First Books You Ever Read?

[Andy]

What are some of the first books you ever read? And yes, I'm talking about the ones when you were in the really young category. :D

I remember Goodnight Moon. And a story about a boy an an apple tree. Can't remember the title.

[jordanisonfire]

I used to be a really big Roald Dahl fan when I was young. George's Marvellous Medicine was my favourite.

[Phantom]

I read one about different kinds of pizza... Then I was so advanced in the first grade I read all the books by Laura Ingles(spelling?) Wilder. So yeah, and in kindergarden I read one about a little boy that went fishing.

[Majyk]

What's That Said the Cat was probably the first one. It had like... a sentence on each page :p. I had Goodnight Moon, too. Two copies, actually (no idea why). Also Serendipity (sp?) plus lots others that I don't remember the names off.

[Andy]

I remember my brother had several Spot books. :D

http://www.grundschulstunden.de/acatalog/wheres_spot.jpg

[Phantom]

Your spelled serendipity right, Majyk. I found a book called Piggy Plays in the Mud, got to color the inside of it... The mud was purple.

[Nyx]

I remember Goodnight Moon. And a story about a boy an an apple tree. Can't remember the title.

Oh my god, do you mean THE GIVING TREE? I think that was one of the first I read, and a whole bunch of other Shel Silverstein books, my favorite was probably A Giraffe and a Half, and it's still one of my favs :P

[Andy]

Oh my god, do you mean THE GIVING TREE? I think that was one of the first I read, and a whole bunch of other Shel Silverstein books, my favorite was probably A Giraffe and a Half, and it's still one of my favs :P
Yeah, that was the title. :) I also had Falling Up and Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Remember the one about the girl who said she would die if she didn't get a pony? And then...she did, and her parents regretted not getting the pony? :D

[Nyx]

Yeah, that was the title. :) I also had Falling Up and Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Remember the one about the girl who said she would die if she didn't get a pony? And then...she did, and her parents regretted not getting the pony? :D

Haha yep, I still have most of his books. But...The Giving Tree is kind of coloured with my 6 year old's amazing crayon skills :rolleyes:

[Ichigo]

Piggle. I don't know who wrote it... But I loved it!
I also read lots of Amelia Bedelia books, written by Peggy Parish.

[Zombified]

Oh it was Dr. Seuss all the way.

Loved that shit, man.


And then of course I moved on to Goosebumps.

[Nyx]

I used to be a really big Roald Dahl fan when I was young. George's Marvellous Medicine was my favourite.

YA! I loved Roald Dahl! Boy and BFG were my favourites.

[jordanisonfire]

I read Boy when I was older, like nine, 'cos it was too compilcated for me before. I've never actually read the BFG...

[Nyx]

Aw, the BFG is so cute ^^

[Shaun]

I remember reading Dr. Seuss a long time ago, but I don't know if that was before or after I gobbled up practically all the Hardy Boys, Three Investigators, and Goosebumps/Fear Street stuff. Yes, I know, Goosebumps are terrible and garbage, but I liked them when I was a kid, so bite me. I can't remember what I read before that, though. That's the truth. I didn't become an avid reader until I was almost finished with high school, which is a terrible shame. My parents never read to me and I wish they had; it might have been better for me. I liked reading when I was younger, though, I just didn't read as often as I would have liked.

[Pibs]

I don't remember the FIRST book I read, but I know the first chapter book (Heh, that sounds so funny to say now!) I ever read was the first Magic Treehouse book. Those and the Nate the Great books were my favorite!

SPOT!!!! I love Spot! My parents read those books to me aaaaalll the time! :D

@Zombie - Squee! Dr. Suess! I love Dr. Suess! I still read them now, sometimes! ^^

[Majyk]

I don't remember the FIRST book I read, but I know the first chapter book (Heh, that sounds so funny to say now!) I ever read was the first Magic Treehouse book.

Me, too, Pibs! Someone gave it to me for my birthday. Although I didn't really want to read it, my mom made me start, and I loved them after that. There were so many, it was great.

[Midnight_Moon]

I can't remember. I had lots of trouble reading actually in about 2nd grade. I had to go to a learning center to help me and everything. It was really bad. But now I love to read!

[Midnight]

Oh boy. the FIRST book I ever read was Whats That Said The Cat

The first chapter book I read was probably the Magic Tree House, but Majyk read these other books in the car... I forget what they were called...

[Crocolyle]

I read a lot of Encyclopedia Brown, Roald Dahl, and Goosebumps in second to fourth grade.

[jordanisonfire]

Favourite Roald Dahl?

[Chie'N'Kadath]

I read a lot of C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl when I was a kid. Narnia was probably the first 'universe' I ever got into. And to answer Shadow above (I know he wasn't asking me, but I might as well) my fav Roald Dahl is The Fantastic Mr. Fox. In fact, I cannot waitfor this. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)

[jordanisonfire]

Haha, sweet. Yeah, Mr Fox was one of those I read. I can only remember George's Marvellous Medicine and Fantastic Mr Fox, but I know I read more than that when I was young.

[jordanisonfire]

The Twits, Esio Trot and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were others I read.

[Nyx]

Aw I loved Matilda, I still flip through the book sometimes xD

I can't beileve they're making Mr. Fox a movie -gets super excited-

[Crocolyle]

My favorite would have to be The Witches. I also liked both Charlie books and Matilda, but I remember loving the Witches the most. The ending was sad though.

Did anyone ever notice that many Roald Dahl stories seem to roughly follow Grimm fairy tale archetypes?

