I'm surprised that nobody here has mentioned RA Montgomery yet. Very sad. The man basically did more than anyone else, except my father, to instill a love of reading at a very early age. One of the unsung literary greats.
RA, you teach millions of children to think, reason and love to explore and learn. You pass way loved by more folks than you can ever know. THE END
True that! RIP. His books are how I became interested in both Sci-Fi fiction and gaming...
ReplyDeleteI tip my hat to Mr. Montgomery. Him and my mom were the ones who got me started to want to read. My mom bought me "Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey" Choose Your Own Adventure back in the early 1980s. I hated reading before that book. Since then I have loved reading. All it takes for a child to read is to find a book about what the child is interested in and they will continue to read from then on (be it comic books, choose your way books, fairy tales, hobbies, roleplaying games, etc...).
ReplyDelete"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." (John 14:1-3)
"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
Yes. It's very sad that he passed. RIP.
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