Title: Storybook
Fandom: Wide Range Readers
Length: 100
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: UK readers of a certain age may recognize this book series




Two children and a dog dancing over a hill, royal blue silhouettes against a pale blue sky. Clouds and birds in the sky, and paler blue hills in the background. Above the clouds, in white letters on blue, the legend THE WIDE RANGE READERS. Below, in a kind of cloud inside the hill, the words BLUE BOOK 1. Inside, the first story I ever read by myself, about a mouse eating strawberry jam. It feels right that the memory of reading is linked with sweetness, and with joy. I went dancing into the world those books opened up for me.