Favorite book from childhood? Mine was Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Favorite book from childhood? Mine was Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
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James and the Giant Peach was my favorite.
You mean James and the Giant Peach. I loved that and Matilda also.
Nancy Drew Mysteries
When I first started reading
The secret garden
Little Women, Trixie Belden mysteries, Nancy Drew
Winnie the Pooh, Black Beauty.
I was a bookworm even then though so … that is only 2 out of the 1000’s of books I have read
“The Hobbit” in 6th grade. I picked up reading fairly quickly.
The Phantom Tollbooth. Still re-read it every few years.
Choose your own adventure books!
The Secret Garden and Little Women.
Ohhhh I read sooo many books growing up. But my favorite was and still is The Farthest Away Mountain by Lynn Reid Banks. She also wrote The Indian in The Cupboard.
Charlotte’s Web turned me into an avid reader beginning in 1st grade.
Anne of Green Gables and Little Women
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Charlotte’s Web
Stuart Little and Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie series. The Long Winter broke in half, I read it so many times.
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.
I scared the crap out of my little sister with this one (she was only five).
Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, the Little House books, Secret Garden and Little Princess, and Nancy Drew.
Jane Eyre
Anything by Judy Blume!
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Judy Blume.
Charlotte’s Web
The Black Stallion
The oldest I recall loving was Bartholomew and the Oobleck and, of course, Bartholomew and the 500 Hats.
Are you there God? It’s me Margaret ❤️ Judy Blume
Ferdinand
“The Night Before Christmas” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends.”
A Wrinkle in Time
Definitely “The Boxcar Children.” Any book from the series I called a favorite, and still do.
Loved that series also!
The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
Bridge to Terabithia, the Anne of Green Gables series, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Tuck Everlasting, The Lion the With and the Wardrobe, Nancy Drew books… I read A LOT as a kid
Yes yes! Lots of my favorites on this list also!
Me too. It was my saving.
The Little Princess by Francis Hodgeson Burnett and all the Dr
Seuss books- esp. Horton Hatches the egg.
The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe.
The Malory Towers Series by Enid Blython
Nancy Drew was a big favorite of mine. I think I read every book in the series!
Heidi, The Little Princess and Nancy Drew! I still have my Nancy books.
Secret Garden……
From my 9 year old granddaughter-Percy Jackson series.
Those books are fantastic.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins!!
Walter Farley Black Stallion books and Little House on the Prairie series
Too many! Almost everything that everyone else has listed, haha. I’d add The Light Princess and The Princess and the Goblins by George MacDonald.
I loved The Princess and the Goblin! 😀
The Princess was the first book I found on my own at the library (I grew up in a family of readers so many books were introduced to me). I reread The Light Princess not too long ago and still loved it, even as an adult. I need to reread Princess!
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe
The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Jill pony books by Ruby Ferguson.
Hiedi
The Velveteen Rabbit, The Little Red Hen.
By the time I was 9, I had read all the Nancy Drew, Bobsey Twins and Hardy Boys books. My favorites books, though, were centered around horses — Black Beauty and Misty of Chincoteague (sp?).
oh yes, I had so many Marguerite Henry books. Loved them!
@Jennifer Yes, King of the Wind and Black Gold were my favorites!
This is hard to answer, too may favs. I loved the bobbsey twins and read every book in the series. I loved Anne of green gables and that entire series. But my favorite was probably the trolley car family, about a family that decides to live in the trolley car that their dad drove when it gets retired for the bus lines.
“Margaret” by Janet Sebring Lowry; “An Old Fashioned Girl” by Lousia May Alcott; “Little Women”; “A Little Princess” and “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. All things Nancy Drew, “Black Beauty”; “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”.
Every Judy Blume book. I read them until they fell apart.
Where the Red Fern Grows and The Secret Garden
Nancy Drew, Little House…
Heidi
The Hardy Boys, Harriett the Spy, Treasure island and Swiss Family Robinson, Trixie Beldon,
Me too
Black Beauty!
The Phantom Tollbooth
Nancy Drew, the Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, my brother’s Tom Swift and Hardy Boys, The Swiss Family Robinson, Little Women, and then my first “grown up” book — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 58 or so years later it remains my all-time favorite, one I’ve read many times since.
