A favorite book from my childhood in Burma - Minn of the Mississipi, by Holling Clancy Holling -

http://www.amazon.com/Minn-Mississippi-Holling-C/dp/0395273994#reader_0395273994 A Newberry Prize winner - but I did not know it then. My father U Kaung must have bought it for me. I do not remember when I learned to read. It might have been at age 7 or 8. Kyi May Kaung

Some of my books - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung