Do you recall the very first book you bought for yourself?
Do you recall the very first book you bought for yourself?
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Do you recall the very first book you bought for yourself?
2nd grade. Scholastic book on the life of Helen Keller
The first Harry Potter Book.
I was 6 and couldn’t read most of the words yet lol
A Nancy Drew book- was so excited.?
Bobsey Twins
I loved the Bobsey Twins! I still have all mine in a box in my basement
No, but it was probably a Nancy Drew book.
I rummaged through boxes of books at a swap meet, and paid for several myself: House of Terror, Wilderness Champion, a Bobbsey Twins book, a Hardy Boys one, Born Free, etc.
Amelia Bedelia at the Scholastic Book Fair.
Don’t remember exactly which one, but I’m sure it’s an Agatha Christie book. Today I own about 65 Christi books.. ??
Most likely a Baby Sitters Club book
a Nancy Drew
The face on a milk carton
I’m pretty sure it was a Fear Street book, but I can’t remember which one.
Trixie Beldon
Hmm, I’m thinking Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys.. I honestly don’t remember I fee like I’ve been reading forever! Lol
Yes I do!
At a school book fair in elementary school I bought Charlotte’s Web. I was a bit nervous because I was afraid of spiders, but I loved it,
The flame and the flower
Scholastic book in early elementary school about a silly witch. I don’t
remember the name of it but I do remember that part.
4th or 5th grade book fair. It was my first romance paperback book. ?I’m 42 and still have it. ?
Ordered from Weekly Reader Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher about 60 years ago. I remember the title as Misunderstood Betsy. I loved the story of the nervous little girl who transforms when sent to a Vermont farm. Her no nonsense country relatives reminded me of my own country relatives. It was wonderful to buy a book because most (not all) of the books I read as a child came from the library.
Spent all my allowance at the fifth grade scholastic book fair.
I still have books with short stories and excerpts from novels from the school book sale of discontinued textbooks. Now, I’m a devotee of Barnes and Noble sale tables and Kindle bargains.
Hello God it’s me Margaret
Me too!
No
No!
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
There were probably some at school book fairs in elementary school, but I remember The Outsiders. I think it was 60 cents.
I love that book so much – that when my child was a teenager- he came home and had that book – I started reciting it from the beginning word for word – he was like wow mom –
No-I do remember that I was in HS. Up until then, I lived at my local library.
A Nancy Drew book. I used to save my allowance to buy them at John Wanamaker’s. They cost $1.25
Yes. In Cold Blood.
Nancy Drew ❤️?❤️
I’m sure it was probably a fear street book! I mean…aside from the book fair books. 🙂
Not sure of exact title, but probably a Nancy Drew mystery book!
Not really but I remember being a preteen and buying Amanda Quick books lol
I love Amanda Quick. Also her other , Jane Ann Krentz!
No! Too many years and books!
Probably was a Nancy Drew.
Charlottes web! I was so excited to buy my own book on my own! I also bought a book about Harriet Tubman
I’m sure it was Babysitters Club or something from the Scholastic Flyers but I don’t REMEMBER.
The first book I actually remember buying was Little Girl Lost by Drew
Barrymore. Eye opening into what she was exposed to at such a young age….I was probably 13 when I bought it.
I love Drew! I’ve never read that, I’ll have to find it
Me too she’s adorable
Pet Cemetery …most of the books I read for years was my Mom’s but that one I bought myself with birthday money
Charlie n the chocolate Factory
Who is Bugs Potter
(That’s the book, not an actual question…)
Yes! The Promise by Danielle Steel!
No. I’m not sure I could tell you the last book I bought myself. Lol.
Deenie by Judy Blume
I think it was a Stephen king novel
I guarantee it was a sappy romance book back in the early 70’s but that’s all I can remember. I still read romance, but not sappy ones ha ha
Little golden books at the local dime store on Main Street!
I don’t remember ever NOT buying books!
