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remember your first chapter book?

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jenn

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i have started buying books for my kids that i loved as a kid. they are still at the age where eating them is as good as reading them, but i have high hopes for the future. i remember charlotte's web was my first chapter book that i read, alone, that did not have pictures. i was so impressed with myself. and i was also inconsoloble(sp?) for days after charlotte died.
what is your first memory of reading a book that would be considered a novel (childrens) and what were your impressions?
 
jenngorham said:
i remember charlotte's web was my first chapter book that i read, alone, that did not have pictures. . . . what is your first memory of reading a book that would be considered a novel (childrens) and what were your impressions?
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As I remember it, mine was an E.B. White, too--The Trumpet of the Swan. I fell in love with Louis, the jazz-playing mute swan who took taxicabs.
 
Aww...what sweet memories! I remember the first "real" book I read. It's still a children's book, but it's 178 pages long, so that was pretty significant for a 10-year-old girl! Sadly, I don't remember much about the book (Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner), except that it was really fun to read - it was a sort of adventure. I guess that's the first time I was "transported" to another place without having to leave the comfort of my home. Now I'm addicted to "traveling" through books! :)
 
I think the first real book I read was by Dennis Jürgensen about a group of friendly mosters, a Vampire, werewolf, mummy, a burping dragon and their human friend. Thats about all I remember about them except that those books where very funny.
 
Hoho, mine is...

The Frog Prince in Classic Fairy Tale :p
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Aaack! I can't remember my first! :eek:

It seems I went from reading those Golden books with lots of pictures to everything I could get my hands on, including chapter books. The ones that stand out are Pippylongstockings and Heidi.
 
Mine would be an Enid Blyton book - Shadow the Sheepdog. I still love this book and will read it nostalgically now and then.
 
did any of you read kid lit that was geared towards the oppposite sex? ie: little jonny reading little women, or little susie reading the hardy boys? i have 2 boys, yet have accumulated a lot of more feminine reading.(not that there is anything wrong with that, just curious if the interest was there to read about jo and beth at age 8 when you are a boy)
 
My first chapter book was most likely one of the Bobsey Twins mysteries. Ring a bell, Brits? My older sister had the whole set.
 
Erm... maybe Endyth Blyton or Ronald Dahl. I tried to gt through The Boy in year four but foud it a bit hard going. But the first book that I remember that I LOVED was Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones when I was in nine, year four.
 
Madeleine, I loved the Bobbsey Twins. I didn't think anyone read them anymore. I went through a period where I read every series-type books I could find - Sue Barton, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc.
 
The Hardy Boys was probably the first, but I read so many books when I was young that I can barely remember these days :(

Phil
 
As I remember it, mine was an E.B. White, too--The Trumpet of the Swan. I fell in love with Louis, the jazz-playing mute swan who took taxicabs


Mine was also Trumpet of The Swan- I loved that book- I still do. What's not to love about a swan who goes to school?
 
novella said:
As I remember it, mine was an E.B. White, too--The Trumpet of the Swan. I fell in love with Louis, the jazz-playing mute swan who took taxicabs.
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sorry didn't know how to do that quote thing. :confused:
 
Gosh, if only my memory was that good. Sadly, it isn't, but as I recall one of the first things I was blown away by as a kid was "Danny The Champion Of The World". Whether this was my first chapter book or not, I have no idea, but it obviously left a big impression on me; I still remember little intricacies of the plot now in my 30s.

I had a big collection of Enid Blyton too, so one of those was probably a pretty early read. Maybe Amelia Jane, or something similar. I also avidly read the St Clares/Malory Towers school series, (queueing up with my pocket money in Woolworths each time I finished one and needed the next in the series!) and I remember thinking that although I could relate to these kids, they were quite a bit older than me. So I probably would have been younger than 10-ish when I started on those.
 
I started reading chapter books when I was... 7 or 8 I believe. The Faraway Tree, and then the Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton. Around that time I also read Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Secret Garden, What Katy Did (etc), and I believe a series of books that I can't really remember called My Best Fiend. I'm sure there were more. I know I read Charlotte's web at some point.

Then I did the series thing when I was 10, 11 and 12. Especially horse books.
 
I wish I remembered my first! But that was too long ago. I do remember reading a lot of Nancy Drew and Beverly Cleary though.
 
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

I started reading the series when I was seven and I read them all at least once.
 
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