Thank you so much for your comment Hive account@ladypenelope1. Thats how it went with my own childhood as well, my fathers living room was walled on 3 sides with floor to ceiling books and it became a love of both reading and writing for me. My son is almost 6 now and does enjoy reading more and more, especially since this has been his first year at school, in prep, and he has been learning to read. We have loved many of Julie Donaldsons books over the years, The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, have you read this one, its excellent, and now he enjoys trying to read them himself. We actually used Caterpillar Spring as his 'reader' tonight and I found using the easy to read books he loved as a baby a great way to get him to do his reader as well. I think I'll do another post about that at some point.