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First book you ever read?

Hmmm, I don't remember which of her books I read first, or how old I was when I read the first one, but when I was a little girl I absolutely loved anything by Marguerite Henry!
They were all stories about horses, and I just fell in love with her books from the first to the last.
I still have a few of them. ;)
 
SFG75 said:
Yeah, I can't remember what I read a couple of years ago.:eek:
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Whippersnapper! At least you're still thinking in terms of years! Some of us can't remember what we read last week;) Thus, we keep lists:cool:
 
It is so long ago that I can’t remember the first book I ever read. It was probably something by Enid Blyton. One book that sticks in my memory however was Wind on the Moon. Has anyone else read this book?

Eva:)
 
damn i have no clue. i got addicted to these valley girls junior or w/e it was called.. the series.. there was another series i really liked.. and with the babysitters club, i read the books about the younger sister..
 
Hatchet (garry paulson?) - ~4th grade
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ENDERS GAME!! Read it in 8th grade, and again in 9th grade, and again in 10th grade :) then i read all the enders shadow books :)
-'drag0?'
 
The first book i read and enjoyed outside all the school stuff was 'When the Lion Feeds' by Wilbur Smith, never looked back since
 
I'm sure I read something before this, but my first novel I read was a goosebump. The Headless Ghost I think.
 
The first book? Easy. I was about two. The book was The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Of course, I disagreed with a lot of things that the author said about being an influence to modern life.

I mean, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

ds
 
Grandpa in Oz I was probably about 4 or 5 maybe. But I also had the Bobbsey Twins series, the Cherry Ames series, the Nancy Drew series.....but by then I must have been about 7.
Books were all I ever got for any presents. :cool:

Oh, and if you can count the 'talking records' (after all this is back in the '50's), there was The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Robin Hood
 
I remember tons of books I read as a child, but not necessarily in the order I read them...

Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven series at about age 8... at 9 I read The Hobbit, I remember being in Mr Fenton's class, and he was my teacher at 8-9. I read a book about a house with ten children before that, can't remember the name... and Amelia Jane, Ramona Quimby, then Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley and Point Horror... before that I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and that remained my favourite book for years, and I read The Diary of Anne Frank.

And Judy Blume's stuff at age 8-9 too...

And a few classics, Greyfriars Bobby is excellent, and The Railway Children and Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty, and The Secret Garden. The Secret Garden was my first secondary school class book, age 11.
 
For me it must have been The Twits by Roald Dahl. It was all about Roald Dahl when I was a boy. Great author.
 
I remember when I first read by myself, I was sitting on the floor in my bedroom with a large oversize book, I think it was about the world or something, it had pictures too. I'd been staring at it, trying to read, and suddenly the words made sense. I think I was 4 or 5, it was before I went to kindergarten.
 
Either Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume or some Holocaust book. I didn't really begin to enjoy reading till about the 4th or 5th grade.
 
Spot goes to the Farm. :p (My mum tells me I would read the Spot books, over and over and over :eek: )

First book I read as a child, I can't remember. :confused: I read all the Famous Five, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and books by Judy Blume, so it was probably one of those.
 
If I can remember back far enough I know that the first book was a Famous Five one, which one it was I wouldn't know but I loved the whole series. Didn't they always have great meals in those stories, always managing to stumble upon a farmhouse with a table laden with food..:p

My first novel would have been Watership Down and I loved it and still have it, even though the pages are falling out and yellowed so might need a new copy to actually read it again..
 
The first one I can remember was A Wrinkle in Time. I think I was in the third grade. I'm sure I didn't get most of it.
The apocryphal story of my first reading took place in a public restroom with my grandfather when I started to read the grafitti on the walls (I was 3). Apparently, some of the first words I ever read were f*** you. Preparation for Palahniuk.
 
The first *real* book I ever read all by myself was a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book (at least, according to my mom). My second was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, followed closely by The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
 
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