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Topic: Favorite books as a child?
Cutiepieforyou Joined Wed 10/17/07 Posts: 43085	Thu 09/29/11 01:34 PM
Nancy Drew Little House on the Prairie Charolotte's Web

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Thu 09/29/11 01:53 PM
Nancy Drew Little House on the Prairie Charolotte's Web Oh yeah, I read all the Little House on the Prairie books!

mopar4404 Joined Sun 12/18/11 Posts: 10	Mon 12/19/11 11:31 PM
Old Yeller... And the sequel- Savage Sam

afriQueen22 Joined Tue 10/25/11 Posts: 527	Sat 01/14/12 04:48 AM
The Secret Garden Goodnight Mister Tom any Judy Blume books all the Adrian Mole books How Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit The Minpins Wuthering Heights Mansfield Park Some of these books aren't exactly for children but I have an older sister and whatever she read, I just had to read it too.

teadipper Joined Wed 10/19/11 Posts: 2732	Sat 01/14/12 04:52 AM
I had a scholastic book that I don't know that name of but loved, part of it went: ROLLING OVER, ROLLING UNDER, AS THE CAPTAIN ROARED LIKE THUNDER. STAND AT ATTENTION LIKE A SOLDER. COUNTING ONE, TWO, THREE. It was about animals on a ship and of course, the captain was a lion. I was also big on Richard Scary books.

teadipper Joined Wed 10/19/11 Posts: 2732	Sat 01/14/12 04:54 AM
Oh ya and all the Ramona and Super Fudge books. And of course, the usual Judy Blume. AND S.E. Hinton. Oh and this book of all the greatest poems written by Americans.

1SOPHIAIUX Joined Sun 10/09/11 Posts: 881	Sat 01/14/12 05:38 AM Edited by 1SOPHIAIUX on Sat 01/14/12 05:45 AM
Aesop's Fables. my Dad read to me! El Quijote De la Mancha Comic books: The Three Musketeers. Treasured these. Cri-cri. (Mexican folcklore: reading plus lyrics of popular songs) Mafalda (Argentinian comic books) Snoopy. El Principito. Story telling : exposure and respect to indigenist myths and values: Mainly: Mayan;Olmec;Aztec.

Lottierose Joined Sun 12/18/11 Posts: 97	Tue 01/17/12 02:25 AM
The enid blyton books, mr men and paddington when i was very young,nancy drew the hardy boys when i was older still the same love detective stories also horror and black comedies now :-)

Bravalady Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 1034	Sat 01/21/12 05:20 PM
Black Beauty, and yes The Black Stallion. I read Old Yeller but was too heartbroken by it to consider it a favorite. I had large gray book with dozens of short stories that I've never seen anywhere else. Some were realistic and some were fantasy. I have no idea what the name was, but I loved that book. Honestly, the World Book Encyclopedia was endlessly fascinating to me. So, I'm a nerd.

englishteach Joined Thu 01/19/12 Posts: 6	Sun 01/22/12 06:51 AM
The Madeline series was a favorite of mine. I also loved Bunnicula which I was lucky enough to do with some of my younger students a few years back. Really reminded me how funny the series is and to see my kids get so excited about it.

englishteach Joined Thu 01/19/12 Posts: 6	Sun 01/22/12 06:54 AM
Someone mentioned Adrian Mole which I also loved. Have you read any of the series of his as an adult? Judy Blume - classic Little Women - still makes me cry I'l have to check my parent's garage as I have kept many of them and this thread is making me nostalgic.

Shy_Emo_chick Joined Fri 04/01/11 Posts: 4393	Sun 01/22/12 12:12 PM
'The B.F.G (big friendly giant)' by Roald Dahl, 'James and The Giant Peach' (can't remember who wrote that), 'Miffy The Rabbit', 'Spot The Dog' (about a Jack Russell), 'The Hungry Caterpillar', Anything else by Roald Dahl

Shy_Emo_chick Joined Fri 04/01/11 Posts: 4393	Sun 01/22/12 12:12 PM Edited by Shy_Emo_chick on Sun 01/22/12 12:15 PM


Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Mon 01/23/12 04:00 PM
'James and The Giant Peach' (can't remember who wrote that), Roald Dahl

The_Pete_Man Joined Sat 09/15/07 Posts: 21383	Mon 01/23/12 04:30 PM
Encyclopedias. When I was a kid, the school system I went to was a joke, but I always loved learning. So, I would enthusiatically read encyclopedia articles about things I wanted to learn. When I first discovered I could do this, it was like discovering something magical.

Bravalady Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 1034	Mon 01/23/12 10:40 PM
My uncle was a salesman for World Book, and I guess he was pretty good. So I expect he gave my parents a set when my brother and I were born. Part of the reason I liked it was that it had see-through pages on the human body. One page showed the muscles, one page had the bones, one page had the circulatory system, etc. You flipped each one on top of the next to see how they fit together. It was pretty cutting edge for the time. The other thing was that it had lots and lots of illustrations of cat and dog and horse breeds. Pictures of animals always do it for me.

Sin_and_Sorrow Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 5757	Tue 01/24/12 01:29 AM
If we are referring to just kids books: "There's A Monster at the End of this Book" Was one of my favorite books. >.> Little up in age: I loved reading Young Indiana Jones, Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, and Stephen King. >.> Yeah, that's right.. I read It. :O I read it from start to finish in 1996. :O

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Tue 01/24/12 02:17 AM
I can remember Goodnight Moon being read to me when I was very small. Also enjoyed many of the other books listed of course but thought I'd add a couple more to the list. Harold and the Purple Crayon The Little Engine that Could The first series I ever read completely was the Matt Christopher books at least I read all of the books in the series that they had at the library. 8^) Here is a link to some other childhood favorites in a Happy Mother's Day book discussion... http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/happy-mothers-day-book-style/

Chloe23Irish Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 717	Tue 01/24/12 03:11 AM
All I remember is Roald Dahl. Oh and Goodnight Mister Tom.

ajagirl Joined Wed 10/20/10 Posts: 2256	Tue 01/24/12 12:28 PM
Si Malakas at Si Maganda I never read an English book when I was a child but if I did, I would be reading Junie B. Jones :D