But then Ozma determinedly upped the ante to 1,000 as their readings graduated from James and the Giant Peach to Shakespeare and Harry Potter. Ozma’s father, a firm believer in the limitless power of books, was overjoyed (and pleasantly surprised) when they’d achieved their initial goal of 100 nights. Dubbed “The Streak,” it began when the author was in third grade and lasted 3,218 nights. In 1997, plucky, headstrong Ozma and her father, an elementary-school librarian, began reading aloud to each other for 1,000 consecutive nights. Frank Baum’s Oz series-illustrates her profound passion for reading bookshelves of literature from childhood to well into adolescence. The author’s name-an amalgam of characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and L. Reading really was fundamental for a father and daughter team who made it their nightly ritual for eight straight years.
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