Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Here are some questions related to books you remember at different stages of life:

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you)
2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself?
3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)?
4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)?
5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young?
6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult?
7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child?
8. What book did you have to read in school and hated?

My answers:

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) - And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself? - Fun with Dick and Jane

3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)? - Heidi

4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)? - Little Women

5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young? - Edward Eager

6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult? - fantasy

7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child? - Zorro - a Walt Disney TV show based on The Mark of Zorro

8. What book did you have to read in school and hated? - Silas Marner

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) Green Eggs and Ham
2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself? The Cat in the Hat
3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)? The Phantom Tollbooth
4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)? Little Women
5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young? Carolyn Keene
6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult? Mystery
7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child? The Swiss Family Robinson
8. What book did you have to read in school and hated? Moby-Dick or, the Whale

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) oh hard one Madeline or maybe a Frog and Toad Are Friends
2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself? In the Night Kitchen
3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)? Beezus and Ramona
4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)? Younger teens probably books by Judy Blume, I really like Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself in my later teens I read a lot of Harlequin romances.
5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young? Judy Blume
6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult? I guess young adult fiction.
7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8. What book did you have to read in school and hated? The Canterbury Tales

I have more than one favorite.

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley

2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself?
I'm not sure it was really reading rather memorizing Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley

3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)?
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

The Giver by Lois Lowry was the first book that I remember making me really think when I read it in 4th grade.

4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)?
Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce

5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young?
R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike and Ann M. Martin

6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult?
biographies and fantasy

7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child? I never read the books as child but I loved The Princess Bride and The Never Ending Story. I read both as an adult The Princess Bride was good but the movie was better and The Never Ending Story was awful probably one of my least favorite books.

8. What book did you have to read in school and hated?
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) - Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories
2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself? - Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot and Other Stories
3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)? Five on a Treasure Island
4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)? Oliver Twist
5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young? Enid Blyton
6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult?Classics
7. What movie or TV show related to a book you liked as a child? Pippi Longstocking
8. What book did you have to read in school and hated? Voss

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you) - Amelia Bedelia

2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself? Amelia Bedelia

3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)?
The Palomino Mystery

4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)? The Iliad/The Odyssey

5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young? Ann Sheldon

6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult? Mystery

7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child? - The Wizard of Oz - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

8. What book did you have to read in school and hated? - I had a lot of those. My group always had to read really easy, boring books when the group above us got to read all sorts of "cool" books. I was so jealous that I couldn't read whatever they were. lol

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you)
Green Eggs and Ham

2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself?
Speak Up, Christopher: Christopher Learns the Difference Between Right and Wrong - It had a dinosaur skeleton on the cover, which is why I picked it. But I was so excited when I was finally able to read a book all by myself, I ended up making a little shrine for the book. I still have it.

The first chapter book I read by myself was Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)?
The Secret of NIMH

4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)?
Tailchaser's Song - I moved on and mostly only read adult books starting when I was 14. I didn't really start reading YA again until I was in my late 20's.

5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young?
Bruce Coville

6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult?
When I was a kid - anything involving animals or fairy tale creatures. Then I moved onto YA horror, then adult mysteries and horror (I was a really morbid teen.) And by my late teens I had moved onto fantasy.

7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child?
The Secret of NIMH

8. What book did you have to read in school and hated?
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz finding out that it was the same author as Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang was just weird.

1. What is the first book you remember as a child? (could have been read to you)
I guess a Dr. Seuss book. Probably The Cat in the Hat and/or Green Eggs and Ham
I'm too old to remember specifically! LOL

2. What is the first book you remember reading yourself?
I have no idea. Probably a Dr. Seuss. (I was a huge fan!)

3. What was a favorite book from your childhood (under 12)?
The Secret Garden is one I distinctly remember. I loved her acceptance, kindness, and generosity toward an 'invalid'.

4. What was a favorite book from your adolescence (approx 12-18)?
Oh, wow. I did so much reading then... I went through a western phase, a horse phase, an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn phase... (I imagine that last one was me working out my teenage angst! LOL) I guess those I remember most were the Solzhenitsyn books because they were so bizarre to me and Black Beauty and Zane Grey books and Ship of Fools.

5. Who was a favorite author of yours when you were young?
They are listed above! 😊

6. What was a favorite genre of yours as a child or young adult?
Historical fiction

7. What movie or TV show related to a book did you like as a child?
Love Story and Doctor Zhivago.

8. What book did you have to read in school and hated?
Shakespeare plays. Ugh. Though I'm glad to have some familiarity with the ones I read, that was enough for me! LOL