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I'm just interested in other people's childhoods. That's all. I've discovered that not everyone read the books I read when I was three years old, and that distresses me. I think they need to be distributed to the populace.

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I certainly didn't read any of these when I was three, though.

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*beams* Have I not recounted the tale of Baby Selkie and the Library Card?

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You have. *G* *snuggles*

I suppose I was reading by that age - I think I was, anyway. But my favorite book was one that had been my grandmother's when she was little, The Little House.

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*sneaks into thread* Now this is a tale I'd like to hear, as it's setting off bells of childhood memory. :)

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Baby Selkie went to the New York Public Library and painstakingly signed her name to the back of a library card of her very own at the age of two and a half, if you ask my mother, or three, if you ask me. It was after my landmark childhood memory of falling into the toybox while trying to escape the Hoover. And the lid banged shut and it was dark and there was all kind of tsuris.

I read very early. Surprising, as I spoke very late.

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Wow, thank you-- I had entirely forgotten Tikki Tikki Tembo until you mention.

Correct me if I'm wrong-- that's the one in which someone with a name along the lines of 'Tikki Tikki Tembo Nosferiembo Charlie Charlie Chuchli Tip Terimembo" has fallen into a well, and by the time his friend who went for help has said his name to everyone who needs asked, the kid has drowned?

... It feels like there must be something wrong there, but.

Also, what on earth is How to Speak Politely and Why?

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Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo goes down the well and is almost drowned. There's a European variant of the tale called 'Hot Cockalorum'.

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Oh! How to Speak Politely and Why is a children's manual on good speech, published in the mid-forties. It has those fabulously primitive three-colour illustrations, and advises against 'gimme', 'yeah', 'ain't' and other things.

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ALSO! You have read PANDA CAKE!

Do you have a copy? Do you know where I can find a copy? *spazzes out*

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Didn't read any of those as a kid, though I was in love with the Babar cartoon on HBO.

My favorite book was The Pear-Shaped Hill, the harrowing adventures of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91502146@N00/35481703/in/set-859713/>Bill and Jill</a> and .... a pear-shaped hill.

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Of....?

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I fail at html....

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Didn't read any of those as a kid, though I was in love with the Babar cartoon on HBO.

My favorite book was The Pear-Shaped Hill, the harrowing adventures of Bill and Jill and...a pear-shaped hill.

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I seee.

Cut-paper illustrations! Rock on!

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I was always envious of Bill's frog for some reason...

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I read Tintin by the bucketload, and had a passing acquaintance with Babar.

I think my favourite book might have been about Tiddlik the frog...sick and twisted and slightly wrong, but I loved it to bits.

Is Momotaro the story about the old Japanese couple who really, desperately want a child, and they find a little boy the size of the stone in a peach? If it is, I read that one too.

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I'm fairly ashamed of how much I enjoyed The Five Chinese Brothers. I was actually in a school production of it (I was the Naughty Little Boy). Now I read it and am faintly horrified.

Panda Cake was the first book I ever read. I am still looking for a recipe that will actually make an edible panda cake.

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I think I forgot to tick Tikki-tikki-tembo. Which is ridiculous, because I still have it memorized. And when I was in language class in Costa Rica, they wanted each of us to "tell a story from your country," and that was the only one I could think of that was easy enough to translate. So I told it to the teacher and the Dutch people. Although it may not be technically from my country.

Reading at three? I did not learn to read (English) until I was six or so. My mom read aloud to us, including the LOTR trilogy, twice, which may explain a lot. When I was learning to read, my damn brother decided he should do that too. He was three, the overachieving goofball.

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