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VirginPotty -> What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 11:05:19 AM)

All these childhood memory threads made me think about my 2 favorite books growning up....."Charlotte's Web" & "Ramona & Beezus".  Those 2 I ALWAYS checked out of the library!!

Care to share your favorite (s)?[:)]



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 11:14:19 AM)

alexander's terrible horrible no good very bad day
where the wild things are
bunnicula!
funny optical illusion books my mom would get
goosebumps books -- i'd fly through a couple of those a day, seriously
dragon's bait
several of those silly books about Wayside School =p

ETA: -- must add the BFG, and misty of chincoteague (to this day, i really want to visit chincoteague and assateague and see the wild horses)



ParappaTheDapper -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:06:51 PM)

Great question!

The 21 Balloons
Where the Wild Things Are
The Phantom Tollbooth
Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare
A couple of awesome pop-up books (a haunted house one and a dinosaur one)
Pretty much any Choose Your Own Adventure book
The Children's Homer (stories about the Trojan War and Odysseus for kids)



JstAnotherSub -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:12:39 PM)

Pippi Longstocking. I still want to be her!

All the "Little House" books.  I read them over and over and over.



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:13:49 PM)

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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

Pippi Longstocking. I still want to be her!




holy spoots, i can't believe i forgot that one!

and the Boxcar Children books
aaaaand the Egypt Game

and choose your own adventure books were the shiz, fo' rilio ^_^



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:16:15 PM)

you know, since i first read Grendel when i was 16, i think i can add that, too.
it's still probably my favorite book ever.
when i first read it i didn't really understand most of it (lots and lots of nihilism, oh and existentialism), but i related to the general character story. now i understand more of the philosophy, but the character story is still the most important part.
great book.



LaTigresse -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:17:45 PM)

By the time I left grade school, the school librarian said she thought I had read every book in their library. Granted, it was a small town school but I was a voracious reader. My all time favs though, as a horse crazy kid.....Walter Farley's Black Stallion books.



juliaoceania -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:24:48 PM)

Laura Ingalls Wilder books



SilverMark -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:32:03 PM)

There was a series of biographies...I read every one of them...I wish I could remember what they were called.



LaTigresse -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:35:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Laura Ingalls Wilder books


In grade school, I had a teacher that read to us every morning. By the end of the school year she had read the entire series to us. She was an awesome teacher.



NuevaVida -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:37:44 PM)

The Little House series, by Laura Ingals Wilder and the Henry & Beezus/Ramona the Pest books by Beverly Cleary.

Also loved Stuart Little, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle.

One all time favorite was Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhough.



LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:39:33 PM)

Nancy & Plum and the one about the Poppy Seed Cakes.

Those were the first ones right off the top of my head. Now I'll add:

Nancy Drew Mysteries

Black Stallion books.

The Egyptian

Anything by Pearl S. Buck

Yeah I was a little precocious in the reading department. Our local branch of the city library would only allow children to check out books in their suggested age range, so my mother went down there & convinced them I could check out anything I wanted to read. And I did.



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:41:55 PM)

i also really liked the tale of the napkin rabbit, though i couldn't figure out how to make one
and the velveteen rabbit



juliaoceania -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 12:42:32 PM)


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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Laura Ingalls Wilder books


In grade school, I had a teacher that read to us every morning. By the end of the school year she had read the entire series to us. She was an awesome teacher.




I think series are wonderful for kids, because they grow with the books. That is why I loved the fact my son liked reading Harry Potter, which starts out for kids as young as third grade, and then they get more and more complex...

I also liked Charlie and the Chocolate factory



windchymes -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 2:04:36 PM)

I had a series of books about the Happy Hollisters. Big family of five kids, ages 12 down thru 4, with "perfect" parents, who lived on the shore of a lake, apparently got to travel a lot because of their father's business, and they solved mysteries in just about every setting imaginable, from NYC, Florida, Mexico, Switzerland, the circus, a movie set, a pony farm, a ranch out west, you name it. I read those over and over again.

Also, the "B is for Betsy" series, the "Betsy, Tacy & Tib" series, all the Beverly Cleary books, and a set of family medical encyclopedias my grandma had.



poise -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 2:47:17 PM)

Awwww! My favoritest favorite book of all time was The Poky Little Puppy.
I remember spending a few weeks in the hospital as a teenager, and
my oldest brother, who had been stationed out of state, came to visit me.
He had a brand new copy of the book, and it made all my pain go away.
For a little bit at least. [:D]

Isn't he just the cutest puppy ever!?
[image]http://www.sharedbookstore.com/images/products/familykids/poky_product_book.jpg[/image]



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 3:01:42 PM)

awww that's a great one! the saggy baggy elephant is adorable too ^_^



Wolf2Bear -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 3:03:36 PM)

Any book written by Beatrix Potter,
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott



LillyBoPeep -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 3:05:31 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Wolf2Bear

Any book written by Beatrix Potter,



agreed ^_^ i need to stop posting on this thread; good grief
but i adored beatrix potter, too.

i also had a Mother Goose who would read stories to you on tape while you followed along with the books. she was wonderful. ^_^ i still have her somewhere, but she doesn't work anymore.



juliaoceania -> RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? (6/16/2011 3:12:53 PM)

When I was REALLLY little I liked Harry the Dirty Dog and Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.



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