What were your favorite books from your childhood?

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:35pm

My most favorite book was called HARRIET THE HIPPOPATUMUS. She was an adorable pink hippo who simply could't smile. My second favorite was LITTLE WOMEN. Louisa May Allcott has always been a timeless favorite of mine. My third favorite was FANNY HILL. I am just kidding about the last one.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:45pm

make way for ducklings
the phantom tollbooth
that was the first chapter book i read

[DBillyP]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:47pm

THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin, which I have read at least once a year since I was 11 or 12. I also love to pass it along to the young people in my life.

The books in THE GREAT BRAIN series were also favorites.

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:53pm

My favorite book when I was really young was
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:55pm

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Judy Blume books--esp Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great.

[wickedwitchofthechest]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:55pm

I've been mad about Pride and Prejudice since I was about eleven (yes, I know, I've always been a nerd), with The Chronicls of Narnia running a close second for most of my youth. When I was very, very young, my favorite book was a Christmas story from Sweden about trolls poking sausages at a polar bear, which I have, sadly, lost.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:56pm

Matilda by Roald Dahl
Anything by Beverly Cleary
Jane Eyre
Les Miserables

...I was a strange child.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:56pm

Anything by Enid Blyton.

I LOVED Mister Galligano's Circus.

Then, if I go further back, there was Possum Magic by Mem Fox. A truly MAGICAL book...

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:01pm

HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON!!!!!!!!!!
Blueberries For Sal
Ann Likes Red
Where The Wild Things Are
Goodnight Moon
Black Beauty
Make Way For Ducklings
The Velveteen Rabbit
Where The Sidewalk Ends
The Giving Tree
The Narnia Series
The Black Stallion and The Girl
Lad
Jumper
Watership Down
Into The Land of Unicorns
The Saddle Club Series
Flowers For Algernon

umm...I'm sure there are many more. I LOVED all the old books my grandparents gave me from the 30's-50's. Especially the old novels like Lad and Jumper, I adore the way they are written.

Updated On: 1/13/06 at 07:01 PM

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:02pm

i love flowers for algernon

[DBillyP]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:02pm

One of my favorite classes in college was "Children's Literature." We did nothing but read and examine children's books.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:06pm

And HOW could I forget Blubber??! Mama gave me that cuz kids picked on me and cuz I was a lil chubby. I read it by candlelight during Hurricane Alicia in 1984 I kid you not!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:07pm

I still love anything by Dr. Suess. I try to find kids so I can read it to them.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:11pm

My A.P. English teacher read "Green Eggs and Ham" aloud to begin our poetry unit my senior year in high school. By the end, we were all reciting it with her.

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:24pm

Green Eggs and Ham was the first book I ever read.

My favorite as a young kid was Pat the Bunny. As I got older, I loved the Babysitter's Club, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, and Miss Nelson is Missing.

And then, my ultimate girlhood favorite: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

GOD I loved that book.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:29pm

James And The Giant Peach!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:31pm

Honestly, I loved the Little House books. Every last one of them. The Ingalls family was so real to me that when the TV show came on years later, I could never abide watching it.

Those books are my literary equivalent of comfort food. Every so often, I still pick them up and read a chapter or two.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:32pm

I'm embarassed to say that I didn't read much as a child. But I always loved the Dr. Seuss books.

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:41pm

Frog and Toad (cant remember which book)
Amelia Bedilia (dont know the names)
Morris Goes to School i believe was the name.
Wake Up, Mr. B
Buster Catches a Cold


i used to read these ALL the time before i would go to sleep.

Updated On: 1/13/06 at 07:41 PM

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:15pm

All of Beverly Cleary's books
Are You There God It's Me Margaret (there was a time when I'd read it once a month)
The Sleepover Friends Series
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Little House Books

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:43pm

I loved the Boxcar Children Series.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:49pm

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Sideway Stories from Way Side School

Misty

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:02pm

I loved the babysitters club.
Judy Blume

When I was little

"Are you my mother?"
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be"
"The very hungry catepillar"
"Curious George"
"Goodnight Moon"
"Llamas in Pajamas"
"Everyone Poops" (Yes, a toilet training book)
"Corduroy"
"Caps for Sale"

I liked all the books where you pressed the noises on the side when ever the picture was shown in the book.

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:11pm

Well, going WAY back... The Eric Carl cooks!

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:21pm

you can never go wrong with Green Eggs and Ham!