Does anyone remember the first book they ever read? Mine was the Foot Book.
Does anyone remember the first book they ever read? Mine was the Foot Book.
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Does anyone remember the first book they ever read? Mine was the Foot Book.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales ?
Clifford’s Puppy Days was the first book I could “read” myself.
I think mine was either “Pickles the Firehouse Cat” or “Scuppers the Sailor Dog.” Both cute books, but it’s funny to think how far I traveled away from cute within five to seven years.
My lap. 2 minutes ago…. Did not think anyone else knew Pickles!!
Not a very well-known book now, but it will always be a cherished memory for me.
Actually use it to measure fringe for my knitting now. Perfect size… Probably the first redemption story I ever read 😛
Was searching to make sure nobody else had already posted a cartoon I shared here… Jaw hit the floor when this comment popped up 😀
@Cindy I use books as rulers occasionally. They should always have multiple uses!
Aye… As long as it doesn’t hurt them… I should probably pack the book up for preservation. The actual pages are getting old and brittle.
True.
Oh heck no! Sometimes I can’t even remember what I did yesterday. Old age it is a creepin’ in! But the first book I remember is Shirley Temple’s Fairy Tales.
Mine was called Emma and the awful eight an old Pocket Merlin novel.
No idea
In The Forest Of The Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Napping House
I can’t remember for sure the first, but some of the earliest books I remember were the Dick and Jane readers they still used my first few years of school, some of my Weekly Reader Book Club selections – Danny And The Dinosaur, The Matchstick Girl, Harry The Dirty Dog, Curious George – and Brighty Of The Grand Canyon.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
My first chapter book was either Laura Ingles Wilder or one of Beverly Cleary book. I loved those when I was younger
Besides my little golden books ?
The first book I read all by myself was Stephen King’s Christine at 8? (Not counting little tiny school books—which I don’t remember anyway)
Wow, adult fiction at 8. At 8 I was reading Goosebumps lol.
@Tara I know! I do not recommend this!??
Cujo was one of my first at 10 lol
I didn’t read any Stephen King until I was about 15.
Scared the daylights out of me!! Then I waited till I was older
If was an adoptee version of Wizard of OZ called the wizard of the emerald city…. one of the 6 books I read at the end of the first grade( hated reading at the time but my parents did not give me any choice)
I hated reading all through grade school and my parents never encouraged it. I was in special classes for reading until middle school then when I discovered R. L. Stine, my reading went threw the roof.
I hated reading in the elementary school but in my summer before 5 th grade I read the Headless horseman and was so hoocked I read the damn book in a day…. then I read all the books by Duma( three musketeers) and a few others we had and have been reading ever since… then I discovered the world of Michael Chriton( Jurassic Park) and I was hooked for life
Roald Dahl, The Twits ❤
Mine was the magic tree house series
The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton ?
The matchbox girl.. I read it in 4th standard and just sat in the library and cried.. There began my reading journey
La Clédu Bahut by Ella Monkton.
The social contract
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Could never hope for a better start.
Twilight series
A Dick and Jane book, probably. First grade was a loooooong time ago.
I first read, all by myself, Green Eggs and Ham 🙂
I think mine was some sort of Doctor Seuss book. Green Eggs and Ham maybe?
The little house by Virginia Lee Burton
A Ladybird book called The Discontented Pony.
Ladybird books ! The best !
V. C. Andrews “The Darkest Hour” Well its the book that got me into reading.
I just got that. Gonna start it soon. The book that got me into reading was “Welcome to Dead House” by R. L. Stine.
never got into R. L. Stine. my middle school years were definitely a V. C Andrews phase. In high school it was more of Storm Constantine phase
@Erica High was more Stephen King, then senior year I really got into really classic stuff like Beowulf, Great expectations, Canterbury Tales, etc. I just recently discovered V.C. Andrews. Purchased about 6 books at one time.
What trips me out about VC Andrews is she died in the mid 80s but the family hired ghost writers to write under her name.
@Erica Really? I didn’t know that. That’s crazy.
I have all her original works, the ghost writer is awful nothing like VC Andrews works. Can’t read them.
Her original work is awesome
Shreeman yogi from ranjeet desai…read it for about 7-8 times..
