First Book You Ever read.

realiz · Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:50 pm

This makes me realize just how poor my memory is of early life. I cannot remember much of anything that happened before five and I don't really remember learning to read. I know that in perhaps grade one or two I was pretty proud that I was the only one reading a 'novel' (I think it was called The Little Prince, but have no idea what it was about) while the other kids were reading picture books. As far back as I can remember, I have always loved to read.

Cherrybear13 · Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:30 pm

Other than simple learning books, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I read this one first, then went backwards and read the Magicians Nephew. These were some good early on reading books.

Kurt Eichenwald · Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:31 pm

I'm not sure which was the first, but I remember the first that I reread over and over.

One was a book of short stories called "Once the Hodja."

The second was "A Wrinkle in Time."

v_serkov · Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:35 pm

I was 7 years old when I read The adventures of Thomas Sawyer. It was fantastic reading for me then . I never forget that :-)

chancew1 · Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:53 pm

At about five I remember my mother reading to me from a hardback and I would follow along in a paperback. I pretty much learned to read that way and was bored when we did "Dick and Jane" readers in school.

Unfortunately, she read "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Poe along with me - which has seriously warped me for the rest of my life.

Darnell1981 · Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:23 pm

If I remember correctly the first book I read was a Nancy Drew book called "The Secret of the Old Clock" by Carolyn keene. Though I believe that is a pseudonym and the person who actually wrote it was Mildred A. Wirt.

Karen Fisher-Alaniz · Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:18 pm

Is it weird that I remember the actual first book I ever read? It was called, Tip and Mitten. My first grade teacher introduced it to me and I was so proud I could read it all by myself.

R. LeBeaux · Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:44 pm

A red letter version of the Bible, and I only read the red- letter parts. This, however, was not voluntary, it was demanded by my parents. The first book I remember reading because I wanted to was a collection of fairytales by The Brothers Grimm at around age five. For those who may not know, a red letter version of the Bible is one in which all the words purported to have been uttered by Jesus are printed in red ink.

dascki · Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:50 pm

Hmm, other than books they made you read in class, the first books I ever read were the Dragonlance books. They were soooooo good! I hated the thought of reading anything, then when I started them, it was like a gateway series lol.

(author) Katelyn · Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:00 am

The first book I've ever read was The Red Hen, or something like that. Or it may have been the KJV Bible, John. I don't remember very well. I was three.

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