What is your favorite book from childhood?

[kalphs]

What is your favorite book from childhood?

[Joyofsixreboot]

I was the stereotypical book worm. Reading is the most solid memory I have of childhood. My favorite books were Nancy Drew. Not great literature but told me girls could be brave and smart. No small feat in the early '70's.

[plain jane]

Where the Red Fern Grows. I bought the book from a Scholastic sale at my school, not having much of a clue what it would be about. Little did I know how much I would turn out to love it. I read that book so many times I almost had it memorized and I have so many great memories of curling up and reading it. I cried each and every time. I LOVE that book. Reading it is one of my favorite childhood memories. :)

[Guest Alte Veste Academy]

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Imprimis]

 

 

Little Women

and the

Nancy Drew

series.

 

[Jilly]

 

The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter, I still have my copy, and it is one of my most treasured items.

[ElizabethB]

All of them!

 

I re-read Helen Keller and Narnia the most, though.

[pdalley]

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. I loved the entire series but that one in particular.

 

Also Then There Were Five - part of the Melendy series.

[FO4UR]

Isn't it sad that I can't answer this question.

 

I HS so I can enjoy all the books I missed as a child.:D

[Lady Q]

Many, but the one that stands out the most right now is Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers.

[lisabelle]

I LOOOOOVED the Wizard of Oz books when I was a child. I had a good collection of them when I was young and loaned them to my sil when her girls were little. That was almost 20 years ago and frankly, I'm afraid to ask for them back. Coming out of my parents' house they were probably in a cat-pee stained box and I wouldn't blame my sil if she just threw them away. And it's surprising how hard it is to find the old...from the '70's...hardbacks.

 

I also loved the old girls' series books: Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames and there was another I can picture in my head but can't think of the name of. I also loved Betsy-Tacy. Even more than Little Women I loved all of Louisa May Alcott's children's books. I really enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time but enjoyed the later books in the series even more.

 

One book I never see make these kinds of lists is Mandy by Julie Edwards (Julie Andrews). It's a very, very sweet story.

 

Though I really, really tried, I could never get into Anne of Green Gables even though I love the miniseries to death!

[Unicorn.]

The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter, I still have my copy, and it is one of my most treasured items.

 

OMG! Me too! I still have mine, and my kids loved it as much as I did.

[Lady Q]

Though I really, really tried, I could never get into Anne of Green Gables even though I love the miniseries to death!

 

I like the Anne of Green Gables books fine, but the LM Montgomery series I really really got into was the one about Emily (Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest). Probably because Emily was a writer, like I wanted to be. :D

[Stacia]

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[kalanamak]

Bristle Face

 

http://www.amazon.com/Bristle-Face-Zachary-Ball/dp/0140364447

 

and The Egg and I. I think I read them both in 6th grade.

[NanceXToo]

I loved:

 

The Nancy Drew series

 

The Happy Hollisters series

 

anything by Judy Blume

 

anything by Ruth Chew

 

the A Wrinkle In Time series

 

and a book called "The Girl With The Silver Eyes" stuck with me all this time- the title and a vague premise of what the book was about. I saw it not long ago at a used book sale and picked it up for my daughter to read (she hasn't read it yet). It's by Willo Davis Roberts.

 

Oh, and all the "Fairy Books," the ones that come in different colors (even though some of them seriously creeped me out)!

[BridgeTea]

The Borrowers, probably because it wasn't a real stretch to imagine little people living under the floorboards of our old home and coming out to borrow any of the little trinkets that always seemed to be lying around. I'm pretty sure I went through a stage where I didn't ever want my room to be too tidy, in case Pod or Arrietty needed something I had. That was so hard to explain to my mom when I was seven!

[littlebug42]

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler which remains my favorite book to this day. Also, my favorite fairy tale ever is East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I used to make my mother read it to me all of the time.

[Mothersweets]

Harry Cat's Pet Puppy by George Seldon. I loved this book!

[MeaganS]

The Giver and Anne of Green Gables were probably my most favorite. When I was a bit younger, I loved The Boxcar Children too. I used to think that Gilbert was the perfect man, and come to think of it, my husband is a lot like him. :001_smile:

[KatieJ]

Little Women

Trixie Beldon

Donna Parker

Bobbsey Twins

The Borrowers

Heidi

Edited October 3, 2010 by KatieinMich

[Julie in AZ]

A Wrinkle in Time

[Mejane]

When I was really young, The Bobbsey Twins books (am I dating myself or what?). A bit older, Little Women and Heidi. As a young teen, Gone With the Wind.

Edited October 3, 2010 by Mejane

[Perry]

Reading is the most solid memory I have of childhood. My favorite books were Nancy Drew. Not great literature but told me girls could be brave and smart. No small feat in the early '70's.

I loved these too (but in the late 60s). They were what really got me to love reading.

 

One book that I really loved as a young child was Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book of poems about colors. It's the only book of poetry that I've ever really liked. :)

[Chelle in MO]

Amy's Long Night by Nancy Garber. My grandmother gave it to me when I was five and had to have a minor surgical procedure done. It was lost over time, then my dh bought one for me a few years ago! Sweet!

