Your first book, What was it? |
 Sep 18 2009, 09:52 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie  Posts: 304 Joined: 4:15pm July 30, 2008 Location: Following Bugsy Sigel's ghost thru passageways beneath the Flamingo, Las Vegas   |
My VERY first books that I ever owned were the "Peter Rabbit" books by Beatrix Potter. When we moved, I saved the,. I still have them to this day, and I must say, for 27 year old books, they are in fantastic shape.
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Sep 18 2009, 10:58 PM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 329 Joined: 1:47am August 20, 2009 Location: The Burrow with Fred and George |
i was freshman in highschool when i read my friend's book Sweet Valley High. she was a big fan and she told me to try reading it and i did. i gave in because i wanted to find out why she's such a fan and what's so interesting about it. i'm not into books at that time yet but when i started reading that book, i got interested and slowly started to read the series. but when i was in junior high school, i saw an old book of my uncle titled West Point-something, while cleaning an old closet. a suspense thriller about a westpoint student investigating a murder of a fellow student who was gay. that was when i started reading serious stuff (books by Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsythe and Tom Clancy) and discarded the teen books Sweet Valley.
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Sep 22 2009, 06:53 AM
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One Half of the DDD  Posts: 8,943 Joined: 5:31pm August 30, 2006 Location: Siriusly Dreaming Somewhere |
I can't remember the first book I read (I was about three when I learned to read, so its wayyyyyy to far back). I know I read such things as Cinderella, Snow White, Noddy, various Fairy Tales by Enid Blyton, etc but I can't remember particular books. At school we were given Janet and John reading books which were incredibly boring, it's a wonder I carried on. The first ones I can remember owning were a set of books I received for Christmas one year along with my first bookcase. They were Little Women, Good Wives, Jo's Boys, Little Men, Tales of Robin Hood, Tales of Brave Adventure (Arthurian tales), Tom Sawyer, Heidi, Black Beauty and Gulliver's Travels. I've still got them and the bookcase. Books I got (and still have) at around the same time were Pinnochio, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Robinson Crusoe, The Water Babies and A Child's Garden of Verses.
--------------------  March's Book Nook: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge/Skellig by David Almond "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!" |
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Sep 29 2009, 07:00 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 86 Joined: 7:16pm December 27, 2008 Location: Among the bookshelves at Flourish and Blotts |
Like Dreamteam I too cannot remember the first book I ever read. I remember reading on my own from age 3 and reading lots of books (every Saturday morning was spent in the library!).
 I do remember that I had this beautiful, large book of classics and fairytales with lovely colour pictures that I loved to read again and again. I especially liked Goldilocks and The Three Bears and Red Riding Hood. I also read the Mr Men and Little Miss Books by Roger Hargreaves. -------------------- To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)
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Sep 29 2009, 02:03 PM
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Leaky's Resident Borg Queen  Posts: 11,901 Joined: 11:45am July 25, 2005 Location: in space, the final frontier . . . |
The first book I read over and over again was Charlotte's Web. My teacher that year wrote in a little memory book about how she'd never forget how many times I'd read it. It think that's when I really became a voracious reader.
-------------------- "That's why he fought. That's why he lived again, and that was the answer to Tam's question. I fight because last time, I failed. I fight because I want to fix what I did wrong. I want to do it right this time" -- Rand |
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Oct 13 2009, 03:52 PM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 95 Joined: 1:50pm October 10, 2009 |
My first book was Brown Bear,Brown Bear. I think it's by Eric Carl. I think I just caught onto that book so I'm not sure if it was really my "first book" The book I defiantly read by myself was "My Puppy"
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Oct 13 2009, 07:25 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 192 Joined: 10:36pm February 3, 2008 Location: ....WAIT! Where am I!? |
Harry potter and the philosoper's stone. No joke it actually was. I remember hiding under the table in my kindergarden class because the teacher was trying to get me to give up the book I "couldn't" read to get me to read hop on pop.
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Oct 30 2009, 11:44 AM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 43 Joined: 6:36am March 19, 2007 Location: Mt. Pleasant, TX |
I actually hatted to read until the summer between 8th and 9th grades when my older brother talked me into reading "The Belgariad" by David Eddings. It was actually 5 books but hey I was hooked after reading the first page. I have been an avid reader ever since. I have even started my own personal library and have collect just over 900 books (many I have not had the chance to read yet but I will).
-------------------- Jacob Miles
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Oct 31 2009, 06:44 AM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 67 Joined: 1:34am September 7, 2009 Location: somewhere in diagon alley |
My first book is The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. I bought it maybe x-mas vacation in my freshmen year. (I didn't like to read before) I saw the name 'JK Rowling' on the cover, and since I know her (but I haven't read HP yet) and she said it was one of the books that inspired her to make HP, I bought it and next thing I knew, I have a book to read everynight. ;)
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Oct 31 2009, 10:58 AM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 4 Joined: 2:21pm July 29, 2009 Location: standing in line at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes |
I don't actually remember the original first book that I ever read, it was probably in kindergarten or something, but in first grade my teacher was reading us Vacation Under the Volcano, one of the magic tree house books, and I went to the library and got the book and finished it. then I just got hooked on the Magic Tree House. I also read the Narnia books pretty early too. but yeah I always have to have my nose in a book now. I'm reading the Fellowship of the Ring.
 heehee i love star wars
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