Post the 1st Book, you can remember being able to read YOURSELF as a child....
 

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Great story, but cant fucking remember how it went at all...

(1972)

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Really.... :) Still have it too. It was my big brothers book. Not sure of when it was published but its ancient.

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It was from a set of about 20 books with stories of pirates that they used for teaching reading at school.

I loved the Berenstein Bears and could not understand why my dad found them less hilarious than I did. This is what you must never do!

kid books were for babies even when I was 5 so never had an inclination to read any when I had a choice. Robinson Crusoe.

Borrowed Black creeped the shit out of me and I loved it.

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That's not the cover my book had. Shame, it looks like it's out of print now.

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Filled with short stories.

I still remember "The Boy Who Drew Cats" - horror literature for kids. Scared the crap outta me when I read it as a kid.

edit - still have it somewhere in a box in the office.

For me it was Berenstain Bears books. I had a shit ton of them.

I used to read this to my son every night, and add our pets names into the story.

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I like the updated version:

My uncle had collected every one of the Hardy Boys detective books - and he passed them down to me when I was a kid. There was around 50 in the series at the time. They really hooked me on reading back then...read all of 'em...many of them twice.

It wasn't until years later I found out the author Leslie McFarlane (writing under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon)...was a fellow Canuck. Always thought that was way cool.

Still recall the first one I read:

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Oh! My grandmother had kept all of my uncle's books from his childhood, so when I visited, I would read them. I got to keep a few. The House on the Cliff was my favourite. I also got a bit into Nancy Drew (thanks Mom) but she was a bit lame compared to the Boys. Trixie Belden was kickass, though.

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That was a good one I recall. It's so long ago...probably 40 years ago or more. I've since passed all the books to my nephew - and he's actively reading 'em. I've always credited those books as helping with vocabulary and spelling development - and always felt rather indebted to my uncle for the hand-me-downs.

We even had a few of the oldie brown-label books...

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You got me..........................


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this was my favourite!

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still wanna try one of those ice sail boats

Yes.... :thumbsup

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= Puss in boots :upsidedow

nice one

That cat in the hat as well.

But those were books my parents made me read.

First book I ever read for pleasure as a kid was called " Prison Planet"

Henny Penny is a hen :)

I read that one in grade four. Scared the poops out of me but not nearly as much as The Shining or It!

I think it was a kids book called "Katy and the big snow"

It was about a snowplow named katy, who goes out and plows everyone out when a huge snowstorm covers the town.

I was too young at the time to see all the drug and sexual overtones.

Winnie the Pooh

grade 5, can't seem to remember anything earlier.. think first book would be beginning of fourth grade about

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To busy playing hockey outside to read ;)

A book like this was sitting on my dads coffee table

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Awesome album covers from the 60's and 70's

But my faves where Choose your own adventure. Loved those!

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Spot was a cool dog (<rolls eyes>)

...and let me guess, you only read it for the articles?

HAHA me too!

Don't know, but first novel was Jules Vern, 20,000 leagues