When I was a child, my favorite book was... You're kidding?!

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my husband is also a dictionary reader- he always gets a word of the day emailed to him and he saves them all....
I remember one night will laying in bed- he asked me " What letter of the alphabet has the most entries in the dictionary???" another night " WHat is the longest word in the dictionary???" I am sure that he could go on and on about the dictionary.........
makes me laugh. I have learned to deal with it..
Michele

I used to Dicionaries and Encyclopedias. I still would if I could find them. I like reading manuals for videogames. I read the manual for the PS2 because I was board.

I also read the dictionary. that was in grade four, when I was 10. In grade six, I read university biology textbooks. As a result (because I have a near photographic memory for the printed word) I have almost a second year university education. I read Little House on the Prairie (the whole series) in Kindergarten and remember being shocked that no one ever told the kids not to stare off into space or to smile more. I read Watership Down in grade six.... I read Anne McCaffrey's stuff from Grade six until now...

I also read every instruction manual in the house and all the ingredient lists on our food. Don't read your food, please! You'll never want to eat again.

I also still play "The Dictionary Game" where I open a page of a random dictionary (Mmy house has eight) and read a page. I then use every word I don't know in a sentence the next day, using the definitions in that dictionary.

In addition to encyclopedias, one of my favorites was the bible- Leviticus and Deuteronomy. I loved reading all the odd, interesting little rules and laws. Even now, I have a tendency to ask or look for the list or book of rules when staying or working at a new place. It isn't exactly that I intend to follow them to the letter...I just like to know what they are, what the expectations are.

Great post, Magic!! !

Nothing pleased me more as a child than to sit in some corner reading a book!

I loved reading about geography and history as a child, and I loved reading biographies. I didn't get into fiction until I was in junior high, although I was reading fiction when I was 9 and 10.

When I was very small, one of my favorite books was "Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever." My mother hated it because I made her read every damned word in the book. Mother also disliked any book that said, "let's read it again" at the end because I would make her, too.

I was also known to read a book over and over until I knew it by heart (once when I was in college, I recalled a book I read about Japan when I was a little girl, and in college, I saw that exact same book again, and when I looked at the pictures, I thought, "I remember the goldfish seller!," from so many years before), and I also could wear out paperback books very quickly. I still recall things I read very clearly, unless if the book didn't make an impression on me.

Another dictionary reader here. And encyclopedias. We had a 40 volume set of encyclopedias when I was, hmmm, about 10 or 11 years old. I used to sit and read and read and read....

I had a Grandmother that used to tell me, "Learn something new every day" and "There's always more to learn" and that old classic, "The more I know, the more I know I don't know." I took it to heart.

I enjoyed reading National Geographic magazines aas a kid

To add what I said before, I was also a dictionary reader, encyclopedia reader, map reader, and overall fan of non-fiction and non-fiction based fiction.

Pears cyclopedia was mine when I was young... I used to read and re-read bits of it over and over... particularly the bits about subatomic particles and the rules for games and sports for some reason.

Later I progressed on to the Encyclopedia Britannica and the OED in the school library. Even now I have a habit - when I'm at someone elses house - of reading all their reference books.

I must admit I feel jealous of AS kids growing up now, with the internet to hand it's so much easier to get everything you need to know about a current obssesion so quickly

i liked national geographic too! we also had this set of 1950's encyclopedias that had a really hilariously misguided section on ethno-anthropology. i feel lucky that my parents had some interesting books in the house.

the first book that really made me want to learn to read was the ladybird book 'forest fire!'. my next fascination and the first book i ever bought myself (with my 7th birthday money) was the european guide to the seashore which i still have (though it's a bit worse for wear with dried jellyfish residue on the jellyfish pages).

For me it was Roald Dahl's 'Revolting Rhymes', my children too adore the book and it's well read now.

I also liked Enid Blyton and A. A. Milne, in fact I'm still a Winnie the Pooh fanatic - hey how would I put a Pooh Bear Avatar under my name? Can anyone help please?

Debs

My favorite movie as a kid was David Lynch's 'Elephant Man' because I could identify with the feeling of never fitting in . . . hows that for predictive?!

I used to read my Dad's college biology book over and over and over and over - I really liked these flip chart things that had different clear pages and showed the anatomy of a turtle and a frog in overlays - like the skin, then the muscle layer, then the upper organs, then the lower oragans, then the skeleton . . .
I still think biology is the most facinating thing in the world . . .

As a teenager I got really interested in true crime - which I still enjoy reading about and watching shows on Discovery Channel (the ones on network TV are too sensationalistic for me) about . . .

i read a lot on storms, weather patterns and clouds.
other than that it was roald dahl and dr suess

The books I read when I was younger were encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers and other material with facts and figures.

My favourite book (well two books actually) is probably Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass.

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