What was the book turned you into A Reader?

Remembering the stories of our childhood together

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 …