Children raised with books are more likely to be adult readers. Share a childhood book memory!
Children raised with books are more likely to be adult readers.
Share a childhood book memory!
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Buying and reading books to my daughter, i hope she loves reading like me 🙂
Reading with my mom, not able to read in my head yet. I didn’t know how to say Cinderelly but once she told me I was going to impress her by remembering how to say it. But it never came up in the book again
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume. I pretty much read Judy Blume and then got involved in V.C. Andrews.
It’s more a reading memory than a book memory, but my grandpa used to go out for a run every morning before work…like, we’re talking 2 AM here…and from the time I was one or two, I’d sneak out of my bedroom and sit on the couch to wait for him to get back. He’d make us some coffee when he got back…mine was more milk and sugar than coffee, but I still had actual coffee in my cup…and then he’d read me the comics in the paper before he started on the rest of the paper, and I’d try to read the comics myself until he left for work, then I’d go back to bed.
Agree. I read to my daughter from the day I took her home from the hospital, when I gave her her feedings. As she got older our night time retail was bedtime stories. We still talk about the time she asked me to READ her Sherlock Holmes. YES, she did FOR bedtime story… Well, my daughter always liked a good mystery. She has a B.S. in Criminal justice and Criminology. AND she is a reader also.
My dad used to read to me every night until I was much too old to be read to. I was an only child, so books were my companion a lot of the time.
Rosie’s Walk… no words in the book at all. I just loved it, and so did my children. Laughed and laughed.
My daughter is 2, I have read to her since day one, we go to the library every week and I’m constantly buying her books. I’ll be so upset if she doesn’t grow up to like reading! Our favourites are owl babies, dogger, Elmer, kipper.. all the classics I grew up reading ❤️
As a kid I didn’t read much other than in school but I did like the Hungary caterpillar ?
Exchanging books with my dad. When he finishes a reader’s digest condensed book he lets me read it and we talk about it, vice versa.
My dad would always buy us books, take us to the library and read bed-time stories to us.
We lived in the U.K. when the Harry Potter books started coming out and my mom used to read them to my sister and I. Lifelong Harry Potter fan.
I remember lying beside my mom in their King size waterbed and her reading the Little House books to me. She read them all to me in order.
Grew up on Seuss and plenty of others. The characters- silly and fun.
My Dad and also my Aunt always bought me books when I was young My mother read to me when I was young and As soon as I could on my own I went to the library
When I was young my mom or dad read me bedtime stories every day, even when I was in hospital. I didn’t know how to read, but I could tell one story just like it was written in my book ❤ after 20 years I still know all the words, but I didn’t read that book at least 10 years. 🙂
Heidi
Little House on the Prairie
My stepmother gave me my first book of my very own when I was about 6 or 7 and I’ve had a book in my hand ever since. She expanded my world through the gift of reading.
My parents never read to me or bought me books so I really treasured the school library. I have fond memories of reading Five To To Mystery Moor in particular. I always read loads to my son, every night at bedtime. He did not grow up to like reading. ?
James and the Giant Peach… the first “older kids” book I ever read, and I did it in one sitting!!
Pet Semetary in 7th grade lmao
Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden
I remember going to bed with piles of books….of course I’d fall asleep after only one and then my parents knew I was sleeping when they heard me finally kick them all off of the bed ?
Oh Enid Blyton was my go-to for reading. Loved the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Mallory Towers and all the other wonderful books she wrote!
Rainbow fish and stellaluna
The Bobbsey Twins
My grandpa used to read me when u give a mouse a cookie every time he would flip the page he would lick his fingers to keep the pages from sticking I don’t know why but I’ll never forget that it was something I looked forward to every night. To this day it’s my favorite children’s book
Little Women.
Walking to the Library and reading something new.
The book that made me fall in love with reading was Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Black Beauty
Heidi and Anne of Green Gables.
Tje berinenstein bears
The Secret Garden
Velveteen rabbit
When I was in the fourth grade we had a book fair in school. We had them every year, but we were very poor and I never could afford to purchase one. This particular year, my mother gave me the money to purchase Little House on the Prairie. I was so excited!
I have the memory of being very young, sitting on my mom or dad’s lap, and having golden books read to me. I loved those golden books and still have a few from my childhood.
Nancy Drew
Are you there God it’s me Margaret
Fliowers for Algernon
Flowers in the Attic
So so many more
Fog Magic
Just got my son Henry Huggins!
All of Enid Blyton’s series…
Betsy and Tacy books!?
My sister jenny Hayes reading stories to me gave me my love for reading
I started in first grade with The Bobsey Twins – the whole series, of course! Been reading ever since!
So many good ones…
I remember reading the entire Boxcar Children series, then the Trixie Belden series as a little girl. ?
Library summer reading. My grade school participated instead of recommended reading, even after I was too old (8th grade). I would tell a librarian about the books I read, and would get a sticker for the bulletin board. Sometimes I would also earn prizes like free books.
I grew up watching my mother read. My local library was just a couple of doors down from where I lived as a child, and I practically lived there. I tell people that if I ever reach a point where I can’t read anymore, please shoot me and put me out of my misery.
i loved charlotte’s web. when i was very small i had several little golden books i read.
Teaching my cousin to read, i was roughly 8, he was 6!! I taught him how to read Cinderella!! I swear, to this day, he wouldn’t be able to read if it wasn’t for me!!
One summer my dad and I had a contest to see who could read the most books before school started again. Mind you my dad was an uber fast reader. I read something like 35 books that summer. My dad read more but he said he didn’t. I think I was 10.
