Thank you to our community friends and neighbors who joined the children in releasing their green and white balloons to celebrate reading in Greene County.
When I was a young girl, I read all of the time. I could escape in books and discover places in which I could travel and meet new people; I could go to faraway places and learn new things about the people who lived there. I remember that the books I loved the most in elementary and junior high schools were Nancy Drew mysteries and the books about a talking Pig. I think his name was Freddie.
I loved Freddie the Pig books because Freddie talked to the other animals on the farm. He travelled far and wide and had many, many adventures and shared his stories with the other animals on the farm. I remember in one book, Freddie was a detective, in another he was a politician, in another he was a pilot and then a magician. There were so many Freddie books that I could read all day and many nights. Did I stop and consider that pigs couldn’t talk? NO. His stories were so fascinating that I did not even stop to think that a talking pig did not make sense!
Reading can do that for you. Reading can take you places that you may not be able to go by yourself. Reading can introduce you to people that you have never met before. And, reading can teach you things you never would think you could learn.
That’s why I think reading is fundamental!
Reading is a skill that everyone must have in order to survive in today’s world. It is not a 21st century skill, but an old world skill. You see, long ago if you could read, you were an important person and you were probably a person of wealth because books cost money. There were no libraries a long time ago.
Today we have many places to go to find books that won’t cost us anything. We can find books in our school libraries, books in our homes, and even more books in the county or public libraries. These books are free to use, to borrow and return to obtain the next book.
Jackie Broderick, Greene County Library Manager, quoted Frederick Douglas by stating, ‘once you learn to read, you will be forever free.’
Ms. Broderick stated, “Reading 15 minutes every Tuesday evening in March from 7-7:15 p.m. will allow us to be free to dream our dreams, reach our goals and aspire to be all we can be.”
Join us in helping our children understand why Reading is Fundamental. Be a good role model for the children, read at least one day a week – Tuesdays in March. Of course this “is all about the children.”
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