I LOVED Trixie Belden!!
Choose your own adventure & Goosebumps
The Black Stallion.
Holes
Nancy Drew books.
Everything by Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden
Probably Anne of Green Gables series. We even went on a vacation to PEI once and went to the house.
Mio, My Son by Astrid Lundgren. Its like Harry Potter in Fairytale land. I bet JK Rowlings read it too! Cloak of invisiblity, evil villian, mean foster parents, need I say more?
When I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I had to go back and re-read her Pippi Longstocking series. ?
the secret garden
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle.
Charlottes Web
Also Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
If I had to pick only one favorite, it’s Peggy Parish’s “Key to the Treasure”. It was one of the first chapter books I could read and understand on my own. I was 6 or 7.
Black Beauty
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Stuart Little
Caddie Woodlawn, The Secret Garden, Pippi Longstocking, Half Magic, Little Witch, The Black Stallion
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
As a very young child my favorite book was “Quick as a Cricket.” It’s one of my favorites to read to my child.
Little Women. Wanted to be Jo then, now I wish I was more like Marmee.
Little Women.
A Wrinkle in Time and the Little House series
Little Women
The Hardy Boys series. Between my cohorts Jeff & Bruce & I we bought and read and traded the entire series at the time (around 45) because back in the ‘60s those kid series were banned in libraries.
Bridge to Terabithia.
The Secret Garden
Andy Buckram’s “Tin Men”.
Laura Ingalls Wilder “Little House” series!
Preschool -Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Elementary-anything Ramona Quimby then later Judy Bloom
Junior High and Forever After- To Kill a Mockingbird
Not a book, but rather two stories. By fourth grade, my favorites were The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Hop Frog, both by Poe.
“Mrs. Mike” by Nancy Freedman
I loved the Raggedy Ann books, Mary Poppins, Charlotte’s Web, and Farmer McBroom books.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton, The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks, the Nancy Drew books, and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I was obsessed with Isaac Asimov’s robot stories. Oh, and everything by Roald Dahl, Dr. Suess, Kate DiCamillo, Beverly Cleary, and E.B. White! I also read and reread the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
Loved the Redwall series!
I loved Indian in the Cupboard! Castle in the Attic was a similar one I loved!
@Ashley I have to add it to my TBR!
@Elizabeth It was THE BEST!
Loved The Borrowers. Can’t tell you how many little things I left out under my bed for them…lol…
@Lynne Same here! My belief in borrowers was integral to my childhood development.
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie. I couldn’t watch the famous TV series because it was terrible compared to those books!
The wizard of Oz
Stuart Little when quite young. Nancy Drew mysteries in elementary school. The Secret Garden.
I would spend whole Saturdays in my room finishing an entire R.L. Stine. Plus, Little Women, Black Beauty, the SuperFudge series, American Girl, Girl Talk, Babysitters Club, Dr. Seuss and pretty much every Golden Book ever written.
How could I forget Dr. Suess?! ❤
I loved the book Heidi and all The Nancy Drew books.
Charlotte’s web , little princess, the Secret Garden, Little Women, Nancy Drew series
I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, and All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor.
Little Women
Emily of New Moon series, and everything else written by L.M. Montgomery. There were paperbacks released of her short stories in collections.
I’m an Anne fan, but I didn’t get to know her until my late teens.
Charlotte’s Web & anything Nancy Drew; I loved mysteries from an early age! ?
Nancy drew series.
Anne of Green Gables and Island of the Blue Dolphins
I love Island of the Blue Dolphins growing up. 🙂
Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden
A Wrinkle in Time.
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh I forgot the Chronicles of Narnia!
@Heidi
The Betsy, Tacy, and Tib series by Maud Hart Lovelace. These books deserve a comeback in popularity.
Secret Garden
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Charlotte’s Web, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
All of Louisa Mae (May?) Alcott
The Pokey Little Puppy
Alice in Wonderland and The Secret Garden
Nancy Drew books
A Wrinkle in Time
The Westing Game and anything by E. L. Konigsburg
@Jennifer – I had friends that did that too!
