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What was the first "real" book you read?
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The first book I remember picking out for myself and reading was Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, lol.
It was probably one of those Encyclopedia Brown books, although those were short stories from what I remember.
Either the Ramona Quimby books or Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
Aww, chapter books. I cried the first time my daughter brought a book home from the school library and told me it was a chapter book. Kids grow up way too fast! I think my first "real" book was either a Babysitter's Club book or something by Judy Blume (would love to do a reread on some JB, just because I remember my adolescence revolving around her books).
I'm sure there were others before, but I'm thinking Nancy Drew. Or The Wind in the Willows. Or Charlotte's Web.
Charlotte's Web is the first "real" book that I remember reading on my own. I was 7 I believe...
I remember reading the Amelia Bedelia books. Loved those!
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I remember reading a book called Silver Eyes and one called Tiger's Eye quite early. And the little House on the Prairie series.
Sally wrote: "My mom is very proud to tell me that I read all of Charlotte's Web before I started Kindergarten. I remember reading a book called Silver Eyes and one called Tiger's Eye quite early. And the li..."
I think Tiger Eyes and Watership Down were the first books to make me cry (I cry easily I guess).
I can't remember the first real book but I know the first non YA book I read was Chesapeake A Novel. This will tell you how bored I was the summer before 9th grade when I moved to VA and didn't know anyone!
Xaviera Hollander's The Happy Hooker....
Oh, that was last week.
Oh, that was last week.
Blaze and Thunderbolt, unless that's still considered a picture book. In that case, probably The Black Stallion. It was all horse books all the time.
That was the first dirty movie I saw. :) Lynn Redgrave was such a dirty bird!
I read The Hobbit in first grade... does it get any nerdier?
Reading Star Trek novels, maybe? Not that I did that...
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Reading Star Trek novels, maybe? Not that I did that..."While in your Star Trek uniform, Jacks?
It's possible I may have done that...But not when I was a 1st grader, of course. I hadn't discovered Star Trek yet.
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I don't. I remember the book was a mystery that involved spoons and that I checked the book out of the Immaculate Conception library. The book was rather boring, though. Thank God I found science fiction not long after.