Travelling through Words

 “I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him—not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or to travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.”

                —Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

Yes I know I’ve literally just said a quote from this book, but I couldn’t decide which one I liked more AND I was serious when I said it was an amazing book. As I was scrolling Lloyd Jones Quotes. It’s true. You find a friend when you read novels perhaps an enemy sometimes too. Especially in this case the young girl, Matilda.

It isn't "childish" to have these fictional characters. You also aren't crazy. The stories—as I believe I've said—provides an escape to another land. You'll live another life...almost.

Children should read while their young. It gives them a friend to always be there even when they're alone. Which I guess mean they'll never truly be alone.

I believe, like in the quote, I've traveled everywhere in these stories. I've picked up magical friends, friends on an island, and enemies trying to kill. I've been rich and poor. A runaway and a princess. I've fallen in love multiple times, and watched friends die. All these 'trips' can make you laugh and smile, or angry and sad. My friends talk how I want them to. Some have squeaky high voices, and some have soothing deep voices.

Any book lovers will agree with me. They've been a thousands of journeys meeting many new people without even having to leave the house. For a kids imagination that's good enough (...or maybe an adults too. It makes for a satisfying night after work).