Baby Ray has a dog
Friday, June 20, 2014
My headline sounds odd, doesn't it? Who is Baby Ray and why do you need to know anything about him? My answer is, he was very important to me in my preschool years. My mother taught me to read before I went to kindergarten. She used "The Child's World Primer" published by the Johnson Publishing Company in 1917. Obviously this was not a first edition since I am not quite that old. But it is an important first for me. The first words I learned to read were, "Baby Ray has a dog." I could almost recite the whole book today, including some poems which were meant to be memorized.