Getting into Fantasy
I love fantasy! It is by far my favorite genre to read personally and by no coincidence. My father read The Hobbit aloud to me when I was about five years old and I still remember the feeling of my imagination being sparked by the scale of the adventure that Bilbo and the dwarves go on from Hobbiton to the Lonely Mountain and back. I also loved fairy tales as a child, no doubt spurred on by the resurgence of the excellent Disney movies of the '90s. I always had trouble deciding if I wanted to dress up as Belle, Ariel or Jasmine. To me, fairytales and fantasy go hand in hand. It’s likely quite obvious by now why I picked the name The Book Dragon for my blog. So when I started reading some short chapter books aloud to my daughter a few years ago, I gravitated towards the fairy tales and fantasy stories I had loved as a child. We are currently about half way through The Hobbit, a lovely new illustrated version with pictures by Jemima Catlin. I’ve read her the first few Harry Potter b