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Favorite Childhood Books
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I remember picking up one of my mom's books, and being amazed at how tiny the print seemed compared to my books. I couldn't wait until I was able to read the books with the small print like my mom!
Favorite books: The Secret Garden, Encyclopedia Brown, Lois Duncan books (they were a bit supernatural), and I plowed my way through the Native American legends section at my school's library. I also had a book of Greek myths that I liked to read frequently.
Favorite books: The Secret Garden, Encyclopedia Brown, Lois Duncan books (they were a bit supernatural), and I plowed my way through the Native American legends section at my school's library. I also had a book of Greek myths that I liked to read frequently.


My favourite child's book of today is one that I bought for my son when he was at playschool. It is called Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Giraffes-Cant...

Where the Red Fern Grows (I cried and cried)
The Chronicles of Narnia
Romeo & Juliet (I know- not technically a "book")
Nancy Drew stories
Alfred Hitchcock stories
Any Mythology- greek, norse, whatever I could get my hands on
I am so sure there are many more that I am forgetting.

My favourites were all the Christopher Robin books including the verses, illustrated by E. H. Shepard: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, and I re-read them over and over again (still do sometimes!)

So, even though I don't exactly prescribe to Xtian thought anymore, I'm sad I don't have the books anymore.





As a kid I read everything I could, but remember Nancy Drew, Dr Seuss, and Beverly Cleary books. I loved non-fiction even when I was young, and read children's dictionaries. (I was preparing for Babble.) At about 15 I discovered The Catcher in the Rye and re-read that one regularly.
In my practice as a pediatrician I enjoy talking to kids about reading books. Kids are amazed when I discuss Harry Potter books with them. I get "cool points" too.