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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:14:59 PM

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" Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Tales "
" The Complete Works of William Shakespeare "
" A Little Princess "
" Oliver Twist "
" Robinson Crusoe "
" FoxFire " Volumes One and Four
" The American BoyScout Handbook " circa 1960-something

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:20:54 PM

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Green eggs and ham.....read it my daughter, grand kids and all the grand nieces and nephews!

Charlotts web was my fave along with stewart little and nancy drew books. Bought charlotts web for my grand daughter and read it to her while she was spending her summer week with me....enjoyed it all over again!

I did book reports on charlotts web in the 3rd 4th and 5th grade! LOL. Went to diffrent schools, dad was military.

I bought the harry potter series for my granddaughter only to find out she was not intrested so I read them myself......so far 3 times!! And will read tthem again....like watching a movie again only better because they last longer!

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:28:26 PM

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The Wind in the Willows.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:40:03 PM

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When I was REALLY little, my grandma had a stack she bought and read to me all the time....Green Eggs & Ham, Go Dog Go, Sam and the Firefly, Robert the Rose Horse, The Big Red Ball, The Big Honey Hunt (Berenstain Bears), and of course, The Cat in the Hat & TCITH Comes Back. My all-time favorite, I think, is One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:45:55 PM

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Since my childhood was long ago & most if not all of you have no idea what those books were, I'll tell you my daughter's favorites:

Any thing by Richard Scarry. She loved his books so much that they are still in like new condition 40 years later. And she used to tell me that she would marry him when she grew up.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 3:51:11 PM

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I'm in the One Fish Two Fish camp, with 'Tell Me, Cat' and Winnie ther Pooh, too.
A little older: 'The Blue Castle', 'The Silver Skates' and 'Lost in the Barrens'

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Ooh! Ooh! The Saggy Baggy Elephant, too! :-)
Thaaaanks for the memories . . .

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 4:16:45 PM

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 4:30:14 PM

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I attended a very small school in rural Missouri. The library was divided by grade (K-6) and students were only allowed to check out books at their grade level or below unless they were in the advanced reading class. Then they could check out books one grade level above theirs.

There was no such thing as a program for gifted students back then so they had absolutely no idea what to do with me. In first grade, I was given free run of the library. I started in the 6th grade section and worked my way down. By the time I left, I'd read every book in the place. The highlights include:

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Black Stallion books
Anything I could find about dinosaurs
The Trixie Belden mysteries
The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
To Kill A Mockingbird
Misty of Chicoteague and its sequels

I also read the works of Edgar Allan Poe and some of Shakespeare's plays at my great-grandmother's house.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 4:33:32 PM

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When my son was two he had to watch the same movie every night to go to sleep predator

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 8:11:05 PM

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All of the Laura Ingalls Wilder ones, at least twice, anything by Beverly Cleary, The Bobbsey Twins books, the Trixie Belden books, liked her better than Nancy Drew. Interestingly enough, about 6 weeks ago, I checked out and reread yet again Charlotte's web and the Winnie the Pooh books. After I saw Jaws, anything shark related.....the town librarian thought I was weird.....I've forgotten more books than I've read, and I read voraciously! The limit at the library growing up was 6 books......and blow thru those in two days! If we had library cards, I'd have worn them out big time! The limit here at our library is like 20.......

Oh, and I loved mysteries too....Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen, and then there was the scary stuff. I must've went thru all the ghost story books at least twice! Course, then I'd be up all night, scared of getting eaten in my bed, but hey....that's part of the fun of it, right?

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 8:39:15 PM

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Wow, what didn't. I read...

TOP: Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh

The Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright

Famous Five & horsy girly books by Enid Blighton

Horsey stuffs by Walter Farley, Marguerite Henry, etc. The list goes on!

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 8:43:37 PM

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I was a kid so long ago they didn't have books, just stone tablets. I seem to remember a new one that started I am the lord thy God

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/16/2011 8:48:38 PM

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My favorite books when I was a kid(around 9 or so) were in order:

#1 Flowers for Algernon.
#2 Stephen Kings It
#3 Peter Benchly's The Beast
#4 The Art of War
#5 The Five Rings
#6 The Lord of the Rings books and the Hobbit
#7 Goosebumps.
#8 Harry Potter
#9 Cycle of the Werewolf
#10 Hearts in Atlantis.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/17/2011 5:37:43 AM

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Narnia series
Black Stallion series
Chincoteague series
Phantom Tollbooth (thanks to whoever posted that..I need to get another copy)
one about a rocking horse that comes to life (I remember that someone here found a listing for it once..but I've forgotten the name.. I *DO* remember that I could get a copy for smething like 600.00!!)
the Wizard of Oz series

many many more that I am drawing a blank on. Guess it's time to find the local library and search the kids section!

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/17/2011 5:48:42 AM

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The Happy Hollisters
Ramona Quimby books
What was the one about the guy ... and there was a donut machine... and it wouldn't stop making donuts( why didn't they just unplug it or get rid of the batter?)
.... I looked it up.... Homer Price... Loved that crazy kid!

All the John Jakes books - I credit him for making history exciting!

Now I love the Junie B Jones books and The Paper Bag Princess. YAY!

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/17/2011 11:28:48 AM

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Several of you mentioned Laura Ingalls books, I love the show & own all the dvd sets (yes I do, I'm so ashamed) but I could never get into the books and I LOVED reading when I was growning up.

I loved reading about the "Box Car Children".
Hannah Fox too.

Once I found my mother's book, "Last Tango in Paris" in the basement & learned about written porn. I wanted to read it in my room but alas I was caught trying to smuggle it past mum.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/17/2011 11:36:48 AM

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Actually the book I remember best is about the Marsh-family.... (don't know the title or writer and I'm lazy today)

And there was a series of books about a twin who'd had divers adventures (that;s dutch)

And the books of Dick Laan, about a little man (pinkysize) and his wife..... of wich I had collected all books.

When I was about 18 or so and we were moving to another home in another town, I went to our local childrenshospital and gave them all away.
So I do not own those books anymore.

Nowadays I have digital books. I 've been reading digitally for some 6 years now.

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/18/2011 6:29:05 AM

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for whoever mentioned Phantom Tollbooth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlwCY-UNTUQ (i'd no idea that they'd made a film of it!!)

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/18/2011 5:48:57 PM

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I read then like I read now: voraciously

I read thousands of books and honestly can't remember lots of titles. Here's a few worn favorites I had as a little one though:

http://www.amazon.com/Caleb-Kate-William-Steig/dp/0374410380/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308444299&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Fish-Fisherman-His-Wife/dp/B0010KQ0KI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308444423&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Old-Man-Could-Read/dp/B000K2OAM2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308444461&sr=1-1

Oh those covers bring back memories

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RE: What was (were) your favorite book (s) as a child? - 6/18/2011 6:23:46 PM

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The Nancy Drew mysteries
My Friend Flicka/Thunderhead/Green Grasses of Wyoming trilogy
Chronicles of Narnia
the story of Helen Keller
The Readers Digest books (pretty much all of them)
books on King Arthur
any books on Mythology
My parent's book on rebuilding engines
TV Guide
Cereal boxes

...pretty much anything in print that I could get my hands on

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