First Fantasy book you ever read/Introduction to Fantasy

I read the Narnia Chronicles when I was in grade 3 or 4 (can't remember which).
 
The Crystal Shard

Still love the Forgotten Realms books. Will always be favorites to me.
 
Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three. Or Norton Juster's The Phantom Tolbooth.
 
Gosh, where to draw the lines for what is fantasy and what's not. The first fantasy based book I can recall was Rocket Mouse (don't recall the author) way back in 3rd or 4th grade. The first mainstream fantasy would be The Lion, The Witch and the Waredrobe (like so many others). From there I don't think I'd want to list the number of fantasy novels I've read over the years.

Maus99
 
I can distinctly remember the first three books that I ever read. They were:

1st - The Hobbit
2nd - A Wizard of Earthsea
3rd - The Shamutanti Hills
 
A little known book called "Urshurak" by the Hildebrandt Brothers, who were more known for their art then any writing ability. Urshurak was one of that last "one book epics." Not great, but it got me interested.

Next came the Hobbit and LoTRs.
 
I think it was a gradual shift for me, although LOTR was probably the first fantasy book I read. I wanted more LOTR type books (not too similar of course), so I got into the wonderful world of fantasy:)
 
It was the Chronicles of Narnia in elementry, but I wasn't really interested in Fantasy untill I read Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword in middle school....
 
Chronicles of Narnia in elementary, I hated it and it totally killed my love for books all the way up to 2003.
 
Dr. Seuss doesn't count? Almost all his work is fantastical.

After that... probably my mother read me Peter Pan at some point before I was five, and the chronicles of Narnia would have come next... if indeed they didn't come first.
 
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. At the time it was the most amazing book I had read, though I was only 10.
 
It was either The First Shannara Series or The Belgariad. I am picking my brain thinking back all those years ago and I just can't remember which one was first. I definetly know they were the first two.
 
I didn't start reading fantasy until I was 25.My first fantasy was "The Hobbit."
After that I was hooked. :)

Good reading everyone.

Penny
 
For me it was the Goosebump books by R.L. Stine. Great Stuff, though they didn't lead me into other fantasy books -- that came some time later.
 
like the comment that most books are fantasy :)

Forget which was first, but they all were great: lion, the witch, and the wardrobe... BFG... Wrinkle in Time (which i picked up recently and plan to read again)
 
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