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Originally Posted by crossi
Did any of you read the entire encyclopedia as a child? My family had a set and I used to enjoy flopping down on my bed and reading a volume. Did your family subscribe to Readers Digest Condensed Books? They were great and mostly had some pretty good selections. Did your grade school have the book selling program, might have been called Scholastic or something similar, where you could each month select some books to buy from a monthly catalog? I remember they were pretty inexpensive and my mother would let me pick out one or two each month. Do the grade schools still do this? Lots of options back then to start kids off reading early. I don't know if they are still around. The encyclopedias at least are gone.
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Yup on encyclopedia and one of my grandmothers had a large selection of Reader's Digest Condensed. I believe I first encountered Dick Francis in one of those.
The Scholastic program sounds kind of familiar, but I don't really remember. Our library did do a summer reading program for kids. It was fairly structured, actually, you couldn't just read whatever you wanted, but had to read in quite a few different categories of books, fiction and non-fiction. I always did it and got my certificate though. It was not exactly a hardship to read more. 😁
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