What was the first book you read yourself

[Diznotyzed]

Not sure, but I do remember reading the Weekly Readers my older sister brought home when she started first grade.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I believe it was called Something Blue , it was done in the 197'0's

 

[Breezy_Carol]

The Cat in the Hat

 

[Neesy228]

Mine was One Fish, Two Fish, Red fish, Blue Fish. I loved Dr. Seuss.

 

[Chupaca bruh]

That is a very hard question to answer. I don’t want to count “Go DogGo” so will have to say Bambi By Felix Salten. An awesome book that is intimate but epic. It makes you feel that a long tome has passed but is not a long book to read. A bot mor realistic
than the Disney movie.

 

[Lynn CC]

Dick and Jane

 

[NYCgrrl]

Probably a Dr. Seuss book

 

[kaytieeldr]

I remember the Dick and Jane books with their dog Spot in first grade.
I also loved the book "Put Me In The Zoo" when I was little.

I remember acting out a Dick/Jane/Sally book in first grade, and the teacher kept replacing Sally because nobody was doing it right. Sally was at the kitchen counter, standing on a chair. Problem was, standing on a classroom chair put your knees at table level, which was silly.

As for the first book I read? Really? More than a half century ago? In an entirely different millennium? I dunno, probably a Dr. Seuss book.

 

[Kitty 34]

Dick and Jane and when I got reading a lot better, Bambi. I still have that book btw.

 

[Colleen27]

The first one I remember is Go Dog Go. My great-aunt brought it as a gift when I was 3, and I found out years later that she did it because my grandmother had been bragging about how early I'd learned to read and she thought I'd actually just memorized the books I had at my grandmother's house. So she gave me a new one, and I sat down and read it to them both.

 

[scrump]

First chapter book I read by myself was probably "Ramona Quimby Age 8" by Beverly Cleary.

First real book I read on my own - I don't remember.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I don't remember the exact first book I read, but I do remember having both of these:

"Are you my mother"

("We Help Daddy" too!)

and reading these in school:

Dick and Jane

Eloise Wilkin is still one of my favorite artists!
http://literature4kids.com/eloise-wilkin-illustrator-little-golden-books/

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am pretty sure it was "Go Dog Go"

 

[disneyseniors]

I can't remember the name, but it was a Bobsey Twins Book. I loved them. Also Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Now you know how old I am still reading a lot, but now Pendergast series by Lincoln/Child.
Thanks, OP, for this thread. I have never thought of this before....good memories.

 

[fly girl]

I have no idea of my first book. I remember Dick and Jane in first grade class, but I think I was already reading by then. My guess would be Cat in the Hat.

However, I do remember reading Amelia Bedelia all the time as a kid. I loved the predicaments she would get her self into.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I remember lots of favorite Golden Books at home (? Chicken Little maybe) and definitely Dick and Jane and Spot in school.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I think this was DH's: