He told
AAYA,"I can't remember a time I wasn't in one way or another intrigued by words. My interest in story began with my interest in words--how they sounded, how they could capture, how they could describe, something. I was forever walking around with scraps of paper as soon as I could write anything at all, trying to come up with words to describe things I was seeing when we traveled as a family or when I was walking through the town I grew up in. If I couldn't come up with a word I knew, then I would just make one up." He recalled, too, an early love of reading. "There wasn't a time that I wasn't interested in reading also. As soon as I was able to read anything on my own I was poring over magazines, making up stories if I didn't know the words from the pictures I saw." When Talbert was a small child his mother read to him from Golden Books. Among his favorites were
The Brown Bunny and
The Little Engine That Could, as well as Margaret Wise Brown stories illustrated by Garth Williams.
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