What is the first book you remember reading all by yourself?
For July 29th: What is the first book you remember reading all by yourself?
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For July 29th: What is the first book you remember reading all by yourself?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens at the âge of 10 ❤❤❤❤ will never forget it
The Wizard of Oz.
I only remember reading by myself- except my brother reading me ‘Where do you come from?’ When I was about 4!
Little Black Sambo. I loved that book. Think I still have it, but very worn. I wanted to be as smart as he was. Very controversial book now, but then it was just a book about a boy who outsmarted a tiger.
The Lion In the Meadow by Margaret Mahy
I can’t remember exactly which one but it was from Enid Blyton’s Five Find Outers series
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Find-Outers
Bobbsey Twins
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Chica Chica Boom Boom at age 6
Green eggs and ham
Little Women
I think it was Go, Dog. Go!
Babysitters Club when I was 7 or 8.
Dick and Dora readers
Stig of the dump.
One of the Clifford books.
Michael Morpurgo. The wreck of the Zanzibar.
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. I was 7.
Oh that was such a long time ago! The first one that popped in my head was Meph The Pet Skunk. No longer in print. Black Beauty and Little Women also. I know I was reading by myself before kindergarten.
The Bobbsey Twins
Rosie the Rhino
The one and only Junie B. Jones books!
The Little House Series – I loved Laura and felt like we would have been best friends. The first book I read that I became completely immersed and obsessed with: “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle”. I read it as a 3rd grader.
The caterpiller
Probably a Dick and Jane book.
a Thomas the Tank Engine book
James and the Giant Peach
Berenstain Bears
Lil Black Sambo
Cinderella…
Beauty and the beast(kids version) the new book smell got my addiction started early at 4 ?
Nancy Drew. The Hidden Staircase
I dont remember but i think there was mr squigles and misses triangle
Enid blyton – the famous 5
the sisterhood of the traveling pants
Clifford the Big Red Dog
I remember that one
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dr susse
@CJ i think I might have missed spelled it Dr suss
@CJ the cat in the hat series
Put me in the Zoo – Dr Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham
Uncle Wiggly
Little Black Sambo! Love the book and still have it! Controversial books don’t scare me and shouldn’t upset anyone.
This was one of my favourites- I had a always borrowed the spiral bound copy from the library. I found a copy years ago at the Louvre book shop in Paris.
I have a copy of this book also. It’s old and worn, I like that ?
My Grandma probably read this to me a million times before I (finally) read it all by myself! ☺️
The library had a series of biographies for kids. I read them all. (This was around 1950, and the series included a number of women, and I think one POC!)
Golden Books. Little Mommy.
This was my absolute favorite! I wanted that girl’s life so badly.
A book from the library about chimps with lots of photos. I took it out many times!
I don’t remember the first book I read. Too long ago…but the first BIG book I read was Little Women.
I remember reading that too; possibly first book to make me weep..
Dr Seuss
The magic of the lost temple – sudha murthy book is nice
Run, Dick, Run
Dick and Jane
Little house in the big woods
Goodnight Moon
Bobbsey Twins, @Lisa had forgotten about that…way before Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames etc
I read all of those. He Cherry Ames series was my favorite and led me to a career in nursing
Either the Valachi Papers or Kane and Able.
I’m sure there were others before these, but my first real connection to a book that I can actually recall is The Boxcar Children series. Loved those books so much!!
That is true for me too, but it wasn’t a series yet in my childhood. ?
The Best Nest!
The lion the witch and the wardrobe…..
Billy and Blaze
Freckle Juice
Alice in wonderland
Dick and Jane – my big sister’s copy
It was a new picture book or Little Golden book (my parents don’t remember which one) that my dad brought home one day when I was 4. My dad said he’d read it to me after dinner; I didn’t want to wait. That’s when my parents realized that I had learned to read.
Dr. Doolittle
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
Little Women
Giant book of Mother Goose Rhymes.
A bridge across forever… Richard Bach
Much like swimming, I don’t ever remember a first. I have always read… It is one seamless memory.
Agree
Tom Sawyer. My mom actually read half the story & told me to read if I wanted to know the ending!
Since I have Dyslexia, I was a late bloomer in the reading department. It was Where the Red Fern Grows.
Into the land of the unicorns
A Nancy Drew novel
Where The Wild Things Are
The Fox and the Hound
The Incredible Journey
The Oregon Trail
A book of Andersen’s fairy tales.
Nancy Drew
Dick and Jane
And Sally, Spot, and Puff!!
And I was gifted with this newer version some years ago. Highly recommend!
Bible
Tistou of the green thumb, and the whole 1953 edition of the Childcraft encyclopedia ( it was my mom’s, and now it’s my daughters)
I specifically remember the giraffe entry and the poem about the dancing potatoes with matchsticks for limbs.
I have no idea – I was 18 months old when my mum recorded me reading postman pat. I’m not sure if I was actually reading or just reciting a book I had memorised. I do not remember not being able to read though. I know I was fluent by the time I started school at 4 and reading famous five when I was barely 5 myself.
So was my little sister.
Aesop’s Fables. I loved it
The first book that triggered my lifelong passion was, “The Black Stallion.”
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Green Eggs and Ham
The Bobbsey Twins Mysteries
Me too…it was my first big book. but i also remember reading the Pokey Little Puppy and The Little Engine that Could at about three or four. I simply do not remember not reading.
Heidi.
I read that when I was young, too. A favorite.
Magic tree house
I read so early but I think it was The monster at the end of this book. It’s an Elmo book and my favorite when I was a kid. I still have it and I’m 36.
Stuart Little
Nursery Rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Flower for Algernon
I love that story!
Gus the Friendly Ghost or Curious George lol
Dick and Jane! ?
The Little Engine That Could ?❤
Dick and Jane
Little Black Sambo, I was 4 or 5 little golden book
Frog and Toad are Friends
Green Eggs and Ham
Goosebumps
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Rose for her grave… Can’t remember the writer. I was seventeen years old.