The first story that moved me internally was “Cinnabar the One O’clock Fox”. I could feel his excitement, taste his grapes, and felt the love he had for his fox family. I read it at age 9 and re-read it sometimes.
My daughter also, many a time.
My mom would alway read my little brother and I two books at bed time. We took turns on whose night it was to choose. She was pretty strict that it was two. Then she started reading us chapter books, the first one was Jack London’s White Fang. We loved it! From there she read many other books to us. She finally stopped reading to us when I was about 12 because I wanted to read my own books.
Nancy Drew, Babysitters club, Berenstain Bears, Little Bear, Dear America, Winnie the Pooh, and so many more.
My dad read to us the graphical Bible stories book. I think that explained why I was the champion in Bible quizzes at my sunday school.
One of the first books I remember reading was a book called “The Enormous Egg” about a boy who hatched a dinosaur.
I can’t remember specific books just that I read everything I could lay my hands on
Mom read to me everyday from the time I was a baby. Some books I remember her reading regularly were Paddington Bear and two books I am almost sure I am the only one who remembers…Arthur the Anteater and Dorrie the Little Witch books. I loved Dorrie!! After a while, I could recite the beginning phrases of the books(they all started the same)along with my mother. I think this why I started reading so early.
My first read.. secret garden…it made me fall in love with reading
Reading The Outsiders in 6th grade. I fell in love with the book and it’s still one of my favorites.
Stay gold.
Our motivation for learning how to read was getting our first library card. I wanted mine so badly, I recited ‘Goodnight Moon’ and flipped the pages at the correct spots trying to convince my mom I was reading it. ?
We had to prove we knew our address and could sign our name. I practiced and practiced until I had vivid dreams about a dog reciting my zip code.
@Tammy that’s a unique dream!
I do this, too.
Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
Trying to explain to my dad that I couldn’t read a story in an encyclopedia because it “was a big book” and I could only read “little books” it took him ages to persuade me to try, when I eventually did I was so pleased with myself and told anyone I saw. The story was The Fox And The Grapes- Aesop.
As a little girl, my auntie and I would go to Ventura to visit my cousin and her family. I would always make sure to visit my cousin’s bookcase because to read snippets of Frida Kahlo’s biography. Somehow, no one ever caught me. It fueled my love for Frida Kahlo. When I entered the 9th grade, I borrowed the biography from the library and read it entirely.
I still have this book in the attic.
My daughter is 20 and remembered this thriller as a child. I bought her a copy to keep for when she has children in the far future.
The Enchanted Wood
My mom would read to my sister and I all the time. I remember the pokey little puppy and the little red hen the most. I would always watch her lips move, for some reason that was comforting to me.
My mother has a peculiar way of turning pages. The sound it makes is soothing to me. =)
My first chapter book ever read was Heidi and I read it aloud to my grandmother. We were celebrating for Easter but honestly, that was my favorite part of the day! One of my best memories. As a child, when I was at after school care, instead of playing games and foot races with other kids, I’d climb up in an abandoned toy and just read a book. Library time at school was always my FAVORITE! If I were in a bad mood all the teacher had to do is mention library time and I was instantly happier!
As an adult, if I receive books or gift cards to buy books, I am the happiest in the world ?
The Wednesday Witch by Margaret Chew., and The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck….I was afraid of a title wave for years!
My family would read Harry Potter out loud before bed time as a way to wind down we would take turns reading each night. I’m a huge fan of the books and the movies and it is 110% because of my family.
My favorite memories are cuddling up to Enid blyton!
District nurse Sue Barton…
30 years later, I am indeed a nurse…!?
A book called Yuck I can no longer find ? and moon bird
Do you remember anything else about “Yuck”?
@Tammy it had two bad witches and a little good witch. The bad witches made positions with eyes and bat’s and owls. The little Witch made chicken soup.
https://www.amazon.com/Yuck-James-Stevenson/dp/057503677X
@Tammy oh my goodness I had given up hope to find this one ? you have made my week
Oz (all 16),Narnia (all 7), Phantom Tollbooth
I just read Phantom Tollbooth. Was not disappointed!
I loved the Phantom Tollbooth, and Narnia, but I never did read the Oz books! I’ll get around to them eventually!!
The Secret Garden and Jane Eyre touched me deeply. I did not realize why until I was an adult.
Love The Secret Garden!
I couldn’t read very well in 1st grade. It was bad. My neighbors daughter wanted too help me with that and had me read Bambi. But not the short version. Nope this one was glossy and shiny and really long. I hated reading for the longest time through school because of the struggle. But then I was getting tested in the Resource Room, and was reading at least 2 grades above me. By the time I got too 8th grade I was reading at an 11th – 12th grade level. But I can still see that book from 1st grade clear as day
The original Felix Stalten Bambi? Or one of the Disney printings?
@Tammy I think Disney
There was a, I think, a Dr. Seuss book, don’t remember what it was called, but it had a moose with big horns on it, and it let 4 or 5 animals peck holes into his horns for homes, and it was getting so heavy, that he told them to get off they refused and in time he lost his horns like every moose does, once a year. I loved that book, it was at my grandma’s house.
@Tammy yes that is the one, thank you.
The Chronicles of Narnia
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
Further up and further in!
The Little Witch series, Mrs Coverlet’s Magicians and all the Trixie Belden books at least a couple of times each.
my 8 month baby boy,s first books ? ?