Heritage Challenge No. 27 { books from your childhood }

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
~  Emilie Buchwald

Do you remember when you first began to love books?  Can you remember learning to read . . . going to the library . . . being read to?

I vividly remember sitting in my grandmother’s lap while she read Bible stories of baby Moses & baby Samuel aloud to me . . . I couldn’t have been more than three years old.  I remember too my mother bringing a new book home to me in a sack after she had been shopping.  And, I can almost smell the memories that I have of going to our tiny public library when I was probably four years old.  I know that each of you must have similar memories of the books that you loved as a child & maybe a story tied to those memories . . . so, for the heritage challenge this week you can travel back in time and love those books all over again.

Merrilee { digigrandma } has a book shelf in her home where she can visit her old favorites . . . and some of those are the books that she loved as a child.  I love that the photograph in Merr’s layout is a stack of those very books!  Check out Merr’s “From My Book Shelf” and see for yourself!

Merr’s supplies: Scrap Express no. 51,  Petite Botanicals No. 04,  Petite Botanicals No. 02,  Indigo Paper Pack,  Indigo Solids Paper Pack,  Library Card Collection: Botanicals No. 01,  Paper Textures No. 01 Brush Set,  Buttoned Up Vintage &  Calligraphic Brushes { coming soon }.

I really do love what Mel { Britgirl } has done with the layout that she created with the books that she loved as a child too.  Some of Mel’s favorites were mine as well . . . and some of Mel’s are some I am not familiar with.  Isn’t it fun to find old friends & make new friends through books?  You are going to love “this one, and all the ones you haven’t read yet . . .” from Mel.

Mel’s supplies:  Reader Brushes and Stamps,  Worn Photo Edges No. 03, From My Bookshelf Element Packbook,  All Set Alpha No. 02 (coming soon),  Clipper Paper Pack,  Vintage Journal Spots No. 02,  Krafty Bits Alphabet,  Recollections: Book Covers,    Vintage Journals No. 02,  Vintage Journals No. 03 & Vintage Journals.

Paula { PaulaSG }  said that she got a bit carried away, but I must disagree . . . I think that Paula was transported back to the books that she loved as a child!  You are going to just love Paula’s journaling in her fab layout “read”.

Paula’s supplies:  From My Bookshelf No. 01 Kit, Spring Candy Solid Paper Pack,  Stamped Blocks No. 13 Brushes and Stamps &  Stuffed Edge Documents No. 01.

I enjoyed reading Aino’s journaling so much . . . I can just visualize a small Aino alphabetizing her books and pretending that she was a librarian.  And, I love that Aino, who grew up in Norway remembers when she learned to read in English and could then read English books as well as the ones in her native tongue.  This layout “Read”, will go into a book that Aino is compiling of childhood memories.

Aino’s supplies:  Roughed Up Maps Paper Pack,  Purely Happy Paper Pack,  Roughed Up Notebook Paper Pack No. 02,  Ribbon Frames,  Torn Ends Photo Masks &  All Set Alphabet No. 02 (coming soon).

Anke’s layout “Reading is an Adventure”  is all about one series of books from her childhood that she loved so much that she as found copies of them on ebay for her children to read!  These are the same books that Paula & Mel loved . . .  I am going to seek them out through the internet for my grandchildren . . . and perhaps I’ll read them myself too.

Anke’s supplies:  Abstract Fotoblendz #1, ArtPlay Sting and Bite, Adventure WordART No. 01,  ArtPlay Palette MiniKit No. 10,  ArtPlay Palette Obsession No. 01 ValueSet,  ArtPlay Palette No. 12 ValueSet,  ArtPlay Palette MiniKit No. 11,  ArtPlay Palette Mermaids MiniKit & Hinged Photo Frames No. 03.

Steph, Lynnie & I hope that you will draw inspiration from Merrilee, Mel, Paula, Aino & Anke this week for Heritage Challenge No. 27.  We would love to see your “Childhood Books” pages in the Heritage Gallery here at Designer Digitals.  Now, I am off to post my layout about the “books in my childhood” in the Heritage Gallery too!