Lost childhood favorites

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Billjr13

I have to add The Three Investigators books and The Hobbit and of course The Wind in the Willows

Ohhhh... The Three Investigators... I had forgotten those.

Those are the ones with three young boys and one of them winds the use of a gold coloured RollsRoyce, and isn't alfred Hitchcock tied in there somwhere?

I wonder if they would be as good today as back then? Probably not

[Billjr13]

Yeah the the books were Alfred Hitchcock presents The Three Investigators... It was Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob ?... They were like a more modern Hardy Boys/Scooby Doo type story like the mystery of the talking mummy and what not; and the bad guys would have gotten away with it if it werent for those pesky boys.

[Latinandgreek]

I, too, loved John Bellairs' books. My mum just sent me some our old copies of the books - I think they belonged to my brother, though. I also LOVED "The Babysitter's Club" books (I still have about 60 of them), "That Scatterbrain Booky" (and the rest of the Booky series), Beverly Cleary's books (I also vaguely remember watching some sort of Ramona series on tv), the Chronicles of Narnia, Nancy Drew, and Christopher Pike horror novels. This is a great thread, it's bringing back a lot of memories! I'm sure there are more things that I read as a child, I'll have to think a bit...

[Solitaire1]

On the subject of the Robotech books, there are a total of 21 books in the series. The first 12 books retell the entire anime series. The next five books (collectively called "The Sentinels") tell the story of what occured between books six and seven (not recounted in the anime series). Book eighteen finishes the series, and the next three books fill in gaps not covered by the previous books.

On the subject of lost childhood favorites, there are two I can mention:

- "Welcome To Mars" by James Blish. I'd previously read the Star Trek novelizations by James Blish (covering "Star Trek - The Original Series") and enjoyed them. With "Welcome To Mars," Blish tells an excellent story about a young inventor who invents a way to travel to Mars. It should still be available, and it is worth reading.

- "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold. One of the best time travel stories I've ever read.

[rock]

Robotech were books!

I did not know that.

Anyways my childhood favorites were GOOSEBUMPS! (I'm 25)

I still have all the ones I had. I had them all up to a certain point. I even had the create your own story books.

I was in the bookstore the other day, and I saw he is writing books for older kids now. I will have to check it out.

I also remember reading The Giver often, Number the Stars, A Yankee in King Arthur's court, well a lot of Arthurian stories. A lot of Greek Mythology ( I took the same book out of the school library for like 4 straight years). But Goosebumps was my series, and probably why I am so in love with horror stuff today.

I remember getting Scholastic at school and going to my Mom going new goosebumps got to get it, and she did. I should thank her though, because reading so much as a kid probably help me get all those advanced test scores lol.

[Solitaire1]

rock wrote as part of a post:

Originally Posted by rock

Robotech were books!

I did not know that.

As mentioned before, the books basically retell and enhance the anime series. The anime series is a fusion of three unrelated series that were combined into three different Robotech sagas. This was done to provide enough episodes for syndication.

For me, the books read much smoother than the anime, and provide greater depth than the anime. For example, in the first book we see what happened when the giant ship (that eventually became the SDF-1) crashed on Earth, a part only briefly mentioned in the anime.

I'd seen a little Robotech on television, but I didn't become a fan until I read first of the books. Soon, I'd read the entire series.