I remember reading and loving, Pippii Longstockings, all the Boxcar Children books, and Beezus and Ramona series.
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That is the best story, Mari. I got a good laugh at that. Something you and your sister will always remember. Too funny.
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I don’t know the name of the book but it was a paperback about a circus fire. I was at my step-grandmother’s summer cottage and can still see where I was and I cried and cried. Years later I moved to Connecticut and learned about the circus fire there.
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I have never heard any one else ever talk about the Lennon Sister’s book. My grandma brought me that book when I was in the hospital to have a plantar wart removed - a couple nights in, remember this was the 50’s! I read the Happy Hollister books!
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We definitely have giggled about it over the years! I have started giving books to my great nieces and nephews and I’m very careful to not mix them up. 
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Is that you God, it’s me Margaret.
I found my mom’s Nancy Drew books in my grandmother’s attic. Wish I had kept them! Also, a classic favorite, Make Way for Ducklings!
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I’m unsure what happened to our book, but IF it survived my brother might know it’s location. Worth a phone call for him to checkout book shelves in the old house. 
Unfortunately, mine is long gone!
That was such a long time ago! Most likely it would have been something in the way of Dick, Jane, and Sally with their faithful dog Spot, lol. I also read a bunch of the Nancy Drew series, but what really grabbed my attention and remains a well loved book was The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.
I, too, learned to read with Dick, Jane, Sally, and Spot. “Spot, go Spot go.”
My mother taught me to read at age 3 so it’s difficult to remember what my first truly on my own printed word book was. I vaguely remember what we called a rag book (made of coated cloth and it had definitely seen better days) about these animals living in the woods that were drawn as the rattiest looking things. The first book I remember reading in school was about seven Chinese brothers who could do wondrous acts like stretch their neck so their head was above water and their feet were on the bottom of sea. The first chapter books were the little orange Young Americans series.
That’s easy - The Bobbsey twins. Before the time of “malls”, my mom would take me to a large department store and I would sit along the aisle of the book section where the entire series in hard cover was located. I would sit and read while she shopped and when she was ready to go, I would write down the page I was on so that I could continue reading where I left off, when we returned to shop!
Tom Sawyer. I loved it. I actually laughed out loud a few times while reading it. I read it the summer before I started Fourth Grade