There are so many! I was a major bookworm as a child. I love the Beezus and Ramona books, Nancy Drew, Charlotte’s Web, The Oz books, Dr. Seuss.
Anne of Green Gables
all of the above plus Donna Parker and Cherry Ames
Diary of Anne Frank. I was her age when I first read it.
Charlotte’s Web
Secret Garden, Nancy Drew, the Betsy series, Lois Lenski books, and Little House series
Loved all of these!
🙂
The. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Heidi, the Wizard of Oz, Wind in the Willows, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Little House series.
Wind in the Willow was the first book I remember but The Little House on the Prairie books were the first books that made me love reading.
All the Beverly Cleary books!
Little Women
Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children
Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Black Beauty, Five Little Peppers, Nancy Drew, Little House Books
The Bobbsey Twins, The Boxcar Children, The Honey Bunch series, Nancy Drew.
Ditto
The Neverending Story
Favorite early childhood book is The Little Engine That Could. Favorites that I read to my sons are Stuart Little and The Dancing Bear, as well as the Narnia series.
The Little House series
Charlotte’s Web
When really young loved “Honey Bunch”. Bobbsey Twins
As a little girl: How Fletcher was Hatched by Wende & Harry Devlin, The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, and Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats. As a child: The Little House on the Prairie books, Trixie Belden books, and Lois Lenski books. There are truly many more, but these are the ones that came to mind first. There was also an abridged version of Anne of Green Gables that we had in our country school. It was an extra large book and had color pictures. The cover has Anne’s head/face on the cover. It took me a long time, but I found a copy of that book. I read it too many times to count when I was in school.
Wind in the Willows is one of my favs too! I read a lot of the Redwall series, by Brian Jacques, and also several of Roald Dahl’s books
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry. I read these two books over and over again.
Diary of Anne Frank, Anne of Green Gables, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Native Son, Black Like Me, the Bible and whatever my older siblings were reading.
Little House on the Prairie.
Hands down Anne of Green Gables! All of them!
Hmm…Harriet the Spy and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler-so many from which to choose!
A Little Princess
Ramona the Pest
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
My Side of the Mountain and Charlotte’s Web
A Wrinkle in Time, and I will not be seeing the movie. Nothing can live up to my own imaginings.
Wrinkle in Time
James and the Giant Peach
The Pink Maple House
The Anne of Green Gables series followed by a serious obsession with Gone With the Wind. I literally have read both over 100 times.
The Secret Garden and The little Prince
The Wizard of Oz.
Winnie the Pooh books
How funny that ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ was 1st published when I was 8 yrs old and yet I had never heard of it until the film version was released this year. Did it somehow bypass Racine, Wisconsin??? ?
East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Matilda and The Babysitters Club
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, The Little Princess, The Secret Garden, and A Wrinkle in Time were some of my favorites.
The Lord of the Rings. (Yes, I was a strange child.)
*raises hand* Lord of the Rings was the only thing I asked for for my 12th birthday. So I’m right there with ya! 🙂
@Kim *high-fives* I was 7 or 8. I encountered the Rankin-Bass ROTK first, then sought out the boxed sets.
Nancy Drew
The Boxcar Children
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Stuart Little
She was Nice to Mice written by Ally Sheedy. Yes that Ally Sheedy.
I was reading really weird stuff when I was a kid. The Circle of Light Series by Niel Hancock was my favorite series and I read them over and over again obsessively.
I also loved the Freddy The Pig series.
Winnie the Pooh
Charlotte’s Web. That’s the book that made me realize that I was going to love reading for the rest of my life. ♥️♥️??♥️♥️
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Trixie Belden and the Gatehouse Mystery
Nancy Drew
The Phantom Tollbooth
Sweet Valley High Series (the original) in 6th grade is how I found my love for reading!
Weeellll…The Hobbit lead me to beg for the Lord of the Rings for my 12th birthday, and LOTR is still my absolute favorite. But it’s not really a young adult or kids book. So The Hobbit maybe? I also loved a book called Birth of the Firebringer (unicorns…pitter pat went my preteen heart) and one called A Murder For Her Majesty.
