TV Stars Share: What Book Got You Hooked?
August 8, 2007 by Kath Skerry
A number of authors and celebrities are participating in “What Book Got You Hooked?”— a national awareness campaign from First Book, the children’s literacy organization that provides new books to children from low-income families. The 15-year-old organization has just given its 50 millionth book to children in need.
What books were important to some of our favorite TV stars? Click here to find out.
What was the book or books that got you hooked?
For me, I think it was anything and everything by Shel Silverstein.
“Prayer of the Selfish Child”
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
and if I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my toys to break
so none of the other kids can use ’em.
Amen.
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What a great organization!! I grew up in a book loving house too and as a result has a super active imagination, was ahead in reading in school by two classes and used to get introuble when I was supposed to be cleaning my room cuz I’d be under my bed with a flashlight and a book! My first favorite memory of a book being read to me was Little Brown Bear. My first fave to read on my own was The Little Princess whic I STILL pick up and read through once a year even now in my lateish mid 30’s!
Wow, those are some good books. I grew up reading. I still have nearly an entire library of books I refuse to give away from my childhood. I can’t remember what book got me hooked, but I love The Babysitters Club…. (I just rediscovered those today), but I read nearly everything mentioned there. My favorite authors right now are Sarah Dessen and John Marsden. I could talk about books almost as much as I could talk about TV.
My parents got me into books a very young age. After that i would read anything and everything… and still do. I would Say that the first book that got me hooked was the Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch. My first chapter book was either Charlotte’s Web or James and the Giant Peach. Now I am into the classics like Pride and Prejudice. My guilty pleasure books are of course Harry Potter… and the Gossip Girl series. But really there are too many books that i love that i could fill pages and pages about them.
Tanja stole one of my answers… James and the Giant Peach was one of my favorite books. I remember reading Maniac Magee and A Wrinkle in Time in elementary school and absolutely loving them. I also was a fan of all the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High books. The fact that I lived right next to a library helped my cause of loving to read. I probably read every book in their young adult section by the time I was 11. Wow, this is amazing.
Of course I loved Dr. Seuss when I was little – One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish was my favorite when I was in preschool/kindergarten. I remember my other faves in grade school were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Cricket in Times Square. And Judy Blume books were always on my bookshelf – Superfudge!
Oh I have to add, speaking of Shel Silverstein – to this day, The Giving Tree still touches my heart – I love the message of it.
Okay I’ll say it… I’m a TV Addict… ummm… reading? books? really what are these crazy things?
Jokes aside….. growing up reading before bed was mandatory, and I actually loved it…. Hardy Boys, Boy at Leafs Camp and of course Archie Comics…. Reggie Mantle… the original Logan Echolls.
I used to be obsessed with the Babysitter’s Club books…to the point where I would be at the bookstore the day the new ones would come out! (I’d like to see myself as a visionary…this was years before the Harry Potter phenomenon, which I am also totally and completely obsessed with to this day!) If I’m going way back in time, my favorite books as a little kid were PJ Funnybunny, and The Little Engine that Could…of and of course, Goodnight Moon 🙂
Heh… I totally agree with the Babysitter’s Club books! I was going to say From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler but I realized that I read that when I was a bit older… honestly, the first books were… *drumroll* Amelia Bedelia! 🙂
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson stole my heart when I was a kid. My sister used to read it to me for 2 or 3 hours at a time. I know it’s weird, but it was the first book that I was ever truly excited to read.
I also loved “Amelia Bedelia” and “Ramona Quimby”.
GMMR – I loved those books too! Wow – it’s such a trip down memory lane thinking about all the good books I read when I was a kid. I wish I read as much now as I did back then!
ahhhhhhhhhh!!! i loved roald dahl books too! i love jkras even more now.
Oh my god everyone, I almost forgot to mention my favorite book from my childhood…my Grandmata used to read it to me as a kid.
It’s called Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman from 1864…cautionary tales for kids.
I still have my Shel Silverstein books. I remember reading Babysitters Club and getting so into them. I was reading the one with Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls and my phone rang the exact time I read that her phone rang. It freaked me out and I was a little scared to pick it up! I would really love to go back and read all those books again. I guess my favorite author back then was Christopher Pike (well, in my a little older years).
Ohhhh GMMR, Romona Quimby?? I loved those books!!
I read lots and lots as a kid:
Berenstein Bears, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, this series of biographies about famous ppl as kids (like Ben Franklin and such), Magic Treehouse, The Indian in the Cupboard, books by Judy Blume (Fudge) and Beverly Clearly (Ramona and Henry Huggins).
I had forgotten about Roald Dahl. My favorite was George’s Marvelous Medicine.
I used to collect Shel Silverstein books. Love those. Those and Babysitter’s Club were the ones I read all the time when I was little.