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May 12, 2008 11:32 AM EDT (Updated: May 12, 2008 11:37 AM EDT)

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If you had to name the book from your childhood that had the biggest influence on you, what book would it be?

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Doc, in the middle, holding on... Curmudgeon esq. May 12, 2008, 11:41am EDT

I wouldn't know where to start... I was reading and looking up 'hard' words in a dictionary at age five.

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David W. May 12, 2008, 11:50am EDT

I cannot remember any particular book, but I do recall with warmth my father reading me to sleep with the works of some of the world's finest poets.

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Peter Joseph Swanson May 12, 2008, 12:13pm EDT

How the Grinch Stole Christmas was an early favorite (but I had many)

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Vicky Duggins May 12, 2008, 12:18pm EDT

"Gone With The Wind." The summer before I started school, every afternoon when my Mom and I lay down on a pallet on the living room floor for a nap, she read a chapter aloud to me. It taught me that great big 'grown up' books could be fascinating.

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Laura C. May 12, 2008, 12:22pm EDT

the little house on the prairie books...they are the first ones I read by myself...still love them

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Stephanie B. May 12, 2008, 12:29pm EDT

"Matilda and her Kittens," my first chapter book. I was in first grade, I think, and it was all about a black cat and her three kittens that became lost and had to be fetched or make their way back home. I read a great deal as a child, but that's the first book I remember and I almost wore it out. It started a life-ling habit.

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J R B. May 12, 2008, 12:41pm EDT

Aesop Fables, we didn't have many bools back then.

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Karen Lerner May 12, 2008, 1:08pm EDT

Probably a tie between the bible and grimm's fairytales.

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Dan H. May 12, 2008, 5:31pm EDT

"You Are Different And That's Bad". Just kidding. I couldn't help myself.

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Doc, in the middle, holding on... Curmudgeon esq. May 12, 2008, 5:42pm EDT

folks.. I can tell you what GOT me to reading.... on Sunday afternoons the Folks would turn off the teevee and pick up National Geographic and kick back and just READ for an hour or two... i wanted to do that SO BAD, I taught myself how.

Let your kids/grandkids SEE you read if you want THEM to..

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dark faery May 12, 2008, 9:00pm EDT

I think it was the Ramona Quimby series that got me started. That first book I read she was the same age as me, and if I remember right, she was starting a new school same as I was.

I read every book in the series after that.

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juley g. May 12, 2008, 9:13pm EDT

Jane Emily by Patricia Clapp. After reading that book I just couldn't read enough! I always had my head in a book. It really sparked my interest in reading!

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El Toro Bravo de Amor May 12, 2008, 10:35pm EDT

Harold's Purple Crayon.

The lesson I took away from it is that your imagination is your ticket into and out of any situation. So far, so good. ;)

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Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom May 12, 2008, 10:40pm EDT

Before 9 or 10 it would be:

Winnie the Pooh & House at Pooh Corner, the Freddy the Pig series by Walter R Brooks, and Robert Heinlein's juvenile science fiction.

Since I was a boy, I read the Henry Huggins books and didn't read Ramona Quimby till I read them to our daughter.

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Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom May 12, 2008, 10:47pm EDT

The guy who did Harold and the Purple Crayon did a comic strip called "Barnaby" about a little boy who had a bunch of magical friends and acquaintances that his parents couldn't see. It was mildly surreal. Just looked on Amazon. All the Barnaby anthologies are out of print and cost serious $.

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ines r. May 12, 2008, 11:19pm EDT

With deepest regret I have to say that
I started me love affair with books late in my
live, but If I can dream with a childhood of
Sunday afternoon's 1 or 2 hour reading frenzies I will
say Dr. Seuss' "The Pale Green Pants" and "Horton hears a who"

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El Gato Gordo May 12, 2008, 11:28pm EDT

The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, because it promotes "bad behavior".

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Monica H. May 12, 2008, 11:42pm EDT

"Are you there God, it's me Margaret."---this was when I was old enough to read on my own.

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Abby N. May 13, 2008, 2:02am EDT

I can't remember the name of it, but it was a nursery ryhme book. Learned how to read from it.

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Abby N. May 13, 2008, 2:02am EDT

Thanks for posting to imagepoints group :)

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juley g. May 13, 2008, 8:21am EDT

Jane Emily by Patricia Clapp. After reading that book I just couldn't read enough! I always had my head in a book. It really sparked my interest in reading!

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 10:58am EDT

I love this question... where to start...? I was an avid reader.

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 10:59am EDT

The Betsy Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace.

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 10:59am EDT

The Danny Orlis books, a Christian series set in the north woods of Minnesota.

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 10:59am EDT

The Little House on the Prairie Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 11:00am EDT

A Wrinkle in Time by Madelaine L'Engle.

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Sherrie H. May 14, 2008, 11:00am EDT

All those little historical books about the childhood days of famous people.

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Carol Lloyd May 15, 2008, 5:37am EDT

wouldn't know

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Peter C. Frank May 15, 2008, 9:44pm EDT

I can't remember any one book in particular, but I would say that the greatest influence, in terms of books, from my childhood was the fact that, starting around the age of 2.5 or so, my grandmother would read a book with me every night before I went to bed. She would point to the words as she read them. I think that's where my love of reading comes from. Great question!

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