Cherry Ames and Nancy Drew.
The Wizard of Oz, my parents read it to me at bedtime
In the 4th grade I read Mandy by Julie (Andrews) Edwards and that book started my lifelong love of reading.
A friend mentioned that she loved this book too but for the record, the author is Edwards( you probably had a brain fart)?
@Frances yes of course you’re right! I knew that! I have to change it now! 😀
I loved that one too. I don’t hear of many people who have read it.
My daughter loved “The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles” by Julie Andrews and the “Dinotopia” series.
I love that book, too. My favorite from childhood is Alice in Wonderland.
Little House on the Prairie was the start to my love of reading.
Chronicles of Narnia
Witch of Blackbird Pond- it had just come out….when I think about it that must have started my love of historical fiction
I loved that book!
I also loved that book!
WOW! There are some really great titles listed!
Ginny Gordon and the Lending Library
All of The Black Stallion books.
I loved it when my parents read the Wizard of OZ to me❤️
A Little Princess and The Secret Garden.
The Secret Garden … and Nancy Drew
Uncle Wiggley read to me or Winnie the Pooh. Reading to myself, The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew.
I have a few, ..as I went from six to 12 years old…Charlotte’s Web, Watership Down, Mixed up files of Mrs. BEF., A Wrinkle in Time, Boxcar Children, Black Beauty, Misty of Chinntoquage, Nancy Drew books, and more. I love seeing the comments here!
My granddaughters LOVE the Magic Tree house series, and I love listening to them read, can’t wait to see what happens next.
Jealous, Jaylen never wanted to be read to and still hates reading to this day!
@Sharon Alder used to be a big reader, Carly said he read these books when he was younger. He always was reading something.
The Once and Future King was my favorite as a teen. I also loved the Sherlock Holmes stories. Before that, I liked Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, preceeded by Amelia Bedelia and Beverly Cleary books. The first book I really loved, though, was The Poky Little Puppy. My mom says I had it memorized before I could even read.
Oh, I loved The Poky Little Puppy! ??
Black Beauty
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Beginner reader, The Fire Cat by Esther Averill. Chapter books: Marguerite Henry horse books, Outlaw Red by Jim Kjelgaard, The Crossbreed by Allan Eckert, Yellow Eyes by Rutherford Montgomery, Lad of Sunny bank by Albert Paysone Terhune (all animal stories).
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingles Wilder
The White Stallion
A Wrinkle in Time.
Also “Where the Sidewalk Ends” Shel Silverstein
Charlotte’s Web
Where the Red Fern Grows
Huckleberry Finn
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams…loved all his books but this was my fave; also lovedTHE SILENT MEOW
The Silver Nutmeg by Palmer Brown.
The Black Stallion
Those are great ones! I forgot Black Beauty too. I was obsessed with horses!
Me too. Absolutely. All those girls in love with horses.
Corduroy; Ramona Quimby
The Phantom Tollbooth
Island of the blue dolphins
I Can’t Said the Ant and The Penguin that Hated the Cold
Misty of Chincoteague ?
I devoured these Childhood History books when I was in elementary school. There were whole shelves of them at the library!
I loved these books! I think I must have read every one I found in our little school library.
Yes! Loved these.
The first “chapter book” I rember reading was Amelia Erhart — loved these!
The Betsy-Tacy-Tib books by Maud Hart Lovelace
I own them all!
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe ?
“A Lantern in her Hand” by Bess Streeter Audrich
I absolutely adore her books, but especially that one!
“A Secret Garden”
Black Beauty
The Trumpeter of Krakow.
The Oz books, Charlotte’s Web, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
I loved the Dan Frontier books!
Harriet the Spy. ?
And all the Wizard of Oz books!
James and the giant peach
Little house books
Twice freed
Were the wild things are
Bible bed time stories
The Tail of Emily Windsnap series, the Magic Treehouse series, and the Harry Potter series.
“Little Women” and “The Secret Garden” as well as anything by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume.
The Wizard of Oz- and all the Oz books. By L. Frank Baum. So many happy memories! And now I love reading the Wicked Books by Gregory Maguire
My Side of the Mountain, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, and Harry Potter. 🙂
The Secret Garden and Heidi
American Girl Series 🙂
Charlotte’s Web.
