5-year-old Girl Read 36 Books in 105 Minutes
She is barely five but Indian-American Kiara Kaur has already won international acclaim for reading 36 books nonstop for over an hour.
Indian-American Kiara Kaur lives in the UAE. She is only 5 years old but she has won 36 books in 105 minutes. Many of the stories, the little girl read to set the record are level 3 or 4 books, meant for older children. Because of her speed in reading books, Her name has been entered in the “World Book of Records’ in London and Asia Book of Records. She achieved this on 13th February. Baby Kiara's passion for reading was spotted by one of her teachers at a nursery school in Abu Dhabi that she attended for a few months last year before it shut down due to the lockdown. Baby Kiara told NDTV, “"I love to read because I like to see the colourful pictures in the book. And they are written big so I can read the words easily."
Her favourites include Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Shooting Star. Kiara, her parents say, spends most of her time reading. Over the last one year, she has read around two hundred books. Her dentist mother Dr Little Mahendra said, “We did not force her to read to achieve the record. She used to read all the time, while in the car, even in the rest room and before going to bed. We had to get her books every time we went go shopping,"
