When I was really young my parents would read all sorts of Disney books for kids and then went on to the Eric Carle books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider, and the Very Lonely Firefly. My parents both read to me very often at nights sitting on the couch before bed, I enjoyed that more then laying in bed. I did a lot of reading at First Wesleyan-starting in Pre-K with Ms. Lawing and then Mrs. Lynn in Kindergarten, I look up to both of those teacher to this day.
I am not sure of my favorite books-my guess would be one of the Eric Carle books. I feel like I enjoyed being read to over me reading on my own. When I was at First Wesleyan the attitude was more "read as many pages as you can" which really did not make me enjoy reading. At that point, they were more concerned with sounding out words and being able to read and pronounce things correctly. There was very little emphasis placed on comprehension and understanding what you were reading so that did not make it much fun for me. By the time my brother hit kindergarten, they were at the stage of less words and more pictures with answers at the end which made him enjoy it a lot more.
As far as a book making a difference in my life, I would have to say all the readings I did in the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul were wonderful. I also really enjoyed reading Night about the Holocaust and a few others through out high school. And yes, now I do enjoy reading for pleasure, I am currently reading Love the One Your With.
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I was obsessed with the chicked soup books. I am pretty sure I have all of the books that were written.
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