I’m Thankful for Books: Part 4

More books we’re thankful for… What books are you thankful for? Make sure you comment below.

(And also make sure you read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of our thankful series.)

“Somebody Up There Likes Me” by Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber
from Leslie Shapiro
I am most grateful for “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” the autobiography of one of the great American boxers, Rocky Graziano.  My youngest stepson, although coming from a family of avid readers, did not enjoy pleasure reading and hated to do school book reports. (I know, I am dating myself!)  He would have preferred to play any type of sports.  However, when he read the Graziano autobiography, he was fascinated by Rocky’s life and we had a hard time getting him to put the book down.  This book was responsible for turning him only to the world of books and made him a voracious reader.

Another Trio of Thanks
from Paul Stankus
“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss: It was the first book that I read by myself without any help. That book opened up for me a love of learning that I hold to this day. Later, when I became a parent, I read it to my son and continued the tradition.

“The Little Engine that Could” by Watty Piper: You may not be the strongest engine, the shiniest engine, or the oldest engine in the roundhouse, but if you have heart, you will climb the mountain. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can!

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle:  The first “big” book I read in second grade and where I found that made up words like Tesseract were actually real. It is also the original “It was a dark and stormy night” that has inspired generations of other thrillers, including a future one of my own.