What was the first chapter book you loved as a kid? Pic related.

Dubliners

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>>9592672
Was this the copy you read? I always fell in love with books because of how the older copies looked. Pic related, this is how I picture /lit/ too.

>>9592677
That was before The Hardy Boys but after Tom Swift and The Rover Boys, right?

>>9592679
Wonderful artwork. What is it? Is it a picture book or a chapter book?

We had the school library where we had the matte blue books and the shiny flashlight blue books. They were extremely popular so you always had a waiting list on which hardy boys books to read. Luckily I discovered them in third grade when I moved to that school after the other boys had read most of them, so I was able to read the earlier books since the other boys were on the later ones.

I always preferred the matte blue books, not the flashlight shiny books.

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gary paulsen is the best childrens book author

>>9592723
I loved Hatchet as a kid. I remember hating one of the sequels and liking another one.

>>9592689
If I'm not mistaken that picture is from the little golden book giant (or golden treasury book?) Caroline and her Friends, which I absolutely loved as a child, and which was priced through the roof on ABE and other used sources about 5 years ago. Not op of image.

>>9592672
There aren't enough people named Fenton nowadays

>>9592672
Redwall, A Clockwork Orange, Ender's Game and RA Salvatore novels

25 years later they have not aged well

>>9592672
i remember i was into the series of unfortunate events. only read one hardy boys and i dont remember it being very good.

>>9592761
I just read it to my 6 year old, she was mesmerized.

Reading Island of Blue Dolphins now, not as well received.

>>9592672
What is a chapter book?>>9592677

>>9592672
I don't remember. It had a red cover. The first one I can remember was that series about the detective girl who had the photographic memory.

>>9594437
Cam Jansen

The Phantom Tollbooth.

>>9592672
>chapter book
what did he mean by this

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>>9592672
This. I found it in my dad's library when I was 6 or something. I read it front to back a dozen times, and it's influenced how and what I read, almost exclusively.

>>9594495
Same experience with a different book-- Cameron's Court of the Stone Children at 10.

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alot of enid blytons stuff, faraway tree, whishing chair ect.

20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Or
The Golden Compass

>>9592677
for sure?