What Book Got You Hooked?
Tell us which book made you fall in love with reading, and then visit First Book, a children's literacy nonprofit, and join its campaign to send books to low-income children!
Jessica
1375 books
354 friends
354 friends
Otis
1546 books
2025 friends
2025 friends
LaLa
561 books
2 friends
2 friends
Nick
357 books
865 friends
865 friends
Michael
726 books
285 friends
285 friends
Mary Todd
128 books
30 friends
30 friends
KATEtheGREATESTBESTONE
67 books
17 friends
17 friends
Erin
1891 books
66 friends
66 friends
More voters…
Comments Showing 1-50 of 98 (98 new)
message 1:
by
Jessica
(new)
Aug 15, 2008 03:28PM
![Jessica](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1268901139p1/603238.jpg)
reply
|
flag
![Tracy](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_25x33-d79c46f9428d2aea1444d67c091766a6.png)
![Mishqueen](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1200036230p1/576391.jpg)
![Ceci](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1334168271p1/732970.jpg)
![jo](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1237421111p1/210397.jpg)
Oh, I love Beatrix Potter too and read them all to my son. I also loved Black Beauty and all the Walter Farley books and was a fan club member. We never forget these books. I also had to read Alice in Wonderland but never really liked it that much.
Some of these books do not seem like children's books to me!
![Jennie](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1220053858p1/271326.jpg)
Well, some books really influenced me and I guess that is what is meant here. I have always read too as my mother did. But some books cause you to forget everything else and become totally focused on the book and change your outlook on life.
Tracey I also felt that way about Buck in The Call of the Wild. It upset me real bad. I liked White Fang better.
I have read many books and quite a few I barely remember at all but some books you NEVER FORGET. These are the ones that get you hooked and influence your life. There are also pages you remember all your life!!!!!
Tracey I also felt that way about Buck in The Call of the Wild. It upset me real bad. I liked White Fang better.
I have read many books and quite a few I barely remember at all but some books you NEVER FORGET. These are the ones that get you hooked and influence your life. There are also pages you remember all your life!!!!!
![ღ Carol jinx~☆~☔ʚϊɞ](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1530246036p1/1318962.jpg)
Me too! And that is one of my books. When i had children I loved reading to them and, of course, all my children love to read. Two of my children are writers.
![ღ Carol jinx~☆~☔ʚϊɞ](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1530246036p1/1318962.jpg)
I would love to find out what those books were because I seem to remember something like that. My mother used to call me to dinner by saying, "Go tell the lady that dinner is ready!" I always had to do dishes because I didn't help with the set-up.
![Jessica](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1201555739p1/812106.jpg)
Only one video of it is realistic, the Hallmark one, if I am not mistaken.
![Irene Hollimon](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1297991958p1/2185963.jpg)
![SallyTheLibrarian](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1343763904p1/2359112.jpg)
![Jen](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1618221807p1/2573662.jpg)
![Nancy](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1267327797p1/771007.jpg)
![Barb](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1247496914p1/191052.jpg)
For some people, reading as a child was not pleasurable, but was frightening and a chore. Some people did not have good experiences learning to read. I have heard many adults tell me, as a librarian, that it wasn't until they read a certain book as an adult that they got "hooked". So, I think it is fair to put adult books on this list if it fits that person's situation. Personally, I am more of the reading as breathing kind of person, but it is different for everyone. I got my first library card before I went to kindergarten and the library was on the next block. At 4 years old I was allowed to cross that one street to go to the library by myself! Boy, the world has changed - no parent would do that these days.
![Reader17 Der](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1223580293p1/1572584.jpg)
There are some stories as a child I loved and brought for my kids when they where born. Green Eggs and Ham!!
Now I am hooked on Young Adult and Manga. Sad my romance is now on the back burner to the other books.
![Cutebabys](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_25x33-d79c46f9428d2aea1444d67c091766a6.png)
I think I agree with you. In fact, I didn't manage to read it. I tried when I was 11, but I gave up. It was boring for an eleven-year-old kid. Now I've lost the book although I want to try it again.
![Daniel](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_25x33-8a3530ed95c3dbef8bf215b080559b09.png)
what about skulduggery pleasant IT WAS THE BEST IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
![Kim](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1257761478p1/2924939.jpg)
![Laura](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1224009736p1/1620374.jpg)
![Meredith](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1496797004p1/101057.jpg)
![Allen](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_25x33-8a3530ed95c3dbef8bf215b080559b09.png)
![William](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1262799266p1/3117093.jpg)
![William](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1262799266p1/3117093.jpg)
Apples in a Pail
![Jacob](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1443405157p1/271083.jpg)
I think showing young boys well written books that they want to read will open them to the whole world of literature rather than forcing them read the Brontë sisters at age 13.
![Val Wilkerson](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1236719803p1/157228.jpg)
![Val Wilkerson](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1236719803p1/157228.jpg)
![Emily](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1266726906p1/3319518.jpg)
![Brie Hillman](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_25x33-d79c46f9428d2aea1444d67c091766a6.png)
![Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith](https://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1179348022s/906595.jpg)
Related News
When buying holiday gifts, books are always a good choice. (We would say that, wouldn’t we?) When it comes to buying for kids, books are an...
Anyone can add books to this list.