The love of reading

It has been a long road to get to this point with our daughter! To see her sitting like this, on her own, brings me joy :) She began to read very early (we have video at 3 years old reading Dick and Jane) but reading for her has always been a "school" activity. There had not been a real love for reading in her. She was content to read short kids books (Amelia Bedelia, Dr. Seuss etc) during school hours or to her brothers when they asked, but I wanted to get her into more mature reading material. For Christmas I came across the Rachel Yoder series which is written by a Wanda E. Brunstetter, a Christian author. The series is about a 10 year old girl growing up in Amish country. I gave her the first 4 books in the series and asked her to start reading the first one during her independent reading time. The first half of the book was me constantly reminding her to go read a few pages each day. By the mid-point, I didn't have to remind her anymore, and towards the last 3 chapters.....she eagerly grabbed her book wondering what was going to happen next. Today, I'm proud to say, our girl has finished her first book on her own and can't wait to start the next one.