On Finishing the "Red Pyramid"

To read to a child
To start them on that adventure...
I remember all of us lying on the bed
While mom read "The Happy Hollisters".
My first Library book
Was "Thidwick the Bighearted Moose"
The first chapter book
I read by myself
Was "Sick-a-Bed Sally".
In fourth grade I discovered adventure
"Castle of Adventure"
"Valley of Adventure"
It was later as an adult
I found them in the classics.
Who knew
I only knew
I loved Anne of Avonlea, Jo March,
Sherlock Holmes and anything by
Robert Louis Stevenson.
A shared experience
A shared book
Connecting us across the ages.