favorite books you read/remember from childhood

[firecat88]

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

Oh gosh, I loved that one too. And The Giver.

[Thuringwethyl]

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.

My...my childhood! I never was a horse book person (my sister was) but I always thought that was real. Yes, I'm an adult.

[Thuringwethyl]

I'm doing this off the top of my head so I don't remember all the authors. Please don't kill me

The Boxcar Children
Pippi Longstocking
Treasure Island
The Jungle Book
White Fang and The Call of the Wild
The Redwall Series
Song of the Lioness and The Immortals
Darkangel trilogy
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Mostly anything by Mark Twain (didn't get all the social commentary until later, of course)
The Secret Garden
Heidi
Hans Christian Andersen (my Dad used to read this to us)
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bunnicula
Anything by Roald Dahl

I'm sure there's others that I've forgotten about. I wasn't allowed to watch regular TV as a kid so all I did was read. I would find all the parenting books my parents got, memorize them, and tell my parents where they were going wrong.

[jedimaster91]

~Egypt Game

I can't believe I forgot about Egypt Game. Awesome book, even if it was waaaaaay below my reading level when I picked it up (I read Little Women when I was in either first or second grade and I regularly read teen and adult novels by 5th grade).

~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.

I have a couple of those still. They were always good reads. The ones I distinctly remember were Anastasia and there was one on the Titanic.

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

I loved that book. That one and Daniel's Story.

[crazyofficeclerk]

Haunted Island by Joan Lowry Nixon- If I look, I probably could find my dog eared copy around here.

The Great Brain Series- Nothing can beat the unveiling of the water closet on main street

A lot of true ghost stories and stuff about wild weather

Nancy Drew

Boxcar Children

Sweet Valley High

Babysitters Club

I know there more.... many, many more

[MoonCat]

Anybody else getting a weird feeling seeing the names of books that weren't even written when they were a child, being listed as a favorite childhood book?

I feel ooooold.

[Eisa]

Basically everything in this thread equals favorite books.

Also, is it strange for The Grapes of Wrath to have been my favorite book in 4th grade?

[Racket_Man]

let's see

a few of the Boxcar Children
most of the Happy Hollisters
some Hardy Boys
Issac Asimov's Foundation series (beginnging with I,Robot) and continuing with R. Daniel Oliver throught the Foundation series (who formulates the Zeroth law of robotics)
the Rama series byt Auther C Clarke
the Ringworld series by Larry Niven
the Gateway series by Fredrick Pohl
the Dune series but Frank Herbert (read most of the prequel stuff written by his son later)

can you tell I am a SciFi reader???

[dalesys]

Anything with words in it.

I just love dirty paper, such as Isaac Asimov was accused of producing.

[Frantic Freddie]

let's see

Issac Asimov's Foundation series (beginnging with I,Robot) and continuing with R. Daniel Oliver throught the Foundation series (who formulates the Zeroth law of robotics)
can you tell I am a SciFi reader???

You might want to re-read those,'I,Robot' wasn't part of the Foundation series,nor were 'The Caves of Steel' or 'The Naked Sun',the books that introduced R. Daneel Olivaw.
And it's "The Three Laws of Robotics"

[Mikkel]

You might want to re-read those,'I,Robot' wasn't part of the Foundation series,nor were 'The Caves of Steel' or 'The Naked Sun',the books that introduced R. Daneel Olivaw.
And it's "The Three Laws of Robotics"

Try reading the later Foundation books. Asimov did incorporate Olivaw and the robots into his foundation universe.
And the zeroeth law is: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

[blas]

Tom and Huck
Anne of Green Gables
Ramona books

[Cat]

Ramona books

I LOVED the Ramona books!!

[blas]

What kid didn't?

Oh, I also loved the Alice books. I can't remember who wrote those, but I felt a strong connection to Alice.

[Cat]

There was another series I enjoyed.....about kids in elementary school.....all I remember this one girl has a toy unicorn named Uni.


And yes, another "Little House" fan.

Oh yea, there was a series about a girl named Anastasia that I though was a rather good.

And a book where this family stopped cleaning, and let nature take over their home....LOVED that one.