I still love rereading A Little Princess and Little Women. Total comfort reads.

I only read the first Black Stallion.

My favorite horse books were written by Marguerite Henry--Misty of Chincoteague and its sequel, of course, but I equally loved Justin Morgan Had a Horse, King of the Wind, and Born to Trot.

I know! It's nutty but fun.

Farley, Henry, and Terhune--lots of happy memories there. Okay, time to hit the secondhand bookshop. Maybe I can find a copy of King of the Wind.

Comfort reading: Lake Wobegon days. I've worn out two copies from all my(metaphorical) tripping.

Anyone see anything weird about this?

Something like that happened to me recently. I finally decided to Google for the first book I ever read. I could remember that it was about a cat in space, and that the cover was blue and featured (surprise, surprise), a cat in a space helmet.

Which led me to Space Cat!

Ha! I read Space Cat. I remembered the cover instantly after Fred described it.

I finally decided to Google for the first book I ever read.

I have no idea what the first book I ever read was.

I remember the first time I could read - I was sitting on my mom's lap, and she was reading The Wind in the Willows and suddenly I found that I could tell where she was on the page because the words matched what she was saying.

I don't remember it, but my mom has told me about when she discovered that I could read. She came home from work, saw me sitting on the floor reading a book out loud, and thought, "Oh, how cute--she's pretending to read that book, when she has obviously memorized it from us reading it to her." That's when she saw it was a new book, and she hadn't read it to me yet. She asked Dad if he'd read it to me, and he hadn't. She pulled out the flash cards, which I zoomed through, turned to Dad, and told him that I'd apparently taught myself to read.

I don't have any distinct memories of having reading be an unusual activity for me. My earliest book-related memory was Christmas 1972 at Grandma's house, when my godmother (Aunt Evelyn) brought me my present. I was stunned when I ripped off the paper, because she gave me the entire boxed set of Little House books. I'd never gotten that many books at once before!! My mom had to stop me from immediately pulling out the first book to read.

I read this thread and then I went to the library and then I couldn't remember any of the stuff I'd decided I was going to get. So I came home with a bunch of kayaking stuff. Inefficient.