Livre d'Or

I don't have a sense of what's a 'normal' age to start reading and what's unusually early. I'm also not sure actually how old I was, because my mum died years ago and that's not the sort of detail my dad remembers. I do know that I was frustrated when I started school that the older children got hymnbooks for Assembly but the first year infants were not expected to be able to read so didn't get books.

I know I skipped some levels of reading scheme books in the infant years of primary school, and I was in a fast/advanced readers group when I was 8ish, and got special dispensation in middle school (aged 9-13) to not write a whole page review of every book I read, because I was getting through a novel a day.