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What was the FIRST book you ever read

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JoolsToo · 19/04/2005 18:08

chosen by yourself - not school

Mine was Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

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flamesparrow · 21/04/2005 08:13

Me too smurfgirl!!!

I was only telling Psychomum last night that he has a stomach with sections... his worm section could be full up, but still have lots of room in his mouse section

ghosty · 21/04/2005 04:09

Mine was the Magic Faraway Tree too
I got it out of the library the other week to read to DS but he wasn't really into it ...

Smurfgirl · 21/04/2005 02:50

Plop the Owl.

I vividly remember reading out the first sentence of it to my mum in the car.

toddlermum · 19/04/2005 20:15

Thanks ever so much motherinferior - off to find it on Amazon - sick person that I am!

NannyJo · 19/04/2005 20:14

blubber, when i was about 11ish i think. Very sordid at that age!!!

motherinferior · 19/04/2005 20:14

I've got Carbonel and the Kingdom of Carbonel at my parents' house, Soupy.

motherinferior · 19/04/2005 20:13

It was Strawwelpeter, very scary translations from the German, (Shock Headed Peter), utterly horrible, gave both my father and me nightmares as children.

No idea what I read first - I read pretty well whatever was to hand.

toddlermum · 19/04/2005 20:11

bump re questio for Dahlia - or anyone else who knows!!

toddlermum · 19/04/2005 18:48

Dahlia - can you remember who those books were by - have just had a look on Amazon but cannot find.

TIA
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donnie · 19/04/2005 18:45

topsy and tim books

SoupDragon · 19/04/2005 18:28

Who remembers the books about a cat called Carbonel? I loved though. They go for a fortune on Ebay and I want one!

compo · 19/04/2005 18:25

I loved the Milly Molly Mandy stories too

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JoolsToo · 19/04/2005 18:24

what about Bunty? The Four Marys!

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iota · 19/04/2005 18:23

no idea but I used to read the Judy comic

spykid · 19/04/2005 18:22

lol at porn mag!

PuffTheMagicDragon · 19/04/2005 18:21

Naughty Amelia Jane (I think).

Sounds like a porn mag .

compo · 19/04/2005 18:20

and the Supergran books

Dahlia · 19/04/2005 18:20

spykid, it was horrendous. Another story was of a boy who wouldn't eat his soup, so he got really thin, like a piece of paper, then died. Like I said though, my granny was one freaky mother...

compo · 19/04/2005 18:19

ooh yes Turquoise I loved Gobbolino

Demented · 19/04/2005 18:19

It was probably something Enid Blyton but one of the books that really stands out from my childhood was Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Inglis Wilder. Bought it in the local junk shop, great book!

SoupDragon · 19/04/2005 18:19

Magic Faraway Tree

Gobbledigook · 19/04/2005 18:18

Probably Teddy Robinson stories. Also The Borrowers and The Family from One End Street.

turquoise · 19/04/2005 18:17

Gobbolino the witches cat - can't remember who by.

compo · 19/04/2005 18:17

Ah found it Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat - published in 1984 so I would have been 10

spykid · 19/04/2005 18:17

Good grief dahlia, enough to scar you for life!!!