One little girl, not knowing how to read
Sitting in class with a book on her knee
Blinking and pointing and gazing at pictures
One chubby finger guiding over black printing
Not one effort to be made to read the pages
To know and to love and adventure with words
To fall in and out of love with characters lost in pages
No cares in the world as to what might happen
Wondering simply over toys and the next cartoon session
Not one single thought on the little black print
Thinking instead about the world moving around it.
This is a good description of a little girl concerned with anything else but what's on the pages, but still pretending to be engrossed in a book.
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