorites from when we were kids.

[Annalog]

Mom took my siblings and I to the library every week. We were all encouraged to read what we wanted, books, magazines, comic books, cereal boxes.... I can't say that there is one book that reminds me of Mom but I know this is one of her favorites from when we were kids.

I remember that one from Captain Kangaroo.

[ProfCrash]

I remember that one from Captain Kangaroo.

I loved Captain Kangaroo....

[esper_d]

Awww, thank you! 

Wow, what a cool idea

[Neversleepsawink;)]

Awww, thank you! 

Thank you!  I plan on doing the same thing with my son now.  He is almost 7...I might wait a year before we do this.  I want to buy him the Oberon Running Horses Journal.  He loves horses