I loved to read as a child, but around age 7 or 8 I developed a strong dislike of "stories". As a result I had an amazing collection of children's non-fiction: science, history, biographies, etc. Among my favorites were a book about the first moon landing and a biography of Marie Curie.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong