If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Essay

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Growing up in a very strict household meant that I read a lot in my free time. During those times I would read books like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie By Laura Joffe Numeroff, Clifford By Norman Bridwell and of course Junie B. Jones series By Barbara Park. I remember back in Kindergarten when I first walked into class and my teacher Mrs. Williamson read us the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. After she read us the book she asked each of us to go to our desk and write what we understood from the story and I wrote: “I learned not to ask for more.” As I look back at that memory I realize that I till this day remember. Clifford growing up was just one of those books that you needed to have read to be considered “in”. It was that one book …show more content…

The books that shaped my Middle School reading collection would have to be The Hush Hush series By Becca Fitzpatrick, The Selection By Kiera Cass and Shatter Me By Tahereh Mafi. Some of these books were in my school library whereas some weren’t which made finding books that I liked sort of difficult, but it takes time and research. The first book I read that lead me to believe that paranormal/ fantasy romance books were for me was Hush Hush. Once I was finished reading that book I had this hunger or craving for more and luckily this was a series. After the series was finished I realized that this is how reading a book should feel. It should make you want more and read others like that. The next day I walked up to the search bar in the computer and searched up fantasy romance. Up came the series that I will to this day forever call my favorite book of all times, The Selection by Kiera Cass. While reading this book I felt awe, shock, suspense, anger, betrayal and all these other emotions that an extremely good book should make you feel. This book is such a staple in my ideal bookshelf that I have read it three

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