This thread is giving me lots of new books to consider, too! Oddly enough, I've never actually read The Count of Monte Cristo. I wonder if it's a case of loving an author's one work so much that I don't even desire to read anything else as it can't possibly be that good... Hmm. Worth thinking about!
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Originally Posted by Gazella
Wait. What?? Did I read this wrong. You read an Alexandre Dumas novel in KG??
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I read before kindergarten - thanks to my grandma taking the time to teach me the letters before I was two, I was reading books (as in books with words
) on my own at three and had moved on to thick tomes - as long as they were exciting! - by four or five.
It's slightly unusual but not very - I don't have any scientific data to back this up with, but I have a feeling it's easier for kids to learn to read at a younger age in more or less fully phonetic languages (compared to, say, English, which looks, in comparison, enormously complicated to first learn to read in). Certainly everyone I knew as a child could read before school (and did read, and we never had the sort of "you're too young for this; go read something easier" attitude that seems to be common in some places, so kids read anything from basic chapter books to grown-up books as long as they were full of adventure and excitement).