First Book You Ever read.

EndlessLaymon · Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:50 am

The first thing I did read was a Spider-Man comic but the first book I read (other than the books I read when I was learning to read which was a book called Bye Bye Bottle) , was Goosebumps Welcome To Dead House when i was six going on seven I was a late bloomer embarrassingly
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Suzanne · Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:13 pm

This is a great question. The first book I remember reading is, "Treasure Island", Robert Louis Stevenson. I remember it because I loved it. I still love pirate stories.

froglipz · Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:14 pm

I was an early bloomer, I remember reading a book about a camel getting lost in a windstorm because it didn't hang onto the tail of the camel in front of it and one about fairies where the little girl built a house for them out of moss and stuff, those were the first two books I ever took out of the library, and I took those particular two out over and over again. I was 4 1/2

Murrill · Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:48 pm

Snow White & Rose Red

My affinity for this story would tell me much about myself in later years as I entered into adult relationships, I'm afraid. No wonder my therapist suggested that I read Melody Beatty books. :idea:

Jennygirl0322 · Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:12 pm

wow that's hard to think of. I have have always had so many books. I think it was the Wizzard of Oz. I have always loved that book and movie.

BelleS · Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:20 pm

I can't remember the first book I read, but I can remember the first time I became totally immersed in a book. I was 8 and the book was A Tale of Two Cities. I started crying when Sydney Carton did his 'far, far better thing'. Unfortunately I was sitting in class at the time, so another first followed- detention!

Ang85 · Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:43 pm

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, my mom rented the movie and when she told me it was based off a book she owned I stayed up late trying to read it. I was 8. It's still one of my favorites!

mzspaztastic · Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:27 pm

I don't know what the FIRST book I ever read was, but I remember reading Charlotte's Web in one day when I was 5 or 6. I was home with the chicken pox and was very, very proud of myself.

After that, I remember Where the Red Fern Grows, which I read every year or two still.

Dee Johns · Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:40 am

I don't remember my fist book though the earliest book I can recall are the ones we read in grade one and two; Dick and Dora, Nick and Fluff. An also the comic Archie.

Vishnu · Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:58 pm

Green Eggs & Ham.

sherri · Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:56 pm

The first books I ever read were the "Babysitters Club" books by Ann Martin. My Uncle bought me the first two in the series for Christmas when I was 11 and I read them all. The first adult book I can remember reading was "Flowers in the Attic" by V.C Andrews. I am not such a fan anymore since Andrew Neiderman is writing them. They are getting kind of stupid.

Chris OConnor · Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:23 pm

This is a great but tough question. I've been an avid reader all my life so remembering when I started reading actual books is difficult.

I do know I read some of these books in the beginning...

For the love of Benji
Escape to With Mountain
Snowbound
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach

There are a bunch of books I read when I was about 7 - 8 years old but I cannot remember the names. Once was about a bunch of kids who thought that lady that lived in the big scary house at the end of the street was a witch. I really wish I could remember that book name!

Oh, and then Bicycles North was great.

All of the Danny Dunn books were awesome as a child.

And I think I read just about all of the Hardy Boys books.

Chris OConnor · Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:26 pm

What a bummer. I just went to Amazon.com to see how much some of these books I just mentioned cost for my Kindle. I love re-reading books from my childhood. "Escape to With Mountain" is $14.95! Come on. That is ridiculous for a kids book decades old in eBook format. Snowbound is $9.99 - still too much for a short eBook. I really don't like seeing the direction eBook prices are going.

Pegasus796 · Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:17 am

I think it was called, "The Napping House." I was able to meet the authors and have them sign it for me. Very cute book that involved various critters joining Grandma in her bed until a flea plops on the cat on top and causes all of them to jump and break the bed. I'm pretty sure this is my first because I memorized it before I finally learned to read the words. The other one would be "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything"

MrsKGass · Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:08 am

The first book I ever read, all on my own, was Rumpelstiltskin, the year before I ventured into Kindergarten. I remember loving that book and being so proud that I could read my favorite book to myself and not be dependent on another person to have it read to me. Great topic for discussion!

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