What was your VERY FIRST favorite book? When you were just a wee little version of yourself (now I'm picturing you all as like, the Muppet Baby versions of yourselves) what was the first book that you just couldn't get enough of?
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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Wednesdays in the Blog Me MAYbe Blogfest opens things up to YOU, my dear, dear friends who I have never met. I'm already seeing some great questions pop up, so before all the good ones are taken:
What was your VERY FIRST favorite book? When you were just a wee little version of yourself (now I'm picturing you all as like, the Muppet Baby versions of yourselves) what was the first book that you just couldn't get enough of?
What was your VERY FIRST favorite book? When you were just a wee little version of yourself (now I'm picturing you all as like, the Muppet Baby versions of yourselves) what was the first book that you just couldn't get enough of?
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The first book I remember falling absolutely in love with was Judy Blume's JUST AS LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER. I read my paperback so many times its spine split!
ReplyDeleteGreat question, Mrs. S!
Ooh, Judy Blume--classic. I've come to love her tween and teen writing later in life: my mom gave me Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret when I was like eight, way before I was ready for it, and so I carried the idea that Judy Blume was Too Old For Me for way too long. (But I loved all the Fudge books to death!)
DeleteI remember being very young and loving A Dog Called Kitty. It's the first book I remember not being able to put down. :)
ReplyDeleteAww...sounds like a sweet, sad story. I definitely read plenty of "boy and dog" books...they never seemed to end well. What is it about that genre?
DeleteThe first book I remember really loving is A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I was so upset when I found out they were making a movie because I was sure they'd ruin it and I was fiercely attached to the story. (I ended up loving the movie--the 1995 version--too.)
ReplyDeleteLOVE. This was an early favorite for me too. But I have a deep, deep bias against movies that cast girls with blonde curly hair as characters who very specifically have non-curly brown hair (like I do). So the movie was something of a disappointment. (There's a version from the '80s, I think from TV, that I like a lot better.)
DeleteOh goodness me, I think the first book I would say was my absolute favourite is a book called Tickey, about a girl who was orphaned in South Africa.
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me a lot then of my grandmother who was an orphan, and I read that book over and over again ...
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Wow, what a powerful connection! Is your family from South Africa? How did you come across the book?
DeleteComtesse de Ségur :D and Judy Blume....Wonderful, wonderful books!
ReplyDeleteFrom the Comtesse de Ségur, it was Les Caprices de Giselle!
Some adventures in Google Translate make that book sound pretty great! Also, I discovered a piece of art by Joseph Cornell that seems to have been inspired by it: http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=113203&PICTAUS=TRUE
DeleteI must be getting old. I can't remember that far back! LOL
ReplyDeleteAs a child a little older than a Muppet Baby, I loved Little Women. I must have read it a million times. (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration.)
Oooh, great one! I had a few false starts with it but by the time I was ten I had started reading it every year at summer camp.
DeleteYeah this is an easy one. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine! I was obsessed with this book. Great question!
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Love that one! It totally blew my mind that you could do that with Cinderella.
DeleteOh gosh. I don't remember a whole lot of what I read as a kid, but I do remember that Grover book - The Monster at the End of this Book (or something like that). I had to buy a copy for my own children. :) Great question!
ReplyDeleteThat book is such a great readaloud! I love Grover :)
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