Literary Development Essay

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Literary Development “If you gave a mouse a cookie, he would ask for a glass of milk” (Numeroff 1,2). This sentence was the first great accomplishment within my literary development. This is the first sentence in one of the greatest children’s book of my time, If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. I was so excited, I was the happiest six year old, and it was because of reading. This is sadly one of the last times I can remember getting excited about reading. Once the books I read lost their pictures, they also lost my interest, and I never enjoyed reading as much as I used to. My literary development started just as Eudora Welty’s did. In her essay “Listening” she discusses her love of reading and how it shaped her into a writer. I shared the same love of reading with Welty. My love of reading focused more on my love of illustration, but Welty’s strictly focused on her love of words. Unlike Welty, as I grew up I did not search for more challenging books. I looked for more exciting stories that had pictures. Just like Welty, when she was younger, I always had a book in my hands. I would read anywhere and everywhere. I used to set up all my stuffed animals and dolls on my bed and read to them. Every book I read had to have pictures, or else I would not read it. Sometimes I would read the book by the pictures, instead of the words. I loved making up my own stories, even though I could very easily have read the books. I also used to read to my parents and younger brother as well. I pretended I was the teacher and they were my students. I would read the sentences and then show them the pictures. Reading was fun for me when I was younger. Whether I was reading alone or to others, I could not get enough of it. The best part was that we had tons of books around the house. We had books in the study, our basement, and in our rooms. Once I got older
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