Question 1 - Childhood Books

[Cameron]

I liked to read Harry Potter, been in love ever since!!!!!!

[Raquel]

Almost any book by VC Andrews, the Fear Street and Goosebumps books.
There was this one book that I can't remember for the life of me, I can barely remember the plot but I know I LOVED it. it might've been called The Pale something. But anytime I think oft these books or reread a VC Andrews book I always think back :)

[[deleted user]]

Just found this section, how fun!

Books that instantly pop into my head-

Nancy Drew series
Hardy Boys series
Boxcar Children's series
Trixie Belden series

...and then a bit later-the Fear Street series and anything I could get my hands on by Christopher Pike :D

[Happy]

Any book I could get my hands on! I suppose The Lord of the Rings was my favourite for many many years.

[Leo]

The Three Investigators series. They were for the longest time my only non-schoolwork books, I didn't really start to read as hobby until in my late teen years when a friend recommended the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and the Discworld books. Everything else followed from them.

[Emma]

I loved all of Roald Dahl's books but my favourite has to be Boy and Going Solo. I used to read it over and over again.

[Sam]

Anything Enid Blyton, but particularly the Faraway Tree, I have recently bought the same edition I owned as a child which I'm thrilled about, and apparently a film is being made! Also the Narnia chronicles, Tolkien, the secret garden which I'm currently reading, and anything I could get my hands on. I used to walk to the library every saturday morning with my dad.

[Sammantha]

My favorite books were One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. I also enjoyed Chrysanthemum since I have a pretty long name too so I could relate to her dilemma. I read a lot of Babysitters Club and Goosebumps when I got older and YA thrillers too. My favorites of these was a book called Teachers Pet.

[Joanna]

I just loved the Famous Five by Enid Blyton. The theme tune will be stuck in my head now all night "We are the famous five. Julian Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Do-og".

[Elise]

The series that I remember the most is the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. My mother used to read those out loud to my sister and I, and we would also take turns reading. I read all the books in his series, 21 books in total! I could not put them down!

[Cassie]

My favorites were the Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell and of course the a little House books :) I still love Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. I also read the ones by her daughter and the ones about her mother (in Boston?) and grandmother back in Scotland. I read the L.I.W. Cookbook and cannot wait to receive her actual autobiography that is being published. There are kid board book versions that I only found out about when my own girls were too old for board books, but we did get Pioneer Girl for now until they can read the chapter books :)

[☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎]

I loved Island of the Blue Dolphin it was one of my favorites as a pre-teen and I also enjoyed Forever by Judy Blume and E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. I must have read those books over and over again that the librarian would always try to get me to try other books. :)

[Karolyn]

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein is still on my nightstand. All time favorite.

[Grace]

When I was a child, I loved the Molly series from American Girl, Narnia, the Left Behind Kids series, and Harry Potter.

[[deleted user]]

Oh, what a cozy question! My childhood favorites were Eight Cousins, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, These Happy Golden Years, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, Miss Osbourne the Mop, A Wrinkle in Time, and Homer Price.

[Morgan]

The Lord of the Rings has been a favorite of mine since I first read them when I was 9. Before that, I loved the hobbit, but my interest in it was never quite as profound as my love for the Lord of the Rings. I re-read it every few years and I always get something new from it.

I also remember really enjoying Heidi (it was the first full book I read by myself, if I recall correctly) and the Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (two cats and an adventure-what more could you ask for at 8!?).

Harry Potter also impacted me, but that was more during my teens. I was right in the middle of the Harry Potter phase, so I grew up with Harry & his friend as the books came out.

[Ashley]

I remember buying a Dr. Seuss collection when I was about 7, he has always been one of my favorite childrens authors. I will definitely be passing them on for the kids in my family. (I don't really have a favorite of his, I love them all)

I also grew up with the Harry Potter series, so that is another set of books that I will always love.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

The Monster at the end of the book, Pippi Longstocking, Fear street series, Judy Blume books

[Mirliz]

I used to read a lot as a child and teen - I read fluently even before I started school. I remember looking through my parents' bookshelves for all the children's books, and coming home from the library with bags of books every week. So, I can't really remember everything I read back then...

But I guess the books that really stand out in my childhood memories are the Narnia Chronicles. I read them when I was 7, I think. And even today I get this warm fuzzy feeling when I pick them out of my bookshelf, remembering those long reading sessions when I explored those wonderful magical countries for the first time.

[Nikki]

The Hobbit. My Dad would read it to me often when I was little. We moved on to sections of the Lord of the Rings but The Hobbit will always stick in my memory.

[Marina]

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (I've only now found out the original title of this book, it's called "Little Women Grow Up" in Italian!)

These are the ones I remember most dearly.

[Deborah]

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was my first 'proper' book bought for me, at age 4. My mother taught me to read at 2 and I was onto reading silently by that time the book was bought - I recall it because we were on the ferry back from France after camping; I was just short of 4 years old.

Others were:

Five Children and It and the rest of the Psammead series

Ballet Shoes

The Secret Garden

Heidi

Little Women

What Katy Did

Anne of Green Gables

The Borrowers

Charlotte's Web

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

The Little Prince

Swallows and Amazons

Grimm's Fairy Tales (I had a very old and battered first edition - so bloodthirsty!)

