the very first you have read by yourself that is.
the very first booK you have ever read
the very first you have read by yourself that is.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Biggles Learns to Fly
''This is the story of the very beginning - of the Air Service and of Biggles. It's the First World War and Biggles is just 17; the planes are primitive; combat tactics are non-existent; and pilots and their gunners communicate by hand signals and have no contact with the ground. This is where Biggles learns his craft and finds he has a certain aptitude for flying in battle''Originally Posted by ennison
how old were you?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Six or seven
The first one that I remember for sure was a biography of Robert E. Lee; that was when I was five of six.
Now, you cannot get away without confessing what you first book was. What was it? War and Peace?
catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger (11 yrs old) - not including hard boys books, or a couple silly mystery novels.
There are books I remember reading fairly early (early teens) but I can't think of the first ever book I read. Can't remember. Must be one of those Jack-and-Jill-went-up-the-hill sort of children's books.
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.
_Pablo Neruda
haha War and Peace was not the first i had read.
it was definetely a Standhal and could have been Rouge et Noir/ Red and Black but that was in my early teen.
earlier then that i cannot recall may be a Beatrice Potter or a Les Fables by Lafontaine.
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it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
I don't remember. The earliest I remember was George's Marvellus Medicine by Roald Dahl, I think I would have been about 6.
'So - this is where we stand. Win all, lose all,
we have come to this: the crisis of our lives'
Same here. I simply can't remember a time when I wasn't an avid and individual reader.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
I think it was Little Black Sambo, or maybe my mom read it to me - I was very small and don't really remember. Incidentally I came across it decades later in a list of banned books!
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Exit, pursued by a bear.
Little Black Sambo
that could not be 'correct' in today's world right?
the same with golliwog the reference to the black doll.
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it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Fairy tales. I don't remember the exact title. I've liked them when I was a child, I still do.
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“All" human beings "by nature desire to know.” ― Aristotle
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
That's right. It's actually a very nice story about a smart boy who outwits a bunch of tigers. Nothing remotely racist about the story itself. It's the stereotype illustrations and the names of the characters that have caused offense.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
the same here.Fairy tales. I don't remember the exact title. I've liked them when I was a child, I still do.
free what does your avatar say? i cant figure it out it is too small
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
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