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For July 29th: What is the first book you remember reading all by yourself?

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Katia

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens at the âge of 10 ❤❤❤❤ will never forget it

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Elizabeth

The Wizard of Oz.

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Carmel

I only remember reading by myself- except my brother reading me ‘Where do you come from?’ When I was about 4!

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Sonya

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.

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Nikki

The Lion In the Meadow by Margaret Mahy

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AJ

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

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Lisa

Bobbsey Twins

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Mark

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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Amanda

Chica Chica Boom Boom at age 6

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Donna

Green eggs and ham

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Pat

Little Women

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Mary

I think it was Go, Dog. Go!

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Liz

Babysitters Club when I was 7 or 8.

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Louisa

Dick and Dora readers

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David

Stig of the dump.

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Cassie

One of the Clifford books.

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Sean

Michael Morpurgo. The wreck of the Zanzibar.

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Cathy

The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. I was 7.

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Leslie

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.

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Sandy

The Bobbsey Twins

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Susan

Rosie the Rhino

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Sarah

The one and only Junie B. Jones books!

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Melinda

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.

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Moody

The caterpiller

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Bonnie

Probably a Dick and Jane book.

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Chance

a Thomas the Tank Engine book

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James

James and the Giant Peach

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Kathy

Berenstain Bears

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Kari

Lil Black Sambo

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Maheswari

Cinderella…

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Ashley

Beauty and the beast(kids version) the new book smell got my addiction started early at 4 🙈

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David

Nancy Drew. The Hidden Staircase

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Cynthia

I dont remember but i think there was mr squigles and misses triangle

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Melissa

Enid blyton – the famous 5

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Maxine

the sisterhood of the traveling pants

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Jeff

Clifford the Big Red Dog

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Jay

I remember that one

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Heather

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Lynndi

Dr susse

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Lynndi

CJ i think I might have missed spelled it Dr suss

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Lynndi

CJ the cat in the hat series

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Beth

Put me in the Zoo – Dr Seuss

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Jade

Green Eggs and Ham

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Sally

Uncle Wiggly

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CJ

Little Black Sambo! Love the book and still have it! Controversial books don’t scare me and shouldn’t upset anyone.

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Carmel

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.

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Donna

I have a copy of this book also. It’s old and worn, I like that 😁

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Victoria

My Grandma probably read this to me a million times before I (finally) read it all by myself! ☺️

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Kay

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!)

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Kathryne

Golden Books. Little Mommy.

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Katrina

This was my absolute favorite! I wanted that girl’s life so badly.

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Joanna

A book from the library about chimps with lots of photos. I took it out many times!

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Cathy

I don’t remember the first book I read. Too long ago…but the first BIG book I read was Little Women.

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Joanna

I remember reading that too; possibly first book to make me weep..

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Deanna

Dr Seuss

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Dhivya

The magic of the lost temple – sudha murthy book is nice

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Penny

Run, Dick, Run

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Audrey

Dick and Jane

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Susan

Little house in the big woods

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Simone

Goodnight Moon

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Gail

Bobbsey Twins, Lisa had forgotten about that…way before Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames etc

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Cathy

I read all of those. He Cherry Ames series was my favorite and led me to a career in nursing

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Leigh

Either the Valachi Papers or Kane and Able.

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Amanda

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!!

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Katrina

That is true for me too, but it wasn’t a series yet in my childhood. 😉

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Mary

The Best Nest!

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Kelly

The lion the witch and the wardrobe…..

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Katrina

Billy and Blaze

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Cherie

Freckle Juice

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Lucia

Alice in wonderland

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Elizabeth

Dick and Jane – my big sister’s copy

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Andi

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.

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Jeana

Dr. Doolittle

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Kathleen

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

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Patricia

Little Women

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Cheryl

Giant book of Mother Goose Rhymes.

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Janki

A bridge across forever… Richard Bach

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Di

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Jed

Much like swimming, I don’t ever remember a first. I have always read… It is one seamless memory.

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Barbara Question author

Agree

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Trupti

Tom Sawyer. My mom actually read half the story & told me to read if I wanted to know the ending!

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Leah

Since I have Dyslexia, I was a late bloomer in the reading department. It was Where the Red Fern Grows.

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Ashley

Into the land of the unicorns

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Crystal

A Nancy Drew novel

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Heather

Where The Wild Things Are

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Andie

The Fox and the Hound

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Don

The Incredible Journey

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Margie

The Oregon Trail

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Janet

A book of Andersen’s fairy tales.

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Marie

Nancy Drew

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Deirdre

Dick and Jane

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Jill

And Sally, Spot, and Puff!!

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Anne

And I was gifted with this newer version some years ago. Highly recommend!

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Yalta

Bible

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Julia

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)

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Julia

I specifically remember the giraffe entry and the poem about the dancing potatoes with matchsticks for limbs.

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Sarah

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.

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Cheryl

So was my little sister.

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Candace

Aesop’s Fables. I loved it

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Gloria

The first book that triggered my lifelong passion was, “The Black Stallion.”

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Stephanie

Black Beauty

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Janine

The Secret Garden

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Mary

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

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Linda

Green Eggs and Ham

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Elaine

The Bobbsey Twins Mysteries

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Betsy

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.

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Beckie

Heidi.

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Janet

I read that when I was young, too. A favorite.

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Sydney

Magic tree house

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Danielle

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.

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Darcy

Stuart Little

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Christa

Nursery Rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

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Christy

Flower for Algernon

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Chin

I love that story!

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Lori

Gus the Friendly Ghost or Curious George lol

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Anne

Dick and Jane! 😳

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Chin

The Little Engine That Could 😊❤

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Margaret

Dick and Jane

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Judy

Little Black Sambo, I was 4 or 5 little golden book

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Jenn

Frog and Toad are Friends

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Jane

Green Eggs and Ham

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Kira

Goosebumps

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Sami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Monica

The Rose for her grave… Can’t remember the writer. I was seventeen years old.

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