Reading 6 Reading Books

Do you like to travel to interesting places? Do you like to learn about new ideas? Well, you can do all these things without leaving your home. How can you do this? By reading books! A good book is like a good friend. It can make you feel great, take you places you have never been, and help you discover things you do not know. Sometimes I like to read books so that I can enter a different world. When I read a story, my mind gets lost in the story. I think that I am part of it. I picture what the people in the book look like, what they are wearing, and what kind of houses they have. In a good book, I can travel in my mind to different countries or special worlds. The writer's words help me make pictures in my mind, like my own special movie. I can "see" what is happening on each page and discover things I did not know. Other times I like to read books to learn facts. Did you know that an animal can run faster than a car over short distances? Or that about three-and-a-half people are born in the world each second? These are the types of facts that I can learn from books. I can also learn about history by reading books. This is how I learned who was the first president of the United States and which is the oldest country in the world. I can also learn about famous people's lives by reading books about them. Whether you like stories or facts, there are books for you. Go to a library, visit a bookstore, or look on the Internet. It will not take long for you to get lost in the pages of an interesting book.