Which author started it all for you?

[ScarlettEscola]

I have been reading practically since I was born, but Barbara Park was my very first author.

[LeenKansas]

The Babysitter's Club series by Ann M. Martin was where my love of books started. I became enamored with the characters in this series and I looked forward to my weekly visits to the local library to check out the next book. I think I held the record for most hold requests! I was around the same age as the main characters and I dreamed of being their friends. The excitement I felt reading the BSC books inspired me to seek out other friends and eventually, I branched out and delivered a love of all books.

[cllnchd]

I started reading Erma Bombeck books and fell in love with reading. Unfortunately she passed away.

[Lawdy2010]

According to my parents and Nanna I have always loved books and would make them read with me for hours at a time from when I was a toddler. But if I was to pin point one author who really made me love reading it would have to be J.K Rowling! My mum read me the first two Harry Potter novels. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the first novel I ever read by myself and I have been reading ever since! To the point where my parents had to ban reading books at the dining table when I was a teenager haha

[jessicam65101]

I wasn't that big on reading during elementary and junior high school. It wasn't until I was in my freshman year of high school that I found a R.L. Stine book that got me hooked. I lived in the country and was on the school bus for at least an hour a day. I would spend that time devouring through his Fear Street books. It didn't take long before I was being called a book worm because I just couldn't put his books down. So I thank R.L. Stine for his showing me that reading can be interesting to a girl growing up in the country who previously thought reading wasn't fun at all.

[IReadJSherman]

Julie Campbell Tatham-she wrote the Trixie Belden Series. I fell in love with her outdoor adventures and found a love for mysteries at a young age.

[HappyBanjoGirl]

The author that started my passion for reading was L.M. Montgomery. I grew up reading her classics, the Anne of Green Gable Series. I fell in love with all of her characters and I knew that I would become a writer not long later. Writing and reading is something that I do not see as an escape, but as an adventure.

[Lolly_Reader]

Dr. Suess lured me in with Green Eggs and Ham, and I've never stopped reading since then. It's still one of my favourite books to read to small fry so I can enjoy it all over again. The man was a creative genius.

[Laney_O]

The first book that I ever read that really made me start reading was 1984 by George Orwell. I believe I read the book when I was in Seventh grade. I realized what an intelligent book it was and then read Farenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury. My love of classic books started there and I started to read Jack London and Charles Dickens. In the end, the author that sparked my love of reading is still George Orwell.

[Jories4]

Antoine de Saint Exupery´s "The Little Prince" was the first book i read as i remember, but Gabriel Garcia Marques is the one who made me a real avid reader after him i couldnt spend a week without reading.

[Kiekow15]

I read Jack London's White Fang when I was in elementary school (not the greatest of ideas), as I had an obsession with wolves. After struggling through it for quite a while, I found myself spending most of my free time reading instead of playing video games as I had before.

[Adamandia]

I started reading at a really young age but the authors that really got me hooked on romance novels were Carole Mortimer and Sharlotte Lamb. I was reading so many Harlequin novels back then.
I think that I had boxes with more than 500 novels in paperback. The really sad part is that my brother sold them all without telling me when I was in college

[mal03]

For me it all started with E. B. White

[RobertRun]

It was Ray Bradbury for me. By the time I was 15 I had read everything he had written up to that point. That not only got me into other Sci-fi but also social commentary, I think it had a positive effect on critical thinking skills.

[MrsCatInTheHat]

For me it all started with E. B. White

The first movie I ever bought my kids was "Charlotte's Web". I had such fond memories of reading it and watching it as a child.