Childhood Book

When I was a little girl my mom and I would always sit down and read a book at night and while she pushed me to start reading more chapter books all I ever wanted to read was “The Big Green Pocketbook”. The main concept of the book is a little girl spending a day with her mother in their hometown. As they travel from place to place, running errands, the girl picks up little trinkets at each stop and puts them into her big green pocketbook. By the end of the day she has collected enough things to fill up her bag and she now has a pocketbook full of memories from her day with her mom. However, on the bus ride home she forgets her bag on the bus and she gets upset because all of her memories from that day were in the pocketbook. In the end, the bus driver returns her pocketbook to her house and the little girl is able to regain all of her memories from her wonderful day with her mom. When I look back on when I read this book with my mom the part I remember the most is the smell and other sensory details. When the little girl in the book would go into the bank with her mom, I remember the pages smelling exactly as a bank would smell. I also remember thinking that the little girl in the book was just like me. I would always run errands with my mom when I was little and after reading this book with her I would always pretend to be this little girl and go around collecting little things from around town to put in my bag, but luckily I didn’t forget it on the bus. I think I loved this book so much because it was so realistic and I could put myself in the character’s shoes. Now when I go back and read this book I am able to focus more on the imagery and detail that the author puts into the story. This is because now that I’m older, and have moved past relating myself to the character, I’m able to see how each place is described and depicted rather than just look at the pictures to see what I should be doing to make my day just like hers. The author was very through in describing each scene so that it was a realistic setting that both the kids reading it would be able to understand and also the adult would be able to relate to.