Literature before Pre-K, What Did This Look Like?

 

When I was young my mother would read many stories to me. These are some of my favorite stories that I can remember reading numerous times with her as well as on my own. My mother and I would read the magic treehouse series because the books allowed me and my mother to imagine what the children were doing and sometimes we would add our own ideas after reading about what else the children could have done. I would think about what it would be like if I did these things as well. These stories opened my eyes to the ability to be imaginative while reading and enjoy reading because of this. 

The Rainbow Fish was always one of my favorite stories to read because I loved the reflective gills and thought the story was nice.  The story is about a fish who had reflective gills unlike everyone else and others wanted to share in their beauty, at first the fish was reluctant and not very willing to share, but then realizes everyone should be able to look like him as well. This story taught me about uniqueness and sharing. 

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed was a story that my brother, my mom and I would read quite frequently and my mother would joke about us being her little monkeys and it was just a cute fun story that we would read together before bed. 

 

Click Clack Moo Cows That Type was a story that my grandmother would read to me because when she was young she used a typewriter and her parents owned a print shop,  the cows in the story  find a typewriter and then proceed to use it and make demands. This book represents the power of communication alongside being a cute story about cows that can use a typewriter. I always enjoyed reading with my grandmother and this was one of my favorite books we read together. 

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly was a book that my mother would read to my brother and I as well, and my pre-school teacher read it to us as well. I liked the book because it was so wacky and funny and the Old Lady swallows a fly and tries to retrieve it with a spider and the whole story is a crazy sequence of events. 

Are You My Mother? Was also one of my favorite stories that I read with my brother and my grandmother, Are You My Mother? is a story about a hatchling bird. His mother, thinking her egg will stay in her nest where she left it, leaves her egg alone and flies off to find food. The baby bird hatches while the mother is away. The hatchling does not understand where his mother is so he goes to look for her and asks a dog if they are his mother and so on. I felt I could relate to this story when I was young because I would always get nervous if I was somewhere like the grocery store and could not find my mother. 

 

The image on the top right corner is of me, my brother, my mother and my grandmother in Disney. I could not find a picture of us reading together, but my mother and my grandmother both would always read stories to me and wanted to take me to Disney due to my love of Disney books and movies, as well as because Disney is so fun!

 

The picture on the bottom right corner is of me, my mother, my brother and my grandma and grandpa in Florida. My grandparents and my mother would always encourage me to read in my down time, on our flights, or any time that I could. My mother would also read me stories with my grandmother often before she passed away when I was in 8th grade.