My first book (725 views, 26 replies)
senior master
What a great start Liz ... Did you manage to read all of them?
My first memories of reading a book (I now realise) became a life long passion for the detective novel, film and series (Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot etc) ...
@fortunate1 Not sure if you are referring to the other WoOZ books or the one above. I put a link on your wall for this one.
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The one I remember the most from my young childhood is this collection of poems from the father of Pooh Bear.
Now We Are Six - A. A. Milne
This one is still recited by my mother.
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The first book I remember reading was a collection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen.
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master
TRUTH: Little Black Sambo was tucked in my diaper bag. SAMBO was the grouping of first letters in my families names, and thus the name of our boat as well. I remember REALLY liking that tiger chasing the little boy around a palm tree... but, yeah... we aren't gonna go anywhere near THAT book. ((May it RIP)) On the lighter side of favorites however -- I hauled Kahlil Gibran's "Leaves of Grass" around during my hippy-teens, backed by several english papers written on topic. It stands as a treasured favorite that still moves me profoundly. ((I bequeathed that tattered hardcover book to my son who then reviewed it during his school years. Still cherished. xx0x0xx))
master
I used to read all her series but this was the first one. I don't read them anymore but they got me started on my love for reading.
guru
The earliest books I remember, beyond the Dr. Seuss books (did you know most of us have been pronouncing his name wrong, look it up) are The Spaceship Under The Apple Tree, and Andy Buckram's Tin Men 
These led me to Robert A Heinlein and a lifetime love of science fiction.
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master
yes,i loved all the old science fiction too--my dad read all the pulp magazines/.i was supposed to read ALL THE OZ BOOKS when got money,i told myself. there is one i never got or read,supposed to be"the Oz party book."??(forgot name.never got it.then then i failed at most goals.--got old!!. 
whether or not you do anything right,you still get OLD.--oh,and people blame you for things you have no control over. 
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My first book didn't have a proper cover anymore. In Ireland we actually were too poor to have any of that with hand me downs. (I'm not joking.) They were falling to bits but were all the more precious to me.
The first book I can ever remember reading with a proper cover was James and the Giant Peach. I slept with that book. It was like someone knew what it was like to be an orphan and it felt like a letter of hope to me.
@ Have you ever read Revolting Rhymes by Dahl?
It was (and still is) one of my favourites.
guru
Can't say I truly remember the 1st book I read so instead I'll fall back to the 1st one I can remember that really impressed me which was The Outsiders in about 4th grade. As a city kid it told tales I knew I'd never otherwise know about life in a city far larger than the one I called home.
Lo and behold, 30 or 40yrs later it even became a movie 
@mrkim56 one of my favorite movies as a kid. I would go to school and try to figure out who were soshes and who were greasers.
master
The little vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. Loved it so much that I brought a new copy a few years ago just to relive those childhood memories.
Butchered in films and the author did milk it for all it's worth with, if memory serves, 15 English sequels but the first few are just magical to me.
master
I've been a lifelong reader, started when I was 4. Is it weird I can't remember my first? (After "Dick and Jane", of course...)
But I remember spending some serious time with the "How and Why Wonder Books". God, I loved that series, taught me all of my first "science facts" before I went to school.
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And this book, in particular, convinced me I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up (age 6)
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I can't remember my 1st book as I was read and read many when little(so very long ago )
I will mention My son Joshua's favorite book that he made me read over and over(over 25 yrs ago) It was called "Once Upon A Potty"
Here is a new sound one youtu.be/GvbyL-ehF_o
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master
The very first book I picked out to read. Even as a child I hated musicals but the book was fabulous.