The Beginning

The first literacy event I can remember was when my dad would read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to me when I was little. He told me that he began reading the books to me because the main character's name was the same as mine. I remember reading many of the books with him every night as I grew up. It was kind of strange because I identified so deeply with the little girl named Laura in the book. Whenever I imagined the father in the book I would picture my dad, and the events in the stories seemed as though I were experiencing them for myself as they were being read to me.