The Shark Lady & M is for Muggie
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Charlotte’s Web
Mandy by Julie Andrews, read and reread.
I loved that one too! Don’t hear from many others that they have read it.
Where the Red Fern Grows – Read it until the binding was broke and the cover had fallen off
All of the Little House on the Prairie books. Read them all multiple times.
As a tween, I stumbled upon Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and “In the Forest of the Night,” and I fell in love with her characters and books. She was like a teen version of Anne Rice and got me into Anne Rice, actually (read Interview with the Vampire at 14). These are the books that stuck with me and I still have them. She also inspired me to write.
A Wrinkle in Time By Madeline L’Engle.
The Princess and the Goblin.
Black Beauty
Anne of Green Gables.
Heidi and every Nancy Drew Book and Beatrice Potter
Heidi, Little Women, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Little House on the Prairie
“Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH” by Robert C. O’Brien.
Little Women, Little Men, etc. ,Cherry Ames series
I was just talking about Wind in the Willows. Great NPR performance once. Mine is Tom Sawyer. I still remember the chills when Tom and Becky are in the caves.
Heidi
The Secret Garden
Anne of Green Gables, the Secret Garden
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM read by my 5th grade teacher everyday after recess.
Johnny Tremaine and the Liberty Tree.
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry. My Mom took me downtown Cleveland on the bus to meet the author and get a signed book. I remember it like it was yesterday!!
Me too! Was this in the ’50’s, and she showed a filmstrip of the horses and the islands? I grew up in Alliance about 60 miles SE of Cleveland. Man, I loved those books.
I loved all of those. Want to take my grand daughter to see the horses next summer.
@Karen, yes, it was the 50’s at Higbee’s or Halle’s. I still want to go see the horses!
So do I! It was at Higbee’s, I think, if that was the one where you could get an egg cream in the basement cafe afterward.
@Karen, one of the marvelous malts for me. Haha!
King of the Dollhouse by Patricia Clapp
Wrinkle In Time
Little House on the Prairie
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
I loved this book
Tuck Everlasting, the Chronicles of Narnia and Bunnicula ?
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 🙂
Charlotte’s Web
Where the Red Fern Grows. My third grade teacher read it to the class, and we all sobbed together. And then I read it alone many times. And sobbed alone.
My fourth grade teacher read it to us. I do love that book. I wore my copy out.
Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace love ?
Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, James And The Giant Peach, My Side Of The Mountain….many others!
Little Women and The Chronicles of Narnia were my most well read books growing up. I was just thinking about how different my adolescence would have been if Harry Potter had been available when I was growing up. Today’s kids have no idea how lucky they are!
Charlotte’s Web and The Trumpet of the Swan
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
I loved Shel Silverstein! And of course the Babysitters Club series
Maida’s Little Store by Inez Haynes Irwin. It was my Mom’s book!
Never heard of it! There goes another one on my “after The List” List!
It’s an old-timer but I think still available!
I loved Maida’s little
School. but my favorite was Little Women
I loved Heidi and the other books about her, Peter and the Alm Uncle, as did my mom so she read all of them to me and compared Heidi’s environment to hers growing up in the foothills of Mt. Adams and they raised goats, too. ?
I love Heidi also. I have my Mother’s copy. A few years ago I began. looking for different versions. I now have 10 or so different editions. I enjoy seeing how various illustrators choose to depict Heidi and the story.
@Fleta That’s great!
Here’s my book which was a birthday gift for my ninth birthday!
@Laurie I do not have this one. I like the picture.
Someone else got my Mom’s ancient book, but I have her copy of Pinocchio that’s falling apart!
@Fleta Keep looking! There must be a few of these around if mine has managed to survive…although I don’t think I let my sister’s read it, or they weren’t interested!
@Laurie My Mom’s is falling apart too
The paper is crumbly. I found another copy of the same edition that is not as fragile
@Fleta That was so lucky!
This is interesting – so many of us have copies of Heidi that belonged to our mothers . . . mine, too, is falling apart. But I love the illustrations. 1924 edition
@Jean Beautiful cover.
