Meet 4 Year old Girl Who has Read 1000 Books!

Daliyah Marie Arana, a 4-year-old girl has been given a chance to be ‘Librarian for the Day’ at Library of Congress after she successfully read 1,000 books.

Washington Post reports that the star kid, from Gainesville, Georgia, with a voracious appetite for reading, achieved the feat at such a young age, and has since been celebrated by her peers and adults too.

When she visited the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., she was subsequently named “Librarian For The Day.”

Before she was even born, her parents say, she was learning how to read.

Haleema Arana, the super reader’s mum said that she and her husband, Miguel started reading to Daliyah ‘right when she was born’. While she was pregnant with Daliyah, her mother would read books to her other young children on a daily basis.

Young Daliyah became hooked on reading after she started recognising words at just 18 months old. She now enjoys books written for university students and only needs help if she gets stuck on a ‘big’ word, her parents say.

When Daliyah was an infant, she would hear her older brother reading chapters of books out loud.

”We would literally read every day, about 15 to 20 minutes a day. By the time she was 18, 19 months, we realized she could recognize a lot of the words. And we kind of took it from there.”

At age three, Daliyah had started reading books on her own. Daliyah’s mother said that her daughter joined Georgia’s ‘1,000 Books Before Kindergarten,’ almost two years ago and started paving her way through books.

”She was about 2 1/2 when we signed her up for it. Most of the kids she graduated the program with were a little bit older.”

Daliyah’s proud parents wrote to Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, about their daughter’s achievement and Hayden was so impressed that she invited Daliyah for a tour last week and to serve as ‘Librarian for the Day’.

The smart little girl roamed the hallways with Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, who tweeted photos of the girl sitting in her desk.

”She just kept saying how the Library of Congress is her most favorite, favorite, favorite library in the whole wide world,” Haleema said.

She hopes to have read 1,500 by the time she starts kindergarten this autumn and wants to encourage other children to read.

Photo credit: Shawn Miller