Leanna McAfee

I discovered early that learning to read was important. After I began learning to read, I would read comics to my paternal grandmother from the newspaper. She would make everyone hush so that she could listen to me read. She loved listening to me reading aloud. I loved reading and would spend hours with books. There were some books that I was sad that I reached the end. I wanted to know what happened next.

My dad was a story teller. He could tell stories with an ease that was amazing. He would make up stories to tell his grand children every time that he was with them. One that I remember was about Goldilocks going mud bogging with the three bears. It has been so long since I heard those stories that I can't remember the details, but I do remember that the stories were always a learning experience.

I hope that my stories allow my readers to travel with the characters in their journey in learning to read.