Mine was Lord Rex - The Lion Who Wished, by David McKee (who also did the UK animated series King Rollo). It was grebt but a bit scary due to Lord R wishing himself into a grotesque monster.
A search for the book cover comes up blank but does reveal my dream vehicle:
http://www.ksr.corvallis.or.us/rex/RexFiles/daVinciDays2000/daVinci2000MJ01/006.jpg
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― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link
there was an enormous park, like a hedge maze, with all sorts of hedge animals and things.
walking around the hedge maze were families of euclidean solids, like spheres and cubes and pyramidi with arms and legs and cartoon faces. they were red and yellow and blue and other cheery colors.
the book had lots of different panorama landscape drawings of euclidean solid families hanging out and working and being in school, etc.
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― Ray (Ray), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
*on the merits of being punctual. puppy misses out dessert due to tardiness.
** contained the phrase "one dog is enough but two are not too many," which my father would later come to regret.
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― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
(And Teddy.)
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― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
That was all the kind of thing I'd been reading a couple of years before, so no chance. They made me read out the first couple of pages and answer questions on some of the words before they would let me take it with me. That's why this one stuck in my mind.
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― misshajim (strand), Monday, 27 December 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
It's interesting to see how many of us remember reading 'The Hobbit'. When I was seven and some fraction and was living in a small town called Wawona at the southern border of Yosemite National Park, my father and I set off on a three day hike from the high country back down to our house. Our first night we spent at this ski lodge
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albeit in early summer and my father gave me 'The Hobbit' to read by the light of the Coleman lanterns. The next night, we camped in the middle of nowhere in the backcountry and after dinner, my father took one of the cans that had contained part of our dinner and, by melting its base, anchored a candle in it, creating a makeshift candlestick. He said I could read until the candle was burned out. So, there I was surrounded by the soft soughing of the wind through the trees, with the faintly perceptible outlines of the Sierran peaks visible in the moonlight, passionately reading away and looking up occasionally to see how much candle I had left. That candle with that book in that place was one of the best gifts I ever got.
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
When I was seven, I was too young to read The Hobbit.
I like Richard Scarry.
― the bellefox, Monday, 27 December 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
And which are your favourite volumes?
I recall a Big Rainy Day Colouring Book, I think. Also What Do People Do All Day?
― the bellefox, Monday, 27 December 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I still have that copy of the book, in two parts, though it's missing the cover.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 31 December 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Books I remember taking out of the library in 1st grade: Pippi Longstocking and The Lonely Doll.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 31 December 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
The first book I know with certainty that I read was the Dick and Jane Reader used the beginning reader in my first grade classroom. I was 5 years old and before attending first grade I did not read independently, but was only read to. Soon I was a voracious reader of such gripping tales as One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Go, Dog, Go!, and I, Mouse.
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