What were your favorite books from your childhood? — Page 3

And I didn't want to repeat what other already said,

Hmmph, hello Anne of Green Gables!

And I forgot E.B. White!

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I understand that, I was torn but it seemed better to give an acurate representation of what I liked than to worry about that.

Some books should be on everyone's list.

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and

The Once and Future King

Mine was the illustrated edition.

Well, the Little House books weren't perfectly accurate either. They were obviously written for kids, so certain things were left out and changed. For example, Mary was sighted in Little House in the Big Woods, but magically blind by Little House on the Prarie. No mention of the scarlet fever that caused it. *shrug* Not that I'm expecting it- the books are listed under fiction, not autobiography.

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My favorites (that I can remember) were Toby Runs Away and a book of nursery rhymes with "I see the moon, the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me" in it.

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A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (the whole series)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (whole series)
anything by Edgar Allan Poe (I'd read his collected works by the time I was 10)

Another weird kid to add to the bunch... =)

Updated On: 1/14/06 at 11:19 AM

I think I need to re-read the Wrinkle In Time books. This thread got me excited about them again.

*childhood regression begins*

(oh, who the hell am I kidding? I never grew out of it in the first place?)

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This has been such a great thread to read. Chalk me up as another - uh, unusual? - kid. I read most of Poe's stories in grammar school, discovered The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien when I was 13 and have read it quite a few times since. Loved Dr. Suess when I was very young, the illustrated "Classics" series, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea", and HG Wells' "The Time Machine" especially. "National Velvet", "The Adventures of Robin Hood", and for a few years had a love affair with anything by Charles Dickens, especially "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield." I was also very impressed by Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and desperately wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft!

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Harold and the Purple Crayon was definitly up there. I also LOVED Green Eggs and Ham. I also liked some dumb little book called Kate Skates (just because it had my name in the title)