Do you guys remember the first book you ever read without help as a child? Obviously it's going to be a baby book. I remember reading the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", when I was four and being extremely proud.
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My family also had a copy of that book, but I don't remember the first book I read cover to cover. I was very stubbornly lazy at that age and kept trying to get my mother to read things to me instead of having to read them myself, so I would have considered reading a whole book a failure.
Probably "What do People do All Day?"
Richard Scarry was a fucking genius.
The Spooky Old Tree.
Don't remember.
Possibly a Curious George book.
Go Dog Go!
No idea, but I know that The Very Hungry Catarpillar was my favorite book to have read to me by my mom. In German though (Raupe Nimmersatt).
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Quote from: PDH on February 14, 2016, 09:40:04 PM
Probably "What do People do All Day?"
Richard Scarry was a fucking genius.
His books were never very frightening. Goosebumps was better.
Not really.
A Spot the Dog book maybe?
I think it was Winnie the Pooh.
My parents were very good at reading to me, and when I learnt to read myself, I re-read my favourite stories by Lindgren and Milne.
I can't remember any specific. Probably Peter Pedal (Curious George) or Peter Plys (Winnie the Pooh), possibly a Lindgren or H.C. Andersen story. The first book I had gifted to me was a 3-bind illustrated H.C. Andersen fairy tale collection.
Quote from: Jaron on February 15, 2016, 02:55:41 AM
Quote from: PDH on February 14, 2016, 09:40:04 PM
Probably "What do People do All Day?"
Richard Scarry was a fucking genius.
His books were never very frightening. Goosebumps was better.
You shouldn't have been reading his books by the time you moved on to Goosebumps. :console:
It was one called "El Menjalletres" (the Letter-Eater). My mother keeps it (she keeps EVERYTHING).
I was a sucker for Enid Blyton books when I moved to non-picture books though. :blush:
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This one could have very possibly been my first book, too. :wub:
I loved it, and I loved Scarry, to the point that it became one of the fist books I've read to my children.
L.
I've no idea but my favorite childhood book was:
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Anyone remember "The Wind In The Willows"?
I think that was the first novel with some political message I read.
Vinden i piletræerne? Yes of course I remember that!
The Norwegian translation was "Det suser i sivet". :uffda:
It was a radio serial too.
I think my age class (about 1971 to 1975) was the last one to read stuff like The Hardy Boys and Enid Blyton's Five series.
I have fond memories of Ole Lund-Kirkegaard as well.
Ah yes, I read a lot of Ole Lund-Kirkegaard and saw all the films many times, especially Orla Frøsnapper. :)
"Gummi-Tarzan". :)
I read a few Topsy and Tim books:
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And the Fun With Dick and Jane books (no sniggering at the back) with the infamous "See Spot run" line:
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Ladybird graded reading books were school essentials:
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The Caterpillar one was for a time a favourite of our oldest. Of course we had to read it to him. lol
Not quite sure what the first book was I read myself. Might very well have been the children's bible when I was six.
"Go Dogs Go".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go,_Dog._Go!
I don't remember it, but my mother does. It was also my very first literary reference.
I was in one of the old Dominion stores, right after reading it; they had a rotisserie there. I stared at it, totally fascinated. Eventually, I summed it up by saying "many chickens go round and round".
This was a paraphrase of "many dogs go around and around" ...
Quote from: Norgy on February 15, 2016, 04:50:37 AM
Anyone remember "The Wind In The Willows"?
I think that was the first novel with some political message I read.
A Frog! A Frog!
The first book I ever read was "Go Dog Go!" I did a book report and got an A. I loved it and read more and more. Then I went to a petting zoo and a guy in a Richard Nixon mask gave me a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. That convinced me that reading totally sucks ass and I have never read another book again.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 15, 2016, 10:48:10 AM
Quote from: Norgy on February 15, 2016, 04:50:37 AM
Anyone remember "The Wind In The Willows"?
I think that was the first novel with some political message I read.
A Frog! A Frog!
I found this gem. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhK50Lg8hFM
Anyone else remember Paddington the bear?
I am not sure what the first books were the my parents read to me, but I have a memory of a book of folk/ferry tales (Brothers Grimm style) that my mother used to read to me. I remember Hansel and Gretel along with Little Red Riding Hood being in the mix.
I also remember my mother reading the "I Want to Know About" books. https://www.etsy.com/listing/49972440/set-of-18-vintage-i-want-to-know-about
They even saved that series for my kids, but by that time the books were comically out of date.
Lady Bird stuff, likely Janet and John.
But on my own accord I got hooked on Enid Blyton stuff at age six/seven
How old were you when you boarded the boat Jo Jo?
Quote from: garbon on February 15, 2016, 04:18:08 AM
Quote from: Jaron on February 15, 2016, 02:55:41 AM
Quote from: PDH on February 14, 2016, 09:40:04 PM
Probably "What do People do All Day?"
Richard Scarry was a fucking genius.
His books were never very frightening. Goosebumps was better.
You shouldn't have been reading his books by the time you moved on to Goosebumps. :console:
:console:
I think it was...
So you WERE born after the alphabet was invented?
No, he's just a slow learner.
Quote from: Norgy on February 15, 2016, 08:30:49 PM
So you WERE born after the alphabet was invented?
Which alphabet are we talking about? :ph34r:
Quote from: grumbler on February 15, 2016, 10:00:14 PM
Quote from: Norgy on February 15, 2016, 08:30:49 PM
So you WERE born after the alphabet was invented?
Which alphabet are we talking about? :ph34r:
:hug: :lol: