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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
Yeah, I picked up a love of reading and fascination with books before starting school - my mom saw how much I enjoyed it when she read to me when I was a kid and I owe a lot to her on that. She made books exciting...
Of course when I had my own child, I was determined and excited to get him into reading, but despite all my efforts -- and maybe just stubborness because he knows it's what I wanted -- he is not a reader either :/
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Yeah, my niece is living with me now and we're doing our best to brainwash her into becoming a reader.
Timing is bad, because we can't take her to a bookstore or the library to browse the shelves herself. We're trying to find things on our own. Goosebumps flopped (she's a little too young. She mainly found them boring), Captain Underpants was great until she watched the series on Netflix and the books lost their lustre.
So far, the two that gained the most traction are the Roald Dahl boxed set and the Encyclopedia Brown books.