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Topic: Favorite books as a child?
MariahsFantasy Joined Mon 11/28/11 Posts: 6593	Fri 01/27/12 11:53 PM
The Velvatine Rabbit The Secret Garden Romona Quimby Age 8 lol The Face on the Milk Carton

Adonis_ Joined Sat 01/28/12 Posts: 5	Sat 01/28/12 12:54 PM Edited by Adonis_ on Sat 01/28/12 12:55 PM
I loved a book called Foeksia de miniheks (Foeksia the mini witch) and I also loved to be read from Roald Dahl's books and Harry Potter.

mskimmi Joined Sat 01/14/12 Posts: 7	Sat 01/28/12 01:39 PM
has to be stig of the dump. or juno and the paycock.

nalenna Joined Sun 02/05/12 Posts: 6	Sun 02/05/12 02:01 PM
Freedom for a Cheetah.... the Box Car children series..

DaddyTime Joined Wed 02/01/12 Posts: 530	Sun 02/05/12 02:09 PM
My uncle gave me a subscription to playboy when I was 8, honestly I thank playboy for my vocabulary and ability to read. an actual children's book would be green egg's and ham and animal goes bye bye. and no I am not joking about playboy.

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Sun 02/05/12 02:14 PM Edited by msharmony on Sun 02/05/12 02:14 PM
my first favorites were Dr Seuss,,,,lol I also loved the Brer Rabbit and Curious George series

newarkjw Joined Sun 05/25/08 Posts: 17172	Sun 02/05/12 02:59 PM
The Five Chinese Brothers was always my favorite.......

Spidercmb Joined Fri 04/27/07 Posts: 13137	Sun 02/05/12 03:01 PM
The Phantom Tollbooth

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 02/05/12 05:58 PM
Where the Wild Things Are great choice! We painted the book - My kids did a mural of the sky - I drew the birds & clouds- they painted the sky and glued on the birds & clouds we also did caves and forest and made the classroom into Where The Wild Things are I kept the sky mural for 12 years - mainly cuz it was some of the best drawing I ever did! My favorite childhood book was a book of ABCs by Phyllis McGinley and The Cat In The Hat by Dr Seuss - all the Seuss books as I got a little older: The Daphne Dumarier mysteries In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (my 7th grade english teacher called my mom because he was worried about me - I read it 3 times in one school year) Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged - I was a good reader in jr high John Hershey's Hiroshima and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring then in my senior year I discovered Mark Twain - Huck Finn has remained my favorite book

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 02/05/12 05:59 PM
The Five Chinese Brothers was always my favorite....... Yes I remeber that! It was great!!!!

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 02/05/12 05:59 PM
my first favorites were Dr Seuss,,,,lol I also loved the Brer Rabbit and Curious George series same

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 02/05/12 06:02 PM
Oh and The Girl In The White Hat I forget the author it was abut a girl who found a white hat in her mother's attic and when she wore it she could fly....

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Sun 02/05/12 09:18 PM
The Five Chinese Brothers was always my favorite....... I loved that one.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Sun 02/05/12 09:21 PM
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. Madeline was my favorite as well.

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Mon 02/06/12 06:46 PM
yes I also love Madeline and The Secret Garden The Happy Hollisters also - a children's mystery series

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Mon 02/06/12 07:59 PM
oh and my mom had original publications - printing of a set of the Alice books with original Tenille illustrations - I read & reread those Alice in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass

Mirage4279 Joined Sat 09/04/10 Posts: 2466	Mon 02/06/12 09:14 PM
I was not really a child it was more like 5-7 grade and my favorite book was King Arthur actually kind of advanced reading for 5th grader.

jaded72 Joined Tue 12/06/11 Posts: 1456	Mon 02/06/12 10:00 PM
Jemima Puddleduck, Trixie Belden Encyclopedia Brown My family had a subscription to National Geographic which was well loved, year after year. Everyone else has listed many of my favourites. I've always been a voracious reader, so there's not much I haven't read that would be considered "classic" material. Except for Stephen King! Not for me.

Shy_Emo_chick Joined Fri 04/01/11 Posts: 4393	Fri 02/10/12 07:50 PM
Sweet Valley High (was also a tv series, after the books were successfull), about two twin sisters. One is evil. The other is an angel. I had a girly crush on them, when they appeared on tv. The Babysitters Club.

Comet48 Joined Tue 02/14/12 Posts: 8	Tue 02/14/12 10:50 PM
When I was a child, I was fascinated and mesmerized by the Foundation, Robot and Empire series by Isaac Asimov. It was my first taste of hard science fiction and loved every second of it. Immediately hooked. Those books are what made me become an avid reader of all genres.