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[Pat]

Marie Bostwick (http://mariebostwick.com/) and I want to know the FIRST book you read.. the one you can remember.  I remember an alphabet book.... now you KNOW why I love letters so much!

At the end of the month we will pick a random number winner to receive the prize! BOTH Marie's sewing books and a goodie packet from ME!

Also visit Marie's website! http://mariebostwick.com/

[nquilt]

Dick and Jane at age 4.  I continue to read lot's of books seventy years later!!

[MarieBostwick]

Can't remember the first book I ever read on my own, but I do remember the day I got my very own library card. In my town, you had to be able to write your first and last name to get a card and boy! I practiced like crazy to master this skill.  When the goal was met, I nagged my mom to take me to the library the same day.  I was four and, at the time, the library's youngest individual cardholder.  The book I checked out that day was "Hop On Pop".  I'd read it before, but Dr. Suess was always a favorite.

[bjjiminy]

I can't remember...but some of the first books were Dr. Dan and Nurse Nancy, The Little Engine That Could, Something about 12 Princesses, where each one was more beautiful than the next. I never could figure that out how that worked.

[kayahr]

One of many Golden Books.  One about Jesus or Bambi was probably first.  I had my own bookshelf and rocking chair in a corner of the living room.  I just remember sitting with my Daddy in his big rocker and he read to me.   

Kay Ahr in NV 

[Cindy in TN]

I would say either Curious George or one of the Babar books.  I loved Curious George so much that my mother still calls me "George" today.

[Pat]

George is so cute! Do you collect monkey fabric now???  Here are my favorite alphabet books, which I still have!

[lindabee]

My first trip to the town library was with my dad.  I felt like I was in heaven. The first book I checked out was about an Eskimo boy,  I can't remember the name.  There was a whole series and I read them all.  I can't even find any info by googling.  I went through the Bobbsey Twins, and all the Hardy boy mysteries.  As a Jr. in high school, I got a job at the town library -- it was bigger and in a brand new building.  And then I learned that the library was heaven.  There was a little old lady who would come in every other Wed. night when I worked and she always checked out 20 books.  She would tell me what ones were really good, and turned me on to Victoria Holt.  Don't seem to read much now days, and that's sad.

[jean]

Like many others, I really can't remember the first book I read, but I do know I loved going to the library, and I am sure I read all the Bobsy twins books, and a series about a student nurse...........gosh, what was the name of that girl?

[dawnstew]

I remember a book about Hats for Sale that I was intrigued with and would always check out from the library.  The first book that I read as a young girl that really left an impression on me was The Diary of Ann Frank. 

[MarieBostwick]

Dawn, I think I know the book you're talking about.  It was called CAPS FOR SALE and about how a bunch of monkeys snuck up on a cap salesman while he was sleeping, stole all the caps, and ran up in the trees with them.  My oldest boy loved that book!  His kindergarten teacher gave it to him as a gift and we used to read it all the time.  Sweet story.

[TheaM1]

OMG - I did a LOT of reading as a child - but I can't really remember back that far! 

My first readers were the Dick & Jane series, and I always liked Sally - she was my favorite!

I had a ton of Little Golden books, but with 9 younger siblings and 42 cousins, things didn't last very long.

I do remember some of the books I read in elementary school - one about a Canadian Mounty's wife called Mrs Mike - and White Fang by Jack London, of course, Black Beauty, and in High School I met James Michener about the time HAWAII was in the theaters so I read several of his, including POLAND, but that was so much later.  I'm still trying to work my way through more of his books, and I want to read his autobiography.  He is still my favorite author - very humble, did all his own research, and he was a great philanthropist to boot.

[quiltsquared]

There is no way I can remember the first book I read. I have vague memories of Dick and Jane, The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew. For some reason I remember my 5th grade teacher reading Caddie Woodlawn aloud to the class, and I distinctly remember one phrase from that book: "If at first you don't fricassee, fry, fry again."
Jo Anne in Spokane

[jwats925]

I know I "read" lots of books before I started school, but the first I really remember reading were the Dick and Jane books in 1st grade when we learned to read.  That sure was a long time ago!

[withthreadinhand]

Shoot....I can only remember the last book I read because it is sitting here waiting to be posted on Paperbackswap...LOL  In fifth grade I was big time in biographies. I would read ANY of them.... One day I was so into a book that I hid it inside my social studies book.  Without me knowing it, the whole class went to lunch, recess and returned to the room.  I was still holding up my social studies book and reading...LOL The teacher thought it was hilarious... 

Was it Cherry Ames, Student Nurse?  I loved that series. 

My favorite book of all time?  Gone With the Wind.  I have read it 10 or 12 times. Hated the movie, love the book.  I was given my father-in-laws hard bound copy when he passed away in 92.

Favorite author?  Pearl S. Buck and I am starting to get a little collection of her hard back books.

Nancy
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