{"id":1493,"date":"2016-09-13T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blinkyabooks.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:18:49","slug":"blink-authors-first-book-remember-reading-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/blinkyabooks\/blink-authors-first-book-remember-reading-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Blink Authors: What Is The First Book You Remember Reading As A Child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s Back To School series, some of our Blink authors share the first book they remember reading as a child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the first book you remember reading as a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Reynolds:<\/strong> A book of scary stories called THE THING AT THE FOOT OF THE BED. I still have my tattered copy of the book!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Evangeline Denmark:<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My earliest book-related memories are of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Chronicles of Narnia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I used to pretend to be Lucy. I&#8217;m still kinda waiting for Mr. Tumnus to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Denise Grover Swank:<\/strong> I learned to read before I went to kindergarten, and I remember reading a book about a girl who went shopping and begged her mother for red shoes instead of black ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Carol Lynch Williams:<\/strong> That was a long time ago, so I don&#8217;t really remember. Mom was bringing all her teacher-y stuff home. We were always memorizing poems with her and Mom would read her school books to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you! 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