For the first tender years of my life (ages birth to 7 years), I grew up in the James E. Scott Community Housing Projects. Folks who lived there just called it “the projects”. My older siblings told me that we were poor so I believed them. They were older than me! They must know everything. Right? It didn't help that when I asked my mother to buy me certain things her answer was always “We don't have the money for that.”
So I resigned myself to believing that poor people don't have much to look forward to in this world. Until one day my mother gave me some books. My mother had a lot of friends who were school teachers and they always gave her books. The books my mother gave me were mostly fairy tales but they opened up a whole new world for me. The storyline of most fairy tales are universal and everyone can relate. The stories are about good overcoming evil and the main characters triumphantly living happily ever after. That gives a young child something to look forward to if they are going to live in this world.
Even though I'm now an adult, I still enjoy reading fairy tales. The world is full of them, so it's not likely that you will run out of reading material. Practically every country has its own wonderful tales.
I truly believe that all children, no matter the income level of the parents, or their ethnicity or their religious beliefs, etc. … all children should …
- Number 1: Be taught how to read; and
- Number 2: Be given a set of fairy tales to begin their reading adventures.
Do you agree?
If you agree, then allow me to introduce you to Denise McGill, aka PaintDrips, a fellow freelance writer and also a children's book illustrator. She has a few suggested fairy tales for you to read for your own pleasure if you're an adult; and if you are creating a library for children, you might want to add these books to the collection.
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