What book, as a child, hooked you forever on reading?

[Glorfindel]

41. I honestly don't remember. I grew up in a house stuffed and crammed with books.

We lived with my grandfather, a retired teacher, and both my parents were voracious readers. I remember the Freddy the Pig books, "Kidnapped," "Treasure Island," "Tom Sawyer," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," etc. I was nine years old before we got a television, and by then I was hooked on reading. I had to be persuaded to stop reading and watch TV. Actually, it could be "A Night to Remember," about the sinking of the Titanic, that really set the hook in me. I joined the Book of the Month Club at age 11. You could get four books for a dollar, so I filled out the coupon and put 100 pennies in the envelope and placed them in the mailbox. The mailman got a kick out of it, and put in his own dollar, after asking my mother's permission. The four books were: "The Robe," "A Man Called Peter," "The Fields of Home," and "So Long as Love Remembers." I liked them all except the last one, which I passed along to my sister. I still have "The Robe," 61 years later, and though its cover is torn a bit and it's a little worse for wear, I still treasure it. Thank you, kiairos12, for such an interesting question and for making me remember things I hadn't thought about in years. Oh, and one more: "Richard Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels." It's incomparable.