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This was the first book I ever remember reading and being read to me as a child. This was my mothers favorite book and it is still very precious to me to this day. There was a cartoon movie also made of this book which helped me memorize this book early on.
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This book was the first book I remember choosing to read on my own in my Kindergarten class and I was fascinated with all the colors, patterns and quarkey aspects of the story. I also loved the fact that the moral of this book was to enjoy being different.
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In second grade I started this book series and it showed me that books were fun and silly and it became a goal to read every book in the series. This was my hobby in second grade and helped me make friends who also liked these books.
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During fourth grade we had an optional "Read Across America" assignment where we had to read 50 books and when we finished we got a ribbon and I used 51 goosebump books to complete this and was so proud of myself and fell in love with horror stories and still enjoy them to this day.
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This was the first chapter book series I ever completed and they helped shape the way I read books because there was a lot of information I struggled with and it made me realize I needed to become better at understanding grammar to understand these books better so I would highlight whatever I did not understand and it really shaped the way I read books from there on out.
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This saga only had two books at the time I read them and I became obsessed and even waited at line at a bookstore to meet the author which felt like meeting a celebrity. This was also the first book I expressed extreme emotions too like crying and it even would effect me so deeply I would become depressed for periods of a time after reading which showed me that books can shape my attitude and perspective on life.
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This was the first book I read multiple times during high school because it portrayed a young girls experience with sex, drugs and profanity in the 1970's and it has stayed with me throughout my life and kept me away from hard drugs to this day.
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This was the first book in I was required to read and analyze for my literacy class in college and it happened to include a girl losing her mother which I related to because that year my mother died and that book helped me get through that first semester back and I rediscovered my love for books which I had lost for a long time.
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I read this book last year and it was eye-opening and is a book that I wish I had read early in my schooling because a lot of people can learn from Melody who is a young girl with cerebral palsy who is a genius but is trapped with no ability to speak so she suffers for a very long time and has taught me that a disability does not define a person and ultimately shaped how I will view my future students with or without disabilities.
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This is a textbook for my developmental psychology class for infancy and childhood and it has been the most helpful book I have read this year because it discusses prenatal development to later teen years and since I am currently pregnant all this information is interesting and beneficial to me and I make sure to read thoroughly which has also helped me be successful in the class.
