favorite books you read/remember from childhood

[Peppergirl]

Little House Series
Little Women
Nancy Drew Mysteries
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
VC Andrews Dollanganger series books
The Ramona Books
All of the Judy Blume books *yes, all. I was a child of the 70s and early 80s.
Silas Marner
Pride and Prejudice



Hmmm, more later maybe.

[Elspeth]

I am a bookworm. Some of these are childhood and probably into jr high and what not

Little House series
the Anne of Green Gables series
Canterbury Tales (jr high/high school)
Nancy Drew
Babysitter Club
Jane Erye
Diary of Anne Frank
Judy Blume books
Little Women
Choose your own adventure

I know there are a lot more then that but I can't remember them

[blas]

Ah yes, the Babysitters Club!

[shankyknitter]

Grim's Fairy Tales (Originals none of this namby pamby Disney stuff)
The Peter Rabbit series
Pride and Prejudice
Mother Goose
Beowulf. (yes my grandma read it to me as a kid, explains a lot doesn't it?)
Wuthering Heights
And any 'Little Golden Book' I could get my grubby paws on.

[Cat]

Oh, the Babysitters Club! LOve it. Though I found it odd they never seemed to age.....they'd have summer vacations, then go back to the same grade....so odd. Though I loved that they were from CT

[Micer]

-de-lurk-

Hm.. also guilty on the bookworm charge. I used to get in trouble during English class because the class would be reading one story, and I would have already zipped through it and started reading something else further in the book.

But as a kid I loved the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
Catwings (I still have that book and plan to read it to my own children)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School books
Mail-Order Wings
Where The Wild Things Are
Any of the Oz books, though my favorite was and still is The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Also, I loved reading Readers Digest as a kid, my grandmother had tons of them. Tons upon tons. As well as the collection books of Bloom County/Opus. <3

[ADoyle90815]

The Little House series
Anne of Green Gables
The Babysitter's Club
The Ramona books
Nancy Drew
Chronicles of Narnia series
Treasure Island
Little Women
Judy Blume books
1984
The Oz books

My mom was an English teacher so she strongly encouraged my brother and I to read. Also, some of my uncles owned a bookstore briefly when I was a child, and when that went out of business, I got a ton of books. This was when the chain bookstores became popular, so it was bad timing to try to run an independent store.

[Barefootgirl]

I was just thinking about the Ramona books the other day, and reminding myself to look for them in the library, because my daughter is 8, and I think she'd like them!

Its funny how many of us in this thread have felt compelled to add that we were "a bit weird" for liking to read a lot as kids. We were not weird, it was all our contemporaries that *didn't* read! Now *that* is weird.

My favourites were:

Black Beauty
Ruby Ferguson's "Jill" books (pony stories)
Everything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters (posh pony stories)
The Biggles books
The Famous Five books
The Magic Faraway Tree books
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Harry The Dirty Dog
Lester and The Unusual Pet
Ameliaranne And the Green Umbrella
Everything Roald Dahl ever wrote
Willard Price's "Animal Adventure" stories, which was a series about two boys who travelled round the world collecting animals for zoos.
My Family & Other Animals, and all Gerald Durrell's other stuff. I was very young when I first read My Family, and didnt get all the more adult jokes, but I loved the parts about animals, and envied young Gerry's carefree life on Corfu.

And erm,

The Dam Busters. Not the normal choice of reading for an 8 year old girl, perhaps, but I liked aeroplanes, and I had a distant relative who flew with the Dam Busters, so felt a special connection to the story.

[Becks]

Let's see...in no particular order:

Little House series
Anne of Green Gables series
early books in The Cat Who... series
an edited version of Morning Glory
The Babysitters Club series
Sweet Valley High series
Sweet Valley Twin series
Judy Blume books
Beverly Cleary books
Where the Red Fern Grows
Gone With the Wind


...and so many others, it's not funny.

[Mishi]

Went to BookFest yesterday and found a copy of 'There's a monster at the end of this book.' for Jazzy and Bubbles, in perfect condition for 50 cents. Copyrighted in 1971! They love it, of course.

[AriGriffin]

I loved the early-to-mid books in The Cat Who series also, but that last one... ... was so bad. I mean really, really horrible.
I forgot about The Magic Schoolbus series, Curious George, Madeline, Heidi, and Pollyanna.

[LibraryLady]

When I was a Tween, I remember finding and devouring the Rosemary Sutcliff books.

I'm American and she was British but I loved her historical novels about young people. My absolute favorite was 'Dawn Wind'. It was about a brother and sister who had to flee Londinium when the Romans withdrew. It was a harrowing journey to an uncle who lived in Aquis Sulus, what now would be called Bath.

There was another one about a teen aged physician's assistant serving with a Roman Legion on Hadrian's wall and another book about a young Saxon invader.

They were all so different from Cherry Ames or Nancy Drew that I loved them. Those books also got me interested in the history of Ancient Britain. That's an interest that has continued to this day and I'm now 63 years old.

[Kara]

Well, before age 10 I liked:

Charlotte's Web
Encyclopedia Brown
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobbit
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Babysitter's Club
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (OMG I saw this book a couple of years ago and the pictures are STILL super-creepy)
Stories from Greek Mythology

[Eireann]

Tom's Midnight Garden. What a wonderful story!

I also liked the Encyclopedia Brown books.

[jedimaster91]

Went to BookFest yesterday and found a copy of 'There's a monster at the end of this book.' for Jazzy and Bubbles, in perfect condition for 50 cents. Copyrighted in 1971! They love it, of course.

EEEEEE!!! Lucky!! I love that book!!

Li'l Sis was really into the bug books (Alphabet Bugs) and Rosie Sips Spiders. Did anyone else ever read Guess Who Moved in Nextdoor to Us?