What were your favorite books from your childhood?- Page 2

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:24pm

I didn't read when I was younger (Actually it was my wife that got me reading) but my mom says that when I was really little, I love the COOKIE MONSTER COUNTING BOOK

[justagirl2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:32pm

Updated On: 3/9/17 at 09:32 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:38pm

Does anyone else remember a book called "No Flying In the House?"

I was crazy about that one as a kid. I got it through Scholastic Books, I think.

Also the 14 original Oz books by Baum. Every damn one of 'em. I now own the Books Of Wonder series hardback editions of all of them (replicas of the original first editions). Such amazing stories and illustrations.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (both books)... which was DEEPLY disturbing to me. Still is.

The Mary Poppins books (four of 'em). Also, Phantom Tollbooth.

And... The Exorcist. Swear to God. My parents told me I could go see the movie (I was nine at the time)... IF I read the whole book first and decided I still wanted to see it after that.

(Okay, understand that my parents were both actors. I had been acting myself since 5 years old, so I "got" that the film was make-believe, the blood was fake, the effects were fake, etc.) And I was a bit warped myself.

I read the whole book in a bout three days... and it scared the crap out of me. I insisted that my dad take me to the movie after that. A bet's a bet, right? He was more freaked out than I was, because at least I knew what was coming next in the story. It was such a huge impact on me as a child, and it's funny how I consider that a children's book because that's when I first read it. Perception is everything.

(I also consider Sgt. Pepper's by the Beatles a "children's album" because those songs are as ingrained in me as much as any Disney ditty ever was.)

[Chenofan #1]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:25pm

Pants down the best book was Pet The Bunny. I still read it when iI'm bored...really bored.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:38pm

Does anyone remember A WRINKLE IN TIME?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:48pm

HANS BRINKER

and

HANS BRINKER AND THE SILVER SKATES

[singingwendy]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:48pm

Spider...you reminded me of one of my favorites when I was little..."The Monster at the End of the Book", starring Grover, from Sesame Street.

As I got older I loved all the Beverly Clearys...both the Ramona and the Henry Higgins series. Then I got caught up in the Betsy-Tacy books. Then the Little House on the Prairie series. Then the Anne of Green Gables series. Guess once I found an author I liked, I stuck with them!

I also loved Judy Blume. Anyone else remember sneaking into the adult section to take out "Forever" and convincing your mom it was OK because it was Judy Blume?

[singingwendy]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:48pm

sorry..double post! Updated On: 1/13/06 at 10:48 PM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:52pm

I posted like 15 books.

However, I forgot "Heckedy Peg" That book was my life for the longest time. It was my bedtime story and I would make my parents read it over and over and over. At one time I even had the damn book memorized!!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:53pm

- The whole series of Anne Of Green Gables
- Babysitters Club
- Sweet Valley High and University
- Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys
- Encyclopedia Brown
- Boxcar Children
- Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret
- 1984

Updated On: 1/13/06 at 10:53 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 10:54pm

*gasp* Of course I remember A Wrinkle In Time. Crazy adventures in theoretical physics! What a head trip that book was.

I concur with a lot of the authors and books named above, and would like to add Marguerite Henry, who wrote some great horse books.

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:00pm

Dollypop - thank you so much for reminding me of HANS BRINKER AND THE SILVER SKATES. I must have read that book more than 20 times!

I also loved the Oz series of books by L. Frank Baum, Misty of Chincoteague, The Black Stallion (obviously I was in my 'horse' period), Little Women, Joe's Boys, and Little Men.

Later on came Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:02pm

1984? That's an interesting children's book

For me it was all about a cricket in times square

[Plum]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:04pm

Please. I read The Color Purple when I was 12.

Not that I really got it, but I did read it.
Updated On: 1/13/06 at 11:04 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

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

Oh, as an eleven-year-old, don't think it didn't confuse me. We even got to watch the movie in class!

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:07pm

I have never seen the movie...any good?

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:08pm

*gasp* Of course I remember A Wrinkle In Time. Crazy adventures in theoretical physics! What a head trip that book was.

If you reach the series' last instalment, MANY WATERS, you get to hang out with Noah and the gang and they build the Ark! No kidding. My favourite of the four books, though, was A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:12pm

oh yeah, Plum? I asked for, and received for Christmas at age 11...the Warren Commission report on the Assassination of JFK. AND I READ IT!

Before I became a strange child...my favorites were:

Harry the Dog (The dirty dog, No roses for Harry, etc)
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Encyclopedia Brown (a whole series of mystery books)
Nancy Drew series
Trixie Beldon (the poor people's Nancy Drew)

[mominator]

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

Oh so many, I was a real book worm.
Some of my favs....
The Phantom Tollbooth. I now live in the same town as Norton Juster and see him quite often (now that ladies and gentlemen is a real thrill!)
The Hobbit
Narnia series
Hop on Pop
Pooh series
Anne of Green Gables
The Giving Tree
The Selfish Giant
anything I could find on Joan of Arc
anything on archeology
and lastly anything on volcanoes
Oh god how could I forget Harold and the Purple Crayon!!!

Updated On: 1/13/06 at 11:13 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:23pm

Anything Asimov, and especially the Foundation series.
Agatha Christie's Poirot books.
Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Anne of Green Gables and sequels.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
A Girl Called Disaster
I read a lot of Jules Verne. Did I mention I was an odd child?

Ooh! And anything by Lynn Reid Banks. She's best-known for The Indian in the Cupboard, but her other books were great, too.
Updated On: 1/13/06 at 11:23 PM

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:26pm

Many I read have already been listed, but to add:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Pippi Longstocking
The first two Little House Books
The Curious George Books

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:26pm

Agatha Christie's Poirot books.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
A Girl Called Disaster
I read a lot of Jules Verne. I loved Verne

Plum, I was obsessed with all of those along with a smattering of Dickens and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

(Along with CHARLOTTE'S WEb, Stuart Little, and the Trumpeter Swan when I was really really little.)

Updated On: 1/13/06 at 11:26 PM

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:26pm

I am so glad I started this thread. It is wonderful to see how are childhoohs were influenced by books.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:31pm

Ooh, I loved To Kill A Mockingbird, too. And I didn't want to repeat what other already said, but The Phantom Tollbooth was always one of my favorites. I even have 2 copies to this day, though I'm not sure why.

*thinks* I also adored Catherine, Called Birdy. Looking back it seemed I had a thing for female protagonists in historical fiction.

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:36pm

Hawaii
Great Expectations
The Carpetbaggers
Tropic of Cancer