Other than schoolbooks, the first book I remember reading on my own was Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace. I have read the entire series and even done the tour of the town in which they were set.
It was a Winnie the Pooh book. I don't recall the title, only that Pooh Bear got stuck in the entryway to Rabbit's home,and, they spent the entire story trying to get him unstuck.
This post was edited by Just Asking at January 20, 2018 1:32 PM MST
Unfortunate that you do not recall the actual title - that would have been a real bonus. But well done for remembering the plot. I think Winnie the Pooh, Wind in the Willows and Beatrix Potter's books must figure high in youngsters book-lists - not today perhaps, but once upon a time.
'In the land of little mice or something similar' It belonged to my cousin.. I coveted it, and begged her to let me borrow it, she took forever and ever... in the end it was very, very boring - but it was a BOOK. And we had very few books back then, indeed they were something to be in awe of.
At age five I was doing the experiments in my brother's chemistry set. (They made chemistry sets for kids in those days.) The only problem was I couldn't figure out how to pronounce phenolphthalein.