I Think I've Read That One

I will read them in the rain And in the dark and on a train And in the car and in a tree They are so good, so good you see! Green Eggs and Ham was the 1st book for me “Would you like to read about a game’ My mother said ‘with a funny name?” Quidditch! There’s soring brooms and flying balls It’s played at a school with wizard filled halls Harry Potter, those books had it all To find Dinosaurs Before Dark An eager reader must embark To a house in tree, which one could say Has reading magic in its own special way The Magic Tree House books all named a time of day Now a story of chariots and spears and shields And the awesome powers the gods did wield Armies and heroes and that well known crusader Achilles, the famous Myrmidon raider The Iliad read, not bad for a fourth grader Then came the series, those I liked best The Edge Chronicles, Charlie Bone, and Deltora Quest The Rangers Apprentice and Lord of the Rings Over 65 books about dragons with wings Glorious books, one can get quite engulfed in these things So, a Lion, a Witch, and four kids all walk into a wardrobe Such tales I wished to read with an ivory pipe and a bathrobe Many times I’ve read every chronicle in this septet At least six times each is accurate I bet The Chronicles of Narnia are books that I will never forget A pair of classics, a book in each hand One an adventure in a mirror, a trip to Wonderland The other taught the lesson Know Thyself I’m quite proud to say Sun Tzu sits on my shelf Alice in Wonderland and the Art of War are both great books for mental health Books of past wars, future wars, the wars of today Wars that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away The Hunger Games, time traveling Nazis, and WWI with some tweaks Training assassins, the Roman legion, I could read these stories for weeks Another book, another story, is all that one like me seeks Islam, Christian, and Hindu describe this Indian kid He was lost at sea with a tiger, but survive he did In this book there are lots of things that die Is it a true story? Nope, it’s a lie This symbol filled book, Life of Pi Midway upon the road of high school life I found myself in a dark book An Italian’s version of punishment, into the depths of Hell, a look Some people don’t understand all the thees and thous and cantos It just comes naturally to me, absurd sounding, I know But one of my favorite books has to be Dante’s Inferno I cannot say every character I have loved, and this makes me sad Jack, Aleksi, Bartimaeus, Artemis, Tavi, Ender, and Vlad Books have made me who I am, shaped me as you see There’s nothing I like better than just a single good book and me And for the rest of my life, a book reader, I shall always be