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What was the first book you read all by your little self?

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― Abbott, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

I can remember an early one being the apdaptation of the film Universal Soldier.

It was A++++

― Drooone, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dargate.com/247_auction/247_images/110.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/67/988/629/067988629X.jpg

― ghost rider, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

DO YOU LIKE MY HAT

― ghost rider, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

NO I DO NOT LIKE YOUR HAT

― ghost rider, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

GOOD-BYE THEN

― ghost rider, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

GOOD-BYE

― ghost rider, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

it'snot just a reading lesson, it's a life lesson

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember the first book I read, but I do remember that, before I could read, I had memorized How the Grinch Stole Christmas and I liked to pretend I was reading that out loud.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

my mom still has a casette of me reading a book called "Let Papa Sleep." I was so cute when I was four.

this is the only listing I can find for it. But there is an amazon review:

I just love it when Mama says, "Why is this here, and this here, and this here?" Then: "Chip and Pip were very quiet. Chip and Pip made no noise."


Weird. Reading that is like going back in time. I haven't even thought about that book for 25 years.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.deboeinijverdal.nl/artikel/image/264695.jpg?productimage=true

― Gaia1981, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

I mean: http://www.deboeinijverdal.nl/artikel/image/264695.jpg?productimage=true

― Gaia1981, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't realize you were Dutch (or Belgian), Gaia1981!

Anyway, I can't remember. I just know I was about 11 yrs old and I had to read it for class. I'm very thankful we received a reading assignment otherwise I don't think I'd ever have read any books. After that I caught the reading bug and would spend a lot of my pocket money on books.

― nathalie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

I can't recall either. It might have been Penguin's Progress. Or if we're talking really basic books, er the Mr Men or Munch Bunch.

I liked a book called the "Great Gulper" when I was young. It's about this orange furry monster who drinks oil. He cleans up an oil spill and gets to have tea with the queen. I still have the book.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/gulper.jpg

― jel --, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

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― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

I read comic books for years before I read my first real book, which I don't remember.

― StanM, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember, because it was long before my memory started working properly.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

I remember giving a reading of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in my first grade class at school when I was four.

― Uptoeleven, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

Some picture book starring Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, back when I was 5. I remember it had been read out loud to me, and suddenly I just realized I could read it myself. First grade in school was kinda boring for those who could read already - we had to sit in the back of the class and read some very stupid kiddie books. I would've preferred reading comics.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Y'all count books with PICTURES as *reading* books? Pah!

― stevienixed, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hell yes!

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― Oilyrags, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Can't remember the first thing I read. The first thing I can remember reading is "Where the Wild Things Are". This was/is/will forever be BRILLIANT.

― peteR, Thursday, 12 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

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― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

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A is for Annabelle, Grandmother's doll / who sits in her box on the chest in the hall.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think the first picture book that I "read" (ie memorized) was the Berenstains' B Book. Big brown bear, blue bull, beautiful baboon...

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As for reading for real, I remember being really into a double-sided book with Raggedy Ann Tales on one side and Peter Pan on the other when I was about five. (Like you'd flip it over and the front cover of the other book would start on the back side. I'm not explaining that well, but it was super cool and blew my little mind.) I read the hell out of The Bobbsey Twins: In the Country and Heidi at around that time, too.

― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Blowing bubbles, biking backwards...

― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it was Alexander and the Magic Mouse. I actually bought a copy of that off ebay a few years ago because I love it so. The pictures are really beautiful. But I can't remember if I read that myself. I do remember my parents growing tired of it because it is pretty long.

― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

I started reading when I was three and although I have memories of many picture-type books I don't remember any as the "first". The first "grown-up" book I really remember was a super-watered down version of Plato/Socrates that was part of a young adult book set my mother had. That was probably kindergarten or first grade. There was a volume of simplified Shakespeare in there too.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

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(not this particular edition)

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://recordbrother.typepad.com/photos/hot_rod_cartoon_mags/hot_rod_cartoons_sept_67.html

I had a pile of hot rod mags from the 60's. I have no idea where they came from. I especially loved the Hot Rod Cartoons and CARtoons. These are the first things I remember reading after dick and Jane with the grownups. I had this issue. My mother threw them out because I spread them out on the floor to read them and never picked them up.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid image. Here's a link

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)


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