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

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:39pm

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

Hmmph, hello Anne of Green Gables!

And I forgot E.B. White!

[Plum]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:47pm

I haven't slept for longer than 4 hours at a time in 5 days, missy. So if I miss one or two items, I think I'm actually doing okay. :P

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:53pm

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.

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:00am

Those are your favorite childhood books, Jose?

LOL - Explains a lot. You were a very advanced little tyke.

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Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:01am

and

The Once and Future King

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:07am

I wouldn't have understood The Carpetbaggers even if it came illustrated!

Come to think of it, I'm still not real sure....

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:09am

Mine was the illustrated edition.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:11am

Ooh, I loved the illustrated classics series around the first or second grade. I think I had the entire collection.

I hate that they are abridged though, give me the pictures AND the complete text.

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[Plum]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:28am

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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[Therese]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:36am

I guess I should have said, "Was that in the books?"

And Mary isn't blind until "By the Shores of Silver Lake," which is book 5 (including "Farmer Boy," Almanzo's story). I thought the book did mention how she went blind, but I'd have to reread - Silver Lake was always my least favorite because it's the book where Jack the dog dies. I hate books where the dog dies. My 4th grade teacher read "Old Yeller" aloud to us and I was scarred for life.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:41am

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.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:13am

I liked The Phantom Tollbooth a great deal. Fast and funny and imaginative, with great illustrations by Jules Feiffer.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:19am

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... =)
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[Glebb]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:21am

I didn't like to read until I was about 12.
I adored the book 'Nicholas and Alexandra'.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:51pm

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?)

[absolutely fabulous]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 2:20pm

My all time favorite book is Stand in the Wind by Jean Little. Hands down my favorite of all time. Others include:
The Phantom Toll Booth
Bridge to Teribithea (if you ever read, make sure you have a plentiful supply of tissues)

[grizzabella]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 2:37pm

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!

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 4:58pm

When I was really young, it was Panda Palace- I think thats what it was called. It was about animals running a restaurant.

In 6th/7th grade I was really into the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

And in 8th/9th grade I really liked all those autobiography type books. Like Go Ask Alice, Annie's Baby, etc.

[kate2]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 5:02pm

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)

[tacos are great]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 6:27pm

My mom used 'The Little Engine That Could' to teach me to read, so that's got some good memories. The first book I ever read voluntarily was 'Maniac Magee', when I was about seven or eight. I haven't read it in five years, but it's still one of my favorite books. Good story for a kid. I also really enjoyed 'How to Eat Fried Worms'. Taught me a lot about the importance of a good breakfast.