When pigs fly
Stuart Little (elementary)
The Outsiders (middle school)
Blackhearts at Battersea, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, A Wrinkle in Time, Star Girl (all elementary school reads)
I remember the Witch of Blackbird Pond!!
I love Wind in the Willows even as an adult but it disturbs me that the chapter Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sometimes deleted
I’m going to read this tonight, never did as a child but always on the shelf for-someday. Chapter sited is included 😉
@Jennifer lucky you. I have so many favorite parts..please smile for me when mole visits his old home at Christmas
Mole’s home at Christmas is one of THE BEST parts! I would gladly live in Mole End.
The Outsiders
Oh, I loved that book?
Loved biographies. Nellie Bly, Girl Reporter and Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale to name a couple.
Yes. Yes, yes to all of these.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Child’s Garden of Verses, A Wrinkle in Time, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Heidi, all of the Louisa May Alcott books, all of the Little House books.
Ramona
Heidi
Child’s Garden of Verses
Yes. We had this book as children and I read it many times. I had forgotten! Thanks for the reminder!
I thought about the swinging poem the other day when I saw from my window the little girl next door on her swing set. “Up in the air and over the wall ’til I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all over the countryside. (Then?) I look down on the garden (wall?), down on the roof so brown, Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down.”
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen!
Brians Winter too
Just Plain Maggie
“Hounds of the Morrigan” by Pat O’Shea, Watership Down, and the Chronicles of Narnia! And, and, and…
Watership Down… what an imagination Richard Adams had let’s all go out and silfay
Mrs. Nelson is Missing, White Fang and The Witches are some favorites!
White Fang?
@Laurie yes. I bawled!
Little House Books, Bobsey Twins, Charlotte’s Web, Mr Popper’s Penguins.
Omg Bobbsey Twins !
@Darby I recently went on a quest to get a whole set of them, which I was able to do. I read them all again, in order. I enjoyed them but I must say, I did not remember that they treat racial differences in a seriously inappropriate way! I’m pretty sure my mom never read them or she would never have allowed me to read them!!
@Beth yes Beth you are right about that. I have never been able to find a full set. Thankfully , time changes things for the better . Sometimes .
Wow! What a great prompt! Everyone is posting and you can just feel the loving energy spinning through it!
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Little House on the Prairie series, and the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary were always my favorite!! Then, as I got a little older, Judy Blume books were all I read and re-read!!
I loved the Ramona books. I always wanted to be her, but I’m more of a Beezus.
The Little House series. I also loved Anne of Green Gables?
The Little Old Man who Could not read.
Talking to Dragons by Patricia Wrede
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler
Winnie the Pooh
I want to spend this summer reading these again. Such wonderful memories.
Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis.
Pippi Longstocking
My first favorite book was in the 3rd grade I read the original Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I have read so many others, but some favorites include Night by Eli Weisel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Hiroshima, The Winthrop Woman, all of Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, especially his Alex Cross series, and so many more! Love books, love reading!
I loved horses so any book by Walter Farley.
My sister joined the Walter Farley fan club
A Wrinkle in Time
Heidi
Heidi
Charlotte’s Web
Loved loved Wind in the Willows but I have to say my favorite was Winnie the Pooh because my mother read it so brilliantly
The Westing Game, A Wrinkle in Time, A Girl of the Limberlost
Winnie-the-Pooh, and I still have it!
I was given a Winnie the Pooh book when I was born and still have it 60+ years later.
I still have mine, too !,
The Phantom Tollbooth
Another one I read as an adult and loved
The Girl of the Limberlost. I read it when I was 7 and fell in love. I think I’ve read it about twice a year since.
I just read it again. It was one of my mom’s favorites.
Little Women, Heidi
The Boxcar Children , Mrs Piggle Wiggle & also Encyclopedia Brown ?
There’s a movie coming out with The Boxcar Children
I ❤️❤️❤️the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books!!! And Encyclopedia Brown! OMG such memories!
Me 2 along w So many other books! I especially remember liking the Radish Cure, the Tattle-Tale Cure, the Slow Eater Tiny Bite Taker Cure, the Thought You Saiders Cure & the Fighter Quarrelers Cure! Synopsis all on Wikipedia ???