Andersen's Fairy Tales

The Story of Ferdinand

I was always to be found, curled up in some hidey-hole, reading. Everything changes and remains exactly the same :)

[Jenny, Certified Bookworm]

R L Stien's Goosebumos series is what started me. Me and my mom read them to each other all the time. I have all of the origional series as well as nightmare room and some of his others. I also remember Arther, Henry and Mudge (gotta love that giant dog) and Mr. Putter and Tabby fondly

[Cindy]

My aunt used to give me Bobbsey Twins books for Christmas presents. My Mom had a huge collection of Nancy Drew books.

[Cindy]

I forgot to mention Harriet the Spy. I read that book many times when I was a kid.

[Susan]

I remember reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology when I was very young. I loved every bit of it, even though I had a doozy of a nightmare about Prometheus and the eagle.

[sonya]

Little house series and jungle book

[[deleted user]]

Fantastic Mr. Fox
I also read most of Judy Blume books and the Nancy Drew Mysteries.

[Agnik]

There are do so many. Mostly classics but not only.....
For example: Anne of Green Gables, The six Bullerby kids, Pan Samochodzik, The Wizard of oz and many many more

[Tina]

Little House on the Prairie series, The Outsiders, Anne of Green Gables series

[Tina]

Also Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys and The Bobbsey Twins series

[Nancy]

Don't know if I posted before, but really liked reading
Beautiful Joe (a dog story) by M. Saunders
A Wrinkle in Time by M. L'Engle
An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa Mae Alcott
the Nancy Drew mysteries although I didn't read them all
Winnie-the-Pooh anthology (had excerpts from all the poetry and stories) by A.A. Milne

I discovered Harriet the Spy when my sister was taking Children's Literature for her Elementary Ed. major...I was a senior in high school and read many of the books she needed read.

With my older son, we read the Animorph series by K.A. Applegate together. It was a great way to talk about the books and what we'd want to morph into and why.

[beth]

I remember loving A Little Princess, Ballet Shoes (in the classics department) as well as Dancing Friends, the entire My Secret Unicorn series (starting with The Magic Spell) and the entire go girls series (starting with Dancing Queen, but especially the go girl angel's mini series Go Girl: Angels)

[Linda]

I learned to read with the Little Golden Books. Whenever we went shopping and I was a good girl, my mom would buy me another one. Tawny Scrawny Lion. Three Billy Goats Gruff. Tootles the Tugboat. Pokey Little Puppy. The Little Engine That Could. You know the ones I mean!

[Jenny, Certified Bookworm]

Tootles! I remeber that one! Haha so many memories from those... I also remember Henry and Mudge

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

I really liked The Bobbsey Twins (1, 2 and 3) and when I was older I liked Enid Blyton's Adventure Series.

[Lynnette]

I think whenI I was a little person I read every Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys I could get at my small library. My parents enrolled me in a Book of the Month series " We are there. ". All about historical happenings. Clara Barton, The Boston Tea Party, etc. anyone remember? Wish I still had them. Moved once upon a time & donated them to my small town library.

[Michaela in Bookish Wonderland]

I've loved reading from.a very young age so I read a lot. But by far my favourites were the goosebumps series and anything by Roald Dahl.

[Nathalia]

My first and my favorite one was little prince and I will never forget how much impact this book bring to my life!!

[Krysta]

I read the Babysitter Club books and loved the Emily of New Moon books. Other than that, I read whatever I could get my hands on, including classics (Jane Eyre for the first time when I was 9 or 10) and my parents' books... as an adult I started collecting beautiful copies of actual children's books. Winnie the Pooh is probably my favourite.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

I like the Emily of New Moon books too.

[Susy]

I ADORED the serie Pinkeltje by Dick Laan (Fingerling) :))))

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

I've never heard of those. Is the main characters a little person or more like a leprechaun?

[Susy]

More like a leprechaun. When I visit my parents I'm gonna ask them if they still have them!

[Glennis]

I was an avid reader.... King of the Wind was my absolute, hands down favorite, but.... I read a lot. Misty of Chincoteague and the follow ups were read regularly, as well as The Black Stallion series (as many as our library had anyway)....The Bobbsey Twins books (got one in 2nd grade), but never picked up the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew....Black Beauty... Call of the Wild... Lots of animal stories. I still like mysteries...maybe that's where my love for true crime comes from. When the Harry Potter books came out....I was wrapped up in them as well. Fun question!!

[Jackie]

One of my favorites was The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. It made me think that kids could take care of themselves. Especially when I was mad at my parents!

[Glennis]

When most kids were still reading short books, I was off with The Bobbsey Twins getting into mysterious situations. Then I discovered the public library...King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague and the Black Stallion series... Once I got to high school, there was a lot of assigned reading....nothing that seriously stuck with me.

[Jenny, Certified Bookworm]

I loved the Bobbsey Twins Glennis!

[jakki]

I remember devouring anything in my elementary school library from the abridged version of Silas Marner to Raggedy Ann and Andy books (?!) Loved Little House books of course esp.living in Colorado. The Pastors' daughters introduced me to Harlequin Romances in the 4th grade which ruined me for realistic romances forever and still remember my first one, Cinderella in Mink....sigh. I loved Nancy Drew, any series and if I was desperate and stuck at home with no way into town, I would read my brother's Louis L'Amour. Life was good when my mom would take me into town to the public library and I could check out as many books as possible without the librarian raising an eyebrow.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

I liked The Little House on the Prairie and Nancy Drew as well. And I remember Raggedy Ann and Andy books, from a long time ago.