[Wolfie]

All I remember is that I started out reading Suess, and then I moved to Beverly Cleary's books. They were my favorite books for a long time, not because I read all the way through them(which I actually never did. :P), but because for my age, they looked huge and impressive, and I was reading them! xD I know I read a bunch of other books, but those are the only ones I actually remember.

[Rowenny]

Oh, one of the first books I enjoyed reading was something from Enid Blyton. And, when I was a kid, I really loved ghost stories. Ghost stories and adventures where my favorite books. ^_^

[lango]

Same here, Rowenny, I read Enyd Blyton's entire 'children' collection, then I moved on to her young adult books, plus Roald Dahl's BFG and charlie and the chocolate factory. My first big book was Matilda and then some book about a girl that went to a girls only school from Enyd Blyton. Yeah, not very manly, I know :P And then... Animorphs!!!

[lostbookworm]

I think it was the Magic Key with Chip. Then Roald Dahl. I loved them both.

[Jack]

I had a collection of Roald Dahl books when I was little, they were the first proper books I ever read. I read his two autobiographies, can't remember what they were called, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, The Great Glass Elevator, BFG, The Twits, Witches and a bit of Fantastic Mister Fox.

[DarkRaven]

"A Garden for Tom" was the first book I read. It was part of the "Read it Yourself" series we used in school.

But the first "real novel" I read was probably "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". They say that I'm part of the "HP/TXT" generation. The most literate generation of young people that refuses to spell properly!

[Clawfire]

I remember my favourite book was Bilby Moon… It's really cute… That was when I was around five, though...

[Matty Lee]

My first real book series was "Captain Underpants". Before that I hated reading and anything to do with it.

[Kitty]

I have to say it was the chronicles of Narnia. I barely remember some of the later books more reading the first ones, such as the first couple, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Voyage Dawn Treader, & The Magician's Nephew. I had to be eight or seven or something because the full weight of the books wasn't much registered and it was a fantasy story, I must say I liked them though, if only as a story and not a idea of something else.

[x3naurus]

Hmm... I don't think I've ever read a book... :/

Well, yeah, Captain Underpants, but... a book? With chapters? Scary...O_o

[lalodragon]

Well, they tell me that Laura Ingalls Wilder's books were my inspiration to read. (long story short, I wanted them read to me 24/7 and when that didn't happen I listened in on my brother's reading lessons and taught myself to read. I was two, so I don't remember.) Mom says I was reading the KJV bible soon after I learned to read. But mostly I remember my dad reading the Hobbit to us when I was 6 (or something like that). I read it after he read it to me. :D

[Dew]

Um... my first basic novel books I read when I was 7, most of the Beverly Cleary books. For all of second grade those were the only books I'd read.

[KythingToWrite]

Wow... the first "real" book that I read myself (which means the ones we didn't use at school) was Noddy has an adventure by Enid Blyton when I was around five. I was delighted because it actually had chapters.
When I turned six, I got a cartload of books from my aunt in America, which delighted me to no end since by then I had already read all the books in my little shelf and getting books here at the time was very difficult. I got most of the A to Z Mysteries and a couple of Magic Treehouse books.
But I really started reading when I travelled to London and got The Wishing Chair, The Magic Faraway tree, The Secret Seven series, The Famous Five series, Charlie and the Chocolate factory and The Chronicles of Narnia. Within a year of reading those, I literally devoured every Blyton and Dahl book I could get my hands on. So... I guess I owe my reading to Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton and CS Lewis.
My favourite Roald Dahl book was, um... I guess it's a tie between The BFG, Matilda, The Witches and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Wow, that was a long post! ;)

[Faust]

Well the first non-picture book I read was magic thief when I was 5.

[Syn]

Ugh, I really can't remember the first one.. We had to read some small books in elementary school, but I can't remember which one was first. But one of my most memorable ones (and also the longest ones) was Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. I loved that one!
But one of the first ones I read when I decided that I wanted to start reading more was Stoker's Dracula. I loved the love story aspect of the book xD

[Amateur_Voice]

Hocus and Pocus at the Circus :)

Such a great little book. I'm feeling nostalgic right now.

[bookworm]

I can't remember the very first ones ("Peepo" perhaps). Something I really loved was "The last noo noo" about a monster who doesn't want to stop sucking dummies and plants a "noonoo tree".
A little later, I fell in love with The Faraway Tree series. I started reading Enid Blyton's boarding school stories, Malory Towers then St Clares.
I also tried reading Harry Potter quite early (seven?), though I had no clue what every second word meant, but I enjoyed it all the same.
As for my favourite Roal Dahl... I think I read Matilda and the BFG practically all the time, especially The BFG. I remember the midnight hour and Sophie hiding under her blanket...
I loved all of his books. I also enjoyed The Witches and James and The Giant Peach (I prefered James to Charlie).

[Summer]

believe it or not, the first book i read was War and Peace, which made me never want to read any more,cause i couldn't know even a word which is rather pathetic,but there was something pleasant in reading this book, and it turned out to be the only thing i remember now, that is there is a girl who is so charming and cute,she wants to fly to the sky

[jtvenz72]

the first novel I read was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

[Julian]

Awwww epic nostalgia!

I remember my first book being a facts book... It had lotsa illustrations and facts that are disregarded as irrelevant in today's society (the tragedy, really...). I remember being so enamored with the duck-billed platypus, haha.

Aside that, my first book was Goldilocks, followed by the Grimm's fairytales. The most memorable tale there, I can recall, was Death's messenger. The story was so poignant.