Dark Hour of Noon by Christine Szambelan-Strevinsky
The Phantom Tollbooth!
Yes
Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Mrs Piggle Wiggle, Bobbsey Twins. More then one ? Have loved reading my whole life!
Loved Nancy Drew! Read all those books!
The Secret Garden
The Moffat Family series
Oh, I LOVE that series!
I own all of the Moffats books. Are you aware of a couple of others she wrote: “The Alley” and “The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode”? They go together and I love them, too!
@Jean, Thank you for telling me. I didn’t know about them but I’m excited to read them! ?
Definitely fun! I love this community of readers!
The Yearling. Movie was so lovely too.
I remember the boy named Millwheel ?
Little Women
“Misty of Chincoteague” by Marguerite Henry (when I was very young) and “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Song of the South and I loved the Yearling too
The Phantom Tollbooth (plus Encyclopedia Brown and Trixie Belden)
I forgot about Trixie, and I loved her.
Trixie Belden ❤️
I LOVED Trixie I have the best memories reading those books
Heidi
That was one of my favorites.
Watership Down ?????
Yes! Forgot about this one.
Little Women
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Anne of Green Gables
Black Beauty
Any Nancy Drew Book
It’s a toss between “A Bridge to Terebithia” and “Tuck Everlasting” (though if I had to back up further into my childhood, I might choose “Anne of Green Gables”).
A little older, I loved Judy Blume’s books.
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe also Gone Away Lake
Island of the Blue Dolphins.
I couldn’t get enough of Walter Farley’s books about the black stallion & the island stallion. Also Love Hardy Boys series.
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Loved it!
As a child, I loved Charlotte’s Web, The Little House On the Prairie Series (especially Farmer Boy), A Wrinkle in Time, and the Nancy Drew Series. As a teen, I loved Anne of Green Gables, Ghosts I Have Been, Sweet Valley High Series, Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind, & Rebecca.
Sweet Valley High – I loved those books.
Wizard of Oz
The Indian in the Cupboard
YES! I cannot convince Emery to read this ?
Dick and Jane, Spot and Fluff and Sally
Puff, the little tabby kitten. I found 3 copies on eBay. Had to buy them! They are the reason why I love to read ❤️
that’s right, Puff it’s hell being 68, lol
Matilda and anything by Roald Dahl, Bill Bryson and Enid Blyton, and the Sweet Valley High series.
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, Chartotte’s Web, Wrinkle in Time (Or anything by L’Engle), Anne of Green Gables, Eight Cousins, Winnie the Pooh, Secret Garden, Railway Children, Heidi, 5 Little Peppers, The Borrowers, Narnia, Pippi Longstocking, The Colored Fairy Tale books, Gone-Away Lake—there were just SOOOO many. I can’t quite part with them, yet. Once in a while I have a children’s book splurge. and read a bunch again. They never disappoint.
I am reading through the Nancy Drew series again from the beginning. So much fun. They are hard to find so have to get some through Thrift Books.
The Mixed Up Files…is one of my favorite books! Reading it has made me want to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art someday!
From different times in childhood – Charlotte’s Web, Little House on the Prairie series, Jane Eyre, all the Dr. Seuss books, All Things Bright and Beautiful series, Misty of Chincoteague series or anything by Marguerite Henry.. So many!! Thanks for making me remember! Would like to read them again!!
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Swiss Family Robinson. Also, Dr. Doolittle, who could talk to animals.
“The Good Master” and “Rufus M” are tied.
As a teen, “To Kill a Mocking Bird” had the greatest impact.
“Dreams of Victory,” forgot the author.
Little Women
This Sunday on Masterpiece Theater At 8!
I didn’t read as a child……………….
So hard to choose one favorite. Partial list in no particular order: Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charlotte’s Web, Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, The Wizard of Oz, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Little Women
Loved Judy Blume!
I was a big Blume fan too.
I forgot Mrs Piggle Wiggle!!
Little Women
A Wrinkle in time.
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
I loved ALL Nancy Drew books. Guess it explains why I still enjoy mysteries best.