favorite books you read/remember from childhood

[flybye023]

I read the Little House books, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, The Three Investigators, several of the Newberry award winners, the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary--actually I probably read nearly all of hers, Bunnicula, James Herriot, Champion Dog: Prince Tom (which was a true story), Robin McKinley

[firecat88]

Hmm....it would honestly be easier for me to find books I *didn't* like. I was always the weird kid who actually enjoyed having to read books for book reports in school.

~Boxcar Children

~Babysitter's Club

~Song of the Lioness and Immortals Quartets (Tamora Pierce is still one of my favorite authors today)

~Chronicles of Narnia

~Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

~Ten Kids, No Pets

~Time Windows

~Egypt Game

~Dear America and My Name Is America series. I dunno if anyone remembers these, but they were two similar series of books written in diary/journal format, each one telling the story of a different kid (Dear America for girls and My Name Is America for boys) in a different period of time. There was also a Royal Diaries series that had diaries written from historical figures like Marie Antoinette, Anastasia Romanov, Queen Elisabeth I, etc.

~American Girl series (the way the books/franchise used to be. O.o)

[MoonCat]

Oh RK, Danny Dunn! I really enjoyed those books!

Then there were a few Tom Corbett books; a couple of Trixie Belden books, Donna Parker mysteries, books by Troy Nesbit (The Indian Mummy Mystery is the only one whose title I can remember). I read so many books I can't remember the names of. Didn't get to Tolkien until my twenties but LOTR is one of my favorites.

[chrislb]

the indian in the cupboard series. charlie and the chocolate factory. redwall series. the belgariad and the series right after. many many others. I read just about everything I could get my grubby paws on. except romance and western novels. never liked them

[AriGriffin]

The Vesper Holly series by Lloyd Alexander
The Boxcar Children
Lad, a Dog (and other books) by Albert Payson Terhune
Thoroughbred series by Joanna Campbell- Ashleigh's Diary was my favorite.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry- Enough so that I pestered Mom until she relented to let us stop by Chincoteague/Assateague when we came back from a trip to Washington D.C. in the summer of 2001. Petting one of Misty's great-great-can't-remember-how-many-grand fillies was the highlight of the trip. I was devistated when I learned the book was pure fiction and Misty (the real one) was bred and raised on a farm before being sold to the author to be used as inspiration.

[Sonoma]

Man, this thread brings back some memories of books I'd read, but have slipped my mind over the years. A lot of my favorites are ones that have been mentioned.

Little House series
The Black Stallion series
Black Beauty
Any Margurite Henry
Billy & Blaze series (get the impression I was horse-crazy....and still am)
Walt Morey's books - Kavik The Wolf Dog, Runaway Stallion, Year of the Black Pony
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Pippi Longstocking
The Great Brain series - loved these ones when I was a kid
Encyclopedia Brown series

...sneaks off to the library website to see if any of these are available...

[Cazzi]

My favourite as a pre-teen was The Weirdstone of Brasingamen by Alan Garner, an author who was fairly local to my location as a kid & the story was based fairly locally too
I also read the Katy books & little women et al, and am thinking of downloading them to my kindle for a re-visit.
Was potty on Enid Blyton's Famous Five & Secret Seven books for a while too.
In my teens I discovered scifi & horror stories, mostly adult authors as I found the teen books a bit too fast to read and the first books in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Dynasty series which she is still writing.. the volumes go up to 30something at the moment (I'm a bit behind)

I had my own library card at 1 year old , always been a bit of a bookworm & am so glad I got my Kindle, with having wonky hands, I wasn't reading as much as I would have liked as it was painful at times holding them

[Mytical]

Gah, where do I start, and more importantly can I remember them all? I was an avid reader. By 9th grade I was reading 2-3 books a day at LUNCH. Not counting how many during free periods, after school, etc.

A LOT of chose your own adventure books. Those were awesome.
Hobbit
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Landover Books
Out of Phase (and all the books in that series)
Stephen King (Read IT (uncut) in 4 hours)
Dragon Lance (I lost track of how many I read of those...)
Wheel of Time series

Wow..there is no way I can remember them all...

[Mikkel]

I read anything I could get my hands on from the age five.
Highlights are:
Dr. Doolittle
Robin Hood
King Solomon's Mines
Tarzan series
Little House series
Kalle Blomkvist series (Bill Bergson), I have two still, in Swedish!
Pippi Longstocking
Arthur C Clarke's Dolphin Island and Islands in the sky
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Oh, and Sherlock Holmes

[Dreamstalker]

Choose Your Own Adventure (I recently saw a couple reprints)
Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest (similar)
Indian in the Cupboard (I still have a little plastic Indian that someone gave me with the first book)
Wayside School
Encyclopedia Brown
A Wrinkle In Time and sequels
Julie of the Wolves (hmmm, I wonder why?)
Dragonwings
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Calvin & Hobbes

...and many more that I can't think of right now.

[Frantic Freddie]

I read a lot of books as a kid,I was a precocious reader,read stuff that was way beyond my age group,here's some I remember:

Red Planet & Farmer in the Sky,2 of Robert Heinlein's juveniles (I have all his books now).
All of Poe's 'Tales of Mystery & Imagination' by the time I was 9.
A history of Lord Admiral Nelson & the Battle of Trafalgar when I was 8 (the Admiral remains a hero to me today)
The Terry & the Pirates books (who remembers those?)
The Red Ryder books.
Mark Twain:Huckleberry Finn,Tom Sawyer,Puddin'head Wilson (again,I have all his works now)

That's all I can remember off the top of my head,but there were many,many more,my mom encouraged me to read & we had lots of books.

[Sheldonrs]

"Follow My Leader"

"She Wanted To Read"

"A Wrinkle In Time"

[Antisocial_Worker]

My local library had to limit me to 30 books at a time. My mom and I would come in toting old Pepsi crates to carry them all out.

Oh, let's see...

Garfield collections
Peanuts collections
Nancy Drew series(perhaps this was a portent that I would grow up to be gay)
Gone-Away Lake

I, naturally, went through a phase where I loved ghost stories. The plot was always the same -- family either moved somewhere or went somewhere for the summer and encountered a ghost. Child heroics, peril, happy ending. I only remember a couple of titles:

Christina's Ghost
Ghost Cat

[BlaqueKatt]

after reading through some of these I also remember the "Anastasia books" by lois lowery, and of course beverly cleary's Ramona books, and the mouse on the motorcycle.

and the bunnicula series by james howe-just checked that on amazon, and wow there are more books....

[AdminAssistant]

Oh, BK reminded me - Number the Stars. I loved that book!