Superman and Me and My First Memory (of Librarians)

In “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie explains how he started to read and why it was so important to him. In the poem “My First Memory (of Librarians),” Nikki Giovanni expresses the important place books have in her childhood memories.

Write about your own experience with books and reading whether that experience is positive or negative. You might describe learning how to read, facing a difficult assignment, discovering a great book, and so on. Finish by explaining why reading is important to you or why it is not.