My first book, was the original copy of Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. They struggled to teach me to read at school, really - I taught myself fighting my way through that book, page by page, paragraph by paragraph, borrowed from the local library. From that, I went onto the Biggles series, again borrowed from the library. An odd one I borrowed was Nanook of the North. School had tried to teach us with the short line of text and picture books, which just had no interest for me, so I learned nothing, other than the basics.