Is this four book thing for real? My niece (aged three & three-quarters) has a couple of dozen books already, & she'd be the least booked-up in the family. (She even has a book about litle rabbit Frou-Frou, & she DEFINATELY doesn't want to turned into a gooney)

I mean there's usually more than four books in the SERIES if you read people like Douglas Adams, David Eddings, David Gemmel, Terry Goodkind, JRR Tolkien, Robert Jordan, (can't remember who wrote Thos. Covenant), Frank Herbert. Then there's sci-fi, espionage, crime, adventure, before you even get to "serious" books.

Personally, I grew out of Enid Blyton quite young, but used to read Richmal Comptons "William" Books to my kid sister 'cos it gave me an excuse to read 'em when I felt I was too old. (She had a lisp & could do a really good Violet Elizabet "I'll thream & thream & thream util I'm Thick") Then ther was Biggles, Hardy boys, etc. Oh, and anything about being stranded on desert Islands. Don't know why. But FOUR BOOKS?? ...Just thinking about having only four books, I'm starting to shiver, skin is getting clammy, cold sweat...............