My earliest book related memory...
I was in kindergarten but can't read in English very well except for easy individual words. But I love books or looking at the pictures in books, rather. My parents, having never been to school before, speak only the Malay language. When my elder sister found out that I asked Mom for Jack and the Beanstalk (of the lady bird series, loads of pictures as well), she asked me to read it to her. Of course I couldn't but tried anyway. The words sounded more Malay than English. That was when I got a good thrashing from her. But that only make me more determined to be able to read.