This reminds me a bit of a story from when our guys (now almost 30 and 30+) were young. Our older son was clearly starting to read, but was resistant to demonstrate that. The grandparents were getting antsy because he was, if I recall, pushing 8 and still wasn't really observably reading (in their view). I took the guys to a big bookstore sale, and at some point came across both boys sitting in the aisle as the older one read a book - aloud - to his younger brother. It was a little book on giant octopuses, which was a topic he'd been fascinated by. It was like the floodgates opened, and suddenly he was undeniably a reader, and began to gobble up loads of books. As is often the case, his younger brother jumped on that bandwagon too. It's just a matter of the right time and the right book, I think...
Right! For Uma, she was an ok reader for a long time but nothing special. Then, I happened to pick up volume one of the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi and that was it! Like you said, flood gates!
This reminds me a bit of a story from when our guys (now almost 30 and 30+) were young. Our older son was clearly starting to read, but was resistant to demonstrate that. The grandparents were getting antsy because he was, if I recall, pushing 8 and still wasn't really observably reading (in their view). I took the guys to a big bookstore sale, and at some point came across both boys sitting in the aisle as the older one read a book - aloud - to his younger brother. It was a little book on giant octopuses, which was a topic he'd been fascinated by. It was like the floodgates opened, and suddenly he was undeniably a reader, and began to gobble up loads of books. As is often the case, his younger brother jumped on that bandwagon too. It's just a matter of the right time and the right book, I think...
Right! For Uma, she was an ok reader for a long time but nothing special. Then, I happened to pick up volume one of the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi and that was it! Like you said, flood gates!
I love it!