[kewb]

The first 3 that popped into my mind:

The Secret Garden

Ann of Green Gables series

Pippi Longstocking

[Lady Q]

I'm pretty sure I went through a stage where I didn't ever want my room to be too tidy, in case Pod or Arrietty needed something I had. That was so hard to explain to my mom when I was seven!

 

That's so cool!

 

See, I knew that no one was living in our brick walls and stone floors in Karachi! :P

[Garga]

The Swing in the Summerhouse

Freckles

The Secret Garden

The Rats of Nimph (sp?)

Mandy

 

ETA: Trixie Belden

Edited October 3, 2010 by Garga

[kristavws]

While not a single book, I loved all the Little House on the Prairie books. I remember saving up my baby-sitting money, so that I could buy the next one in the series.

 

Krista

[AndyJoy]

I have a hard time picking a definitive favorite, but I will say that the book I re-read the most times was Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

[Chris in VA]

Mine were A Little Princess by Burnett and the Little House series.

I also loved National Velvet, but I was in 7th grade when I read that one.

[ScoutTN]

Anne of Green Gables, Narnia, My Side of the Mountain and Black Beauty.

 

In middle school, Jane Eyre, LOTR and the Hornblower series.

[Laurie4b]

Rikki Tikki Tavi (read by a third grade teachers)

Little Women (Christmas gift from my parents)

[Mert]

Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Cricket in Times Square

[Gwenhwyfar]

two series that were my faves around 11/12 ~ anne of green gables & flowers in the attic. bit of a contrast there. :laugh:

 

younger ~ i remember having this set of tales... there were a few books, thin, and each book was like.. fairy stories... elf stories... something??? i think one was even cat stories... wonder if anyone knows what i mean.

 

i can almost see them - thin paperback books, each with several (??) stories specific to the fairies/elves/etc that *that* volume was.. it was definitely a set. maybe 4? 5? books? maybe 3? oh i wish i could remember better....

[dm379]

When I was young Baby-Sitter Club books. I remember begging my parents to take me to go stalking Wal-Mart waiting for the new one to come out.

 

A little older, Gone With the Wind

[gingersmom]

Bread and Jam for Frances and Barney Beagle

[ColoradoMom]

The Black Stallion series. I read them all - have them all still in fact! (In perfect condition!) :D

[rwjx2khsmj]

The Secret Garden

[Wheres Toto]

When I was young:

(Anything by Richard Scarry, really...)

 

When I was in middle school:

:iagree: Both of these were absolutely favorites of mine. My little guys now love Richard Scarry too and my oldest loves The Outsiders. I read portions of it to her class in Junior High when they had a program where adults volunteered to come and read to a class.

 

I also loved all the James Herriot books - All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, etc. I wanted to be a vet from the time I was 12.

 

I also loved Watership Down.

 

I also read all the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries.

Edited October 3, 2010 by dottieanna29

[HRAAB]

When I was quite young it was The Happy Hollisters. My dad read to me every night out of them, and that when I learned to read. Then I read from them everyday. After that I graduated to Nancy Drew. Other favorites I remember are Island of the Blue Dolphins, Anne of Green Gables, The Wizard of Oz and probably several dozen more but those are the ones that come to mind first.

[nmoira]

Just So Stories and The Jungle Books

[AlmiraGulch]

Bridge to Terabithia affected me profoundly and I read it over and over again.

 

I also loved anything by Judy Blume and also the Flowers in the Attic series, although I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it. AND I can't believe I was allowed to read them!

[Jilly]

OMG! Me too! I still have mine, and my kids loved it as much as I did.

 

 

My kids love it too! We have spent so much time looking at the pictures debating which bear's house is our favorite. :)

[ChrissySC]

I had three ... My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Charlotte's Web.

 

I remember frequently reading the Lord of the Rings. This was after the anime version of The Hobbit was on television all those long years ago.

[TrixieB]

I loved all the Trixie Belden books, but my favorite was The Secret of the Mansion. I should probably change my avatar... :D

[Gwenhwyfar]

and also the Flowers in the Attic series

 

aha! i knew there had to be others. :laugh:

[Guest]

I am happy to see so many other Nancy Drew fans! Does anyone else still have their copies and occasionally go back to them like I do??

 

I also loved Heidi as a child; growing up in Hawaii, I always yearned for snow and sweaters and seasons.

 

In middle school my otherwise completely unremarkable English teacher read aloud Johnny Tremain. That was the best thing that ever happened in my entire pre-college school life.

[yellowperch]

anne of green gables

little house

tuck everlasting

little princess

secret garden

mandy

pollyanna

and three historical fiction books by Patricia Clapp, including I'm Deborah Sampson and Constance. I can't remember the title of the third one.

chronicles of narnia

harriet the spy

[LibraryLover]

I had a very intense relationship with the Bobbsey Twins series. It was a little crazy, lol. Nan, Bert, Freddie, and Flossie...how I loved those books.