If You Give A Muffin Analysis

As a small child, I can recall sitting in my bed late at night, a blanket tossed over my head and a flashlight in one hand. The other worked hastily to trace and outline the words, as my eyes moved over shapes and symbols which I couldn’t yet read, but knew so well. I knew the story by heart, and so it wasn’t hard to repeat the words of the story in my head as though I was actually reading it. If You Give a Moose a Muffin, by Laura Numeroff, was the book that held my attention so well. At that time, I would have been up hours past my bedtime; thus, my parents would confiscate my flashlight and books for the night more often than not. Despite this, it was this book which set the stage and lit the path to growth and a love for literature.
My brother never was, and still isn’t, very fond of reading. For this reason, most of these books were simple comics forced upon him by his teachers and then left to collect dust in my mother’s room. As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I would eagerly breeze through these books, Captain Underpants, and Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot, were two which I favored because they kept going. I had a much longer period of time to spend with the characters that I would grow so fond of, and more adventures of theirs to observe and enjoy. Some words I struggled with, and would write down on the back of my hand so that I could look them up later at school, but nonetheless I was ahead of my grade and already excelled at reading simple passages. This of course, enhanced and nurtured my vocabulary as well as gave me reason to begin reading longer and more literate books. Soon, I was nearly two grades ahead of my class in English and excelled at reading and writing, but insisted nonetheless that I continue reading the books which I quickly outgrew. This trend continued up until we began keeping a reading log in the third