Favorite Childhood Book

[Superlucky]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

Encyclopedia Brown, Danny Dunn, and all the Choose Your Own Adventure books (you could still do those in ebook form... use footnotes for direct linking to pages...)

I had forgotten about Choose Your Own Adventure books! I used to love those when I was a kid.

[emellaich]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

tsk tsk........such young people on this forum.

Does no one else remember "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew", or "The Bobbsey Twins" adventures?

"Little Women", of course.

I read the Bobbsey Twins, after I ran out of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. The interesting thing about reading when I was growing up was the selection.

I lived in a small town that was thirty miles from the metropolis (population: 17,000 -- the metropolis that is, my town was only 586). Our library was in two rooms. I don't know if I would have read the Bobbsey Twins or not today given the much wider selection on the net. I'm sure it was much too kiddish for someone as mature as I was . However, back then, if you were hooked on reading you read what you could get, and I quite enjoyed them.

MLH

[pholy]

"The Bear that Wasn't" - about a bear who goes into a cave to hibernate and wakes up in a factory. The foreman say "You're not a bear. You're a funny old man who wears a fur coat and needs a shave!" Great illustrations. I found it a few years ago reprinted by Dover. It's around here somewhere.

And all of Jim Kjelgaard's books of dog stories. Maybe that's why I have a cat now...

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by pholy

"The Bear that Wasn't" - about a bear who goes into a cave to hibernate and wakes up in a factory. The foreman say "You're not a bear. You're a funny old man who wears a fur coat and needs a shave!" Great illustrations. I found it a few years ago reprinted by Dover. It's around here somewhere.
...

You know, I think I'd buy that book, now. At the very least, when I'd done with it, I could give it to my nephew.

Cheers,
Marc

[corroonb]

Brendon Chase - BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)

The Black Riders, The Emerald Crown, The Stormy Petrel - Violet Needham

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Watership Down - Richard Adams

[dfigueroa]

The Velveteen Rabbit
Winnie the Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Now We Are Six
When We Were Very Young

[redneck_momma]

alice in wonderland
tom sawyer
boxcar children mysteries
ellen tibbit
and i loved roald dhal

[mrmember]

My favorite childhood book was "Just David" by Eleanore Porter. I read it at age 10 and it crosses my mind every now and then even after decades and decades have past. An unbelievably wonderful memory.

[montsnmags]

Recently, Mother brought me from home the few books that were mine from my childhood.

They're mostly a bit worse for wear, and as a childless 40yo I don't have much future-use for them (though a nephew may get the better ones). In a move that might be considered horrendous by some, I intend to find in a few of the books some interesting pictures, cut the pages out, and nicely and individually frame them. I've been given the option to turn the downstairs room into a study/library/tiny photo studio/etc. and looking for pictures to help decorate, and childhood reading images in a library seem right to me.

(Note, none of the books are special, first edition classics or anything - they're books that were sold in bulk at Big W)

Oddly, my Rusty, the Nimble Numbat wasn't with them. I wonder if Mother has accidentally given it to one of my other siblings...?

Cheers,
Marc

[JuniperPearl]

The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
Superfudge & Fudge-A-Mania - Judy Blume
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Babysitter's Club - Ann M. Martin
Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Harry Potter (the obsession lasted well into the teen years - I grew up with Harry.)

I miss most of these books... off to see if The Giver is available in ebook form.

[Roger Parkinson]

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Couldn't get enough of it. I found the Magician's nephew soon after than then, while I heard of others I couldn't get near a copy (this was sometime before Noah's Flood, you understand, when there was no internet, no Amazon, one small town bookshop and a 'tries very hard' local library). In my teens I managed to get the rest of them except Horse and his Boy, but got that eventually.

I prefer living today than back then.

[Iphinome]

Dear Mr. Henshaw

[ladyashk]

Chalet School series, Malory Towers series, Anne of Green Gables, Ballet Shoes were my childhood favourites.

[Solitaire1]

Some of my favorites (its been a while since I read them, so I had to get the author's name from Wikipedia):

- "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
- "Homer Price" and "Centerburg Tales" by Robert McCloskey
- The "Henry Reed" series by Keith Robertson

[bobavey]

My favorite childhood book was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.