We’re in a party mood on Guardian Books: our Twitter account is approaching one million followers, after four years of fascinating conversations with an engaged and passionate community. To mark the occasion, we’ll be exchanging literary tips, memories and anecdotes on the social network – and we’ve kicked it off with the earliest book we remember reading. Delve into this retro children’s books fest courtesy of our readers, and add your own favourites, either in the comments below, or on #booksamillion.
@GuardianBooks #Booksamillion First book I remember reading .. Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten by Noel Barr pic.twitter.com/mD9y6G19cY
— Canons High School (@BooksCanons) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks this was my first book I read myself - I can still see the pictures in my brain pic.twitter.com/6NQXEYaTPf
— angela sweeting (@brevitypoems) February 4, 2015
.@GuardianBooks This is the first book I remember reading. Still love it. @bramblyhedge_ #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/luirM6ISiU
— Jemima (@Mima_w) February 5, 2015
@GuardianBooks #Booksamillion first book I remember reading, 'Dear Zoo' tucked up in bed as a kid! pic.twitter.com/7vvzq3HhtL
— claire (@scubaclairey) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks #Booksamillion I remember this book, loved the story and the illustrations. This is the same cover. pic.twitter.com/PLfpoyr7Vo
— Mycroft & Anthea (@AB_Mycroft) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks @AB_Mycroft The french version of the Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/qwQsQPLOTf
— RianaRakoto (@RRakoto42) February 4, 2015
First book I can remember reading (by myself) definitely Finn Family Moomintroll!! #Booksamillion @GuardianBooks pic.twitter.com/bXZtWVSxoG
— Elsa Charlotte Hill (@ElsaCHill) February 4, 2015
First book - 'The Funny Thing' by Wanda Gag. And very good it was too, jum-jills. #booksamillion @GuardianBooks pic.twitter.com/lZmcfD9C6z
— Vicki Jarrett (@vicki_jarrett) February 4, 2015
Not the 1st, but one of the first. #SmallPig & @liljewil51 taught me the word "nearby." @GuardianBooks #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/rrGwMdrhSB
— Kristian Wilson (@kristianwriting) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks Here it is, the first book I remember reading: The Large & Growly Bear, by Gertrude Crampton. pic.twitter.com/SBnjWfbITs
— Claire (@enominal) February 4, 2015
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever because the pictures built worlds way beyond the words. #booksamillion http://t.co/afz0y1UzL8
— Claire Armitstead (@carmitstead) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks #booksamillion First book I read alone, at Grandma Peg's on Christmas Eve. I was five and ate it up! pic.twitter.com/XlhIPTnBg2
— EV Bell (@elliottvbell) February 4, 2015
First bk I remember reading: either Five Children & It or Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (for the killer twist) @GuardianBooks #booksamillion
— Justine Jordan (@justine_jordan) February 4, 2015
.@GuardianBooks I was reminded this Christmas by my mother buying me a new copy: Paddington and the Knicker Bocker Rainbow.
— Hannah Love (@AitchLove) February 5, 2015
First books I remember reading -Magic Porridge Pot and Princess and the Pea by Ladybird #booksamillion @GuardianBooks pic.twitter.com/eH2XnYzKFs
— Katy Stoddard (@katy_bird) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks @AB_Mycroft pic.twitter.com/35MPNrzfIE
— Heather Jones (@aitchiej) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks Childcraft, Italian edition. My family read to me from it and I learned to read on it. #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/sVgWDlTieK
— Giulia Blasi (@Giulia_B) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks The Eye Book #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/SBRRvbup2f
— Sally Cooper (@cooper_sally) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks Aesop`s Fables, my first book many years ago, the illustrations make my imagination fly #booksamillion pic.twitter.com/pg7PvnRzXv
— Eduardo Tellez (@edtelleza) February 5, 2015
@GuardianBooks The first 'big kid' chapter book I read was a slightly abridged version of Black Beauty when I was around seven.
— Sarah Galo (@SarahEvonne) February 3, 2015
@GuardianBooks Famous Five by Enid Blyton - read them in order, was allowed to visit a bookshop and buy new book with birthday money #smell
— Jane Brocksom EN,RGN (@HoorayJane) February 3, 2015
@GuardianBooks "Á La Recherche du Temps Perdu" when I was 2. In the original French, obviously.
— A. Joseph Black (@Gram_is_God_TB) February 4, 2015
@GuardianBooks #booksamillion the first I can remember was this: The Adventures of Mr. Pink-Whistle by Enid Blyton. pic.twitter.com/ZnfLuJGNuw
— SALT (@saltpublishing) February 6, 2015
#booksamillion 1st book I remember rdng was with Dick & Dora, Nick & Fluff Mum collected milk in a jug from milkman! pic.twitter.com/Oq65KesoPQ
— Gill Price (@Gillianfc) February 6, 2015
Which is the first book you remember reading? Join the conversation on Twitter or in the comments below