Bye bye bottle ☺ first book I read with out help
Literally my first book: Buzz, Said the Bee
First book I fell in love with: The Kaya series, the American Girl
My mom gave me an Addy book from the American Girl series when I was about 6.
Mrs. Mike
Danny and the dinosaur
a lady bird book at school
Nancy @Drew.
Heidi
Glass Sword ?
The Cat and the Hat. My father loves to read–when I was four he started me in this Dr.Seuss book club. Every month a different Dr. Seuss book came. I have a vague memory of reading “The Cat and the Hat” out loud to my Dad. I was four so most likely I was just repeating what I’d heard him read to me before 🙂
I had Sweet Pickles delivered. I was sad when the pickle van didn’t deliver them like in the commercials 😀
Mine was the gift danielle steel
I think it may have been The Magic Roundabout. It belonged to my sister who is older than me before it was mine. We even had a dog named Dougal after the dog in the book.?
The Hobbit
Poky Puppy
I think it was a Choose your own Adventure book, still love those ?
Josie~~Little Golden Book Series. (Man, I’m old!) ?
I remember the first book that led me to a life long love of science Fiction…Star Surgeon by Nourse. I was excited when I found that it was being republished as an e-book.
“Moonfleet” by J. Meade Falkner
All I remember is going to the library and getting a whole stack of books and reading all of them. I remember some of my first books I brought home that were mine and not from a library were Clifford the Big Red Dog books.
One Star Rocket – still have it somewhere. First book that got me hooked on Fantasy – The Wizard of Earthsea.
Not sure which one but definitely a Dr. Seuss book!
Peter Rabbit, then The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
The White Tiger.
Richard scary and dr. Seuss
I don’t remember what it was called, but it was a Dr. Suesss, it was actually my favorite, not my first. It was the one with the mouse in it and he let all these creatures live on his horns and they started ruining his horns, but then it came time for his horn’s to fall off.
the ugly duckling,.. i think when i was 9 yrs old,,. given by my untie,..
Little Golden Books
L’étranger; ALbert Camus
My mother has a copy of The Three Billy Goats Gruff that I CHEWED the spine out of when I was little
Good taste in books ?
Must have been
The Pokey Little Puppy
mINE TOO.
Unfortunately, my original copy got “destroyed” after going through my hands, my brother’s and my sister’s. Fortunately, some years ago I worked part time at Barnes & Noble and was able to buy another copy of it as it had come back into print. I was more excited about finding that than almost any other book!
Miss Hickory. Don’t remember if it’s the very first (sure I was reading something in 1st grade) but it’s the first I remember really well. Part of it was because I was so proud to be reading a “thick” book.
Fun with dick and Jane.. lol
This was probably mine but for some reason I don’t remember. Guess it was too many years ago.
my first “serious” chapter book was 3rd or 4th grade The Whipping Boy.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it was short children’s edition. Read it when I was around 7 years old…
I think To Kill a Mockingbird
how did you learn to read then?
I don’t remember my childhood at all. I am sure I learned to read in school but the earliest book I remember reading was in Jr high school.
A Nancy Drew am sure.. although I’ve forgotten the title
Gingerbread man
A to Z mysteries by ron roy but i dont remember which part ??
The Hobbit is the first book I can really remember..,read to me every night by my Dad…it was one of his favourites and now one of mine.
First book I ever ever read was Aunt Dimity Takes A Holiday. It was a library book :'( The first book I read that was mine was Dork Diaries.
Valley of the Dolls!!
The very first one? Wow .. not sure at all but maybe it was little red ridding hood ?
I was in primary school and the book was called Bandits In the Hills. Can’t remember who wrote it but it got me hooked on reading.
Mine was the Invisible Man ?
A Fly Goes By
Ferdinand the Bull
Pippi Longstocking
Grade 1 book it was called “But No Elephants”
Not sure of my first, but my favorite was Hand, hand, fingers, thumb – a Dr. Seussish type book. My mom hated the nights we’d read that book (repeatedly) ?.
First chapter book that stuck with me was Silent Storm – the first time I remember crying over a story
Magic Tree House
A series of fortunate events