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Originally Posted by Apache
I do not remember either. As far back as I can remember I have always read.
Apache
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This.
I know for a fact that I could read by the time I started kindergarten (at age three), because it's something I've kept hearing about my whole life. I know I'd read and re-read Alexandre Dumas' entire Ten Years Later series (released here as three ~900-page volumes, in a translation that's still wonderfully readable and not at all old-fashioned) several times by my sixth birthday, and kindergarten teachers often asked me to read to other kids when they were busy with something else.
I don't have conscious memories of pre-kindergarten days, but I know my grandma taught me the letters when I was around 1.5, and presumably I learned to read properly at some point between two and three.
If I had to pick a book that made a lasting childhood impression and turned me into a lifelong reader, Dumas' musketeer books are probably it. Although I was also very fond of The Hobbit in my pre-school days.