Coral Island for me - and my twin sister!. I'm thinking of getting her a copy for Christmas!. But will the thousands that came after alter her perception of it!? So should I leave it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: trixie beldon famous fiveWww@QuestionHome@Com This is going to sound ridiculous, but, to tell you the truth, it was Jacqueline Wilson!. I know, I know, it's young and the books are all very samey, but it was got me started!. I've still got a stack of twenty of them, that I can't even contemplate throwing away!. My english teacher was always going on at me to true something new, so I have to say that the first other book I read was Private Peaceful by Micheal Morpurgo!. The book that started me reading classics was Pride and Prejudice!. I bought it in Key West when we went there on holiday and I had already read all my other books, along with Wuthering Heights and A farwell to arm!. I had read it from the school liabary to read it, and I am the type of person that likes to read books over and over and over agian, so I am now here!. Www@QuestionHome@Com i loved reading ever since i was little (my parents didn't have time to spend with me)!.!. so i don't really have a particular book that got me hooked!. but i remember i loved reading the berenstein bears and those disney books with the cassette tapes lolWww@QuestionHome@Com I started reading at 2!.!.I had no idea what any of it meant but my father drummed reading into me!.!.I later picked up on all the Famous Five books and read ever since!.!. If I do not read every day my day seems unfinished!.!. Just for once you have a sensible answer from me !.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Witches by Roald Dahl, my third grade teacher used to read it to the class, and she would do voices for the characters!. I read all of his books after that, then moved on!. Haven't stopped reading since!. Www@QuestionHome@Com the first words i learned to read ,i was addicted there and then ,first book that enthralled me was "the jungle books" by rudyard kipling !.i still have it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The flight of dragons by Peter Dickinson or The little mermaid by Anderson!. Can't decide!. Never heard of coral Island so can't really comment on that!. xWww@QuestionHome@Com Well good old Enid Blyton, then Willard Price, then Judy Blume then Agatha Christie and then I was a teenager and just loved reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Mine was Heidi, in the third grade!.!.!. followed by a fascination with all those Little House on the Prarie books!. But Heidi definitely started it all!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It by Stephen King!. My mom read it to me!. Then I read Pet Semetary by myself!. Very young, instantly hooked on books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It was probably Bill and Ben,the flowerpot men!.!.!.full of such interesting facts about gardening!.!.!.got me hooked for life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 101 Dalmatians way back in the 60'sWww@QuestionHome@Com Mine was Charlotte's Web!. I think getting her a copy of Coral Island is a really nice thought!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Pride & PrejudiceWww@QuestionHome@Com We did not have a TV until I was about 10, so the mobile library was a big plus in my life!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Lord of the RingsWww@QuestionHome@Com Warrior Cats!. What else is new!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |