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Q&U: Your first favorite book.

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ValerieT2
Apr 12, 5:16 PM

In third grade, I read "A Wrinkle in Time" twice! I loved the time travel aspect and I identified with Meg, the main character.

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MarissaD2
Apr 12, 8:04 PM

My favorite book as a child was "Harold and the Purple Crayon." I loved the idea of being able to draw the world they way I wanted and no one telling me different. I did it as a project for school once and it just seemed to stick with me.

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Jacqui
Apr 13, 7:27 AM

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the first book I remember reading cover to cover. My first-grade teacher started reading it aloud to us on the first day of school and I loved it so much that I ended up reading it myself before she finished, followed by the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia. It completely captivated me & I've been a voracious reader ever since.

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MariaC
Apr 14, 11:30 AM

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World :)

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Audrey Lynn
Apr 14, 11:32 AM

Black Beauty. I could NOT stop reading, so there I was, under the blankets with a flashlight at some weird hour of the night, when Ginger died. My sobbing woke my parents, who thought something bad had happened. Of course, it had. I mean, geez, Ginger *died.* We were still on Okinawa, then, so I was somewhere between 7 and 8 years old.

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Travis French
Apr 14, 12:09 PM

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

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Gerber Ink
Apr 14, 12:26 PM

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. It was also my first overdue library book because it took a little longer than usual to read! I'm still a Jules Verne fan in adulthood.

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Heidi Cardenas
Apr 14, 1:26 PM

The first "big" book I read on my own was "Gone with the Wind" when I was 11. I was curious about it because my mom read it and once I started reading it, I remember thinking how different the times and people in the story were from my life.

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JuliaN
Apr 14, 4:23 PM

Wow, I'm such a "soiled dove" of books that I can't remember my first. Probably fairy tales. I do remember loving "Wuthering Heights" in junior high and crying each of the four times I read it.

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RebeccaH
Apr 14, 6:50 PM

I think the first books I remember reading out loud with my mom were Robert McCloskey's "Blueberries for Sal," and "One Morning in Maine." For a long time as well, the pre-bedtime read-aloud choice by my brother and I was the "Little House" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Once I discovered the library, there was no keeping track of me! But I do remember Stevenson's "Treasure Island" being the first classic I read and re-read on my own.
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