Dog called kitty by Bruce Wallace! I was in third grade
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
No, as I patronized the library so much and still do.
No.
My mom always bought me tons of books but I remember sneaking and buying Laura Palmer’s Diary when I was on vacation with my friend and her family. She had refused to buy that one for me. ?
Interview with a Vampire @ 14.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Late 60’s working in downtown Chicago I would spend my lunch hours at Kroch & Brentano’s…soooo many books…
Too long ago…
Nope.
Little women
No but I sure wish I did!! What a great question!
Pretty sure they were Trixie Belden books! 🙂
Me too, loved them
The Borrowers, it was birthday money.
That is a very long time ago..i am thinking it was a VC Andrews book.
Other than textbooks the first book I bought was from the Book of the Month Club. I could get a book free and then cancel the membership. I had almost no money so I did that. The free book I chose was a Dictionary. I was so excited to learn new words. I read it from cover to cover. I really am strange!
It was a harlequin romance. It was only 50 cents.
No! We always had a lot of books in our house and a library card when we entered Kindergarten! Now, however, I buy lots of books!
The Other Side Of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
Love love love that book –
No, but I’m sure it was out it the Scholastic book catalogs
With my own money, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Prior to that, there were many flea market Nancy Drews and a bunch from the Scholastic and Weekly Reader order forms that my parents bought for me.
Probably Encyclopedia Brown at the Book Fair @
school when I was nine ?????
No
Comic books Betty and Veronica .
No
Could have been Beverly Cleary’s Ellen Tebbits through Scholastic books at school.
Nope! It was too long and too many books ago!
Yes it was slient sister by Diana chainblain X
Wow good question- I wish I remembered- but alas to many years – and so many books later that I do not recall-
Where Are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark
Babysitter’s Club!!!
The first one I remember buying (because my mom bought and loaned me most of my books for most of my life- still does lol) was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
Yeah, that was s Sweet Valley High book .
Nope! My grandparents bought me most of my books as a child
Charlotte’s Web
Maybe The Black Stallion or Beautiful Joe
I saved my money for Gone With the Wind and The Lord of the Rings boxed set in eighth grade from Scholastic.
I do not although I was gifted many. The Bobbsey Twins were a treasure!
I used to save my allowance to but Scholastic Books. I do remember buying Ellen Tibbets, The Silver Spoon Mystery, and Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman Doctor.
Nooe
I do remember asking my mom to buy me the boxcar children.
My mom constantly bought me books as a kid. I don’t think I actually paid for one with money that I earned until high school when I bought The Outsiders.
No
Flowers In The Attic series.
Gosh, that is so far back but I believe it was A Tale of Two Cities.
One of the Little House on the Prairie books.
My grandmother always bought me books… Nancy drew, Trixie Beldon, etc, and I read every book on her bookcase (except Peyton Place which she burned so I couldn’t). She gave me my “favorite” book for a graduation present…a huge Webster’s dictionary (I begged for it!)
The first books I remember getting were the Little House series from my grandmother for Christmas. The first books I bought with my allowance were American Girl books
If I had to guess it would likely have been from The Babysitter’s Club series.
Bobbsey Twins?
Flowers in the Attic
How Animals Sleep-Scholastic Book order
No, but I still have the very first hard bound book given to me — ZOO DOCTOR.
I’m pretty sure it was something Trixie Belden.
I was a library kind of girl until we got the papers from Scholastic Readers with mail order forms from Englewood NJ….but no clue as to my first book purchase!!
I was a library kid too. Our school had one, and we went to the public library at least once a week. My mom had an extensive library and nothing was off limits. I received The Wizard of Oz as a Christmas gift and could not believe how different it was from the movie. I do not remember the first book I purchased for myself.
It was probably the Weekly Reader club at school……and I am still buying books or checking them out of the library.
I do both still
Not the title, but I remember saving my money and spending my allowance on a Nancy Drew book.