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What was the book turned you into A Reader?
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What was the book turned you into A Reader?

Remembering the stories of our childhood together

Sarah Bessey
May 1, 2020
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A few years ago, we opened up storage bins at my parents’ home because we were looking for old Golden books for the then-tinies. Tucked into the keepsake box, I found a tattered book.

It was falling apart, this ratty paperback. Nothing special, just a cheaply bound mass print from the 1965 run of Scholastic book services called Helen Keller’s Teacher by …

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