Favourite childrens book, perhaps the one that started your reading journey
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Question for today. Favourite childrens
book, perhaps the one that started your reading journey
Mary Poppins by P L Travers & Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton.
I loved the adventure series by Enid Blyton. The valley of adventure was my favourite
Not really children’s book… But The Babysitter’s Club was the first series I loved and collected.
When I was little, I loved anything by Richard scarry
Choose your own adventure books!
Enid Blyton the magic faraway tree.
I loved anything by Ronald Dahl and Shel Silverstein
Little House on the Prairie, my gateway to all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was a kid. I also loved The Blue Castle, which has been a fav from childhood to adulthood.
The ONLY series I begged my mom to purchase from those scholastic order pages!
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Boxcar Children!
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love books, but I did especially love horses and adored all the Blaze books by CW Anderson.
Harry Potter books
I’m not sure I consider them children’s books once you get through the first few!!! They sure work for adults!!!
Yes The Hardy Boys got me started and I have been reading since .
Great question! Goodnight Moon when I was really little and probably Nancy Drew when I was a little older.
Enid Blyton books
The Adventures of Tin Tin.
The monster at the end of this book then Nancy Drew when I was a bit older
The Secret Garden
A is for Annabelle is the first one I remember rereading working on words like “reticule” and really studying the pictures. Hop on Pop was the first book I was aware that I could actually read – I read the whole thing “even the hard part” one afternoon, a very distinct memory!
Nancy Drew!
Me too
Same ??
Wee free men
Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Charlotte’s Web
The Secret Garden
The Borrowers
The Wind in the Willows
Recent favourite book – the wonky donkey
Winnie the pooh
Barbapapa.
Barnapapas were my favorites too! And Puputupuna , a Finnish storybook about a bunny. Then came Enid Blyton’s books. And Neverending story was a huge deal ❤️
Most of the Dr Zeus books ? ?
Babysitters’ club, Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Series of Unfortunate Events
Heidi…..most of my school projects for geography revolved around Switzerland after that!! 🙂
Kidnapped by Robert Louis
Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH
Nancy Drew, Heidi, later on Lorna Doone
The Little Engine That Could.. six years old.. that’s how young I started
The Box Car Children ?
Bridge to terabithia
Black Beauty, My Friend Flick, Thunderhead, Green, Green Grass of Wyoming.
Pippi Longstocking.
Magic faraway tree ?
Harry Potter… Came out when I was 10… And Manga from Inuyasha and Sailor Moon
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
I love that book! Read back in my teen years and I found it again recently and had to buy it!
Me too! I’ve read it a few times in my adult years too, it’s such a great book but sad heart wrenching story.
Stinky cheese man was a favorite as a child
Enid Blyton- Secret Seven..and thereafter started the wonderful sojourn!
Enid Blyton! Naughtiest Girl, Mallory Towers, O’Sullivan Twins, the magic far away tree..
Also Clover by Dori Sanders.
I loved Mallory Towers. I think I will have to read them again, even though I am now 59
Toto Chan
Huckleberry finn
The Little Prince
Cinderella, snow, the hound of baskervella etc
Wizard of oz
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
I loved that book!
One book from my childhood that I loved was called mr pudgins and it was about an older gentleman that babysat three kids and whenever he smoked his pipe strange things would happen. Like the reflections in the mirror of the kids would come out to play or all the taps in the house had different kinds of pop instead of water. I believe it may have been a book from my moms childhood. That’s one of the many books from my childhood as reading was a big thing in our family
Lion the witch and the wardrobe, the hobbit- some early ones; or if you want to go back earlier- @Goodnight and things in my house
James and the Giant Peach
One O’clock Fox ❤️
Heidi…Anne of green gables…
The Jungle Book (School Edition) by Rudyard Kipling. This was my Father’s book presented to him by his sister May 1939. Mowgli and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are still some of my favourite stories.
Eloise
The Little House on the Prairie series and Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret ?
Wizard of oz
The Weekly Reader Book Club started my reading journey – Who said Hoo? – The Giant Jam Sandwich – Mr. Muster and others. So fun
Charlottes Web
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief!
Magic faraway tree ?
Little Women
Charlottes Web
Mine aren’t necessarily children’s books but I love Louis L’Amour. I got hooked on his books in 4th grade.
Well, it depends on what age. I think my first most loved books were Beatrix Potter’s – The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers were my favourites. Then for some years it was the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, especially The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Then I think they were overtaken by the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge, which I found absolutely hilarious.
2nd grade, Island of the Blue Dolphins & Where The Red Fern Grows
The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton
The Little House books
Different age levels: Green Eggs and Ham; anything in the old Childhood of Americans series; the Little House series; Little Women. My Mom let me read Gone with the Wind when I was 10 years old! I was — and still am — more into history and historical fiction.
Sorry, Don’t know wgst age started reading, it wasn’t books. My Dad read Comics Brenda star, Andy cap, mandrake the magician , Lil Abner. By third grade reading fairy tales from the encyclopedia book of knowledge. Thank you Daddy.
Little Women
A Wrinkle in Time and Matilda!
Matilda
Little Women and Chronicles of Narnia
Also loved The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends poetry
I can’t remember mine! I just remember loving books. Am reading Bookworm by Lucy Mangan at the moment which is all about childhood books, it’s brilliant.
Bookworm is going on my list. Thanks for the recommendation
East
King in the window
Tistou of the green thumb, by Maurice Druon.
Little house on the prairie (whole series) & Heidi.
the children poems volumes of the Childcraft encyclopedia.
Charlotte’s Web
Giving tree, wrinkle in time, celery stalks at midnight (I can’t imagine it was very good but I still remember it!), the secret garden, where the red fern grows, Charlotte’s web. Love all the more current suggestions! Love sharing books w my kids.
Little bit older, but: The Magic Treehouse books! The American Girl doll books, Little House on the Prairie, Magic School Bus, Pippy Longstocking, Nancy Drew, A Series of Unfortunate Events
The adventures of pip by Enid Blyton
I am not sure which one started it but here are the stand outs: The Secret Garden, A Wrinkle in Time, The Children of Green Knowe (actually the whole series), The Power of Three (by Wynne Jones who wrote Howl’s Moving Castle which ironically is and has been on my TBR list) and two books by HM Hoover: Children of Morrow, and The Rains of Eridan.
all the famous fives and sercret sevens- mysteries are still my favourite books
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
While not the first book I read, it was one of the more memorable ones, and one of the ones that kicked off my love of reading: “The Girl in the Opposite Bed” by Honor Arundel
Bridge to Terabithia
Tom Sawyer
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
Oh god… too many!!! It’s my job and my passion:
Anything Dr Seuss started it all… my aunt was a teacher and had a room full!!!
Grimms Fairy Tales- Cinderella
The Giving Tree
Love you Forever
The BFG
Endless……
Micky Mouse comic books, joke books…
Stop!!!!! Brain stop!!!
Little Black Sambo… is that allowed????
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Enid Blyton books ❤️
The Paper Bag Princess; The Monster at the End of This Book and anything Richard Scarry
Nancy Drew series
Little Women
Nancy Drew
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl.
Black Beauty, Old Yeller and so many more!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Where The Wild Things Are.
The Borrowers,My Friend Flicka,My Side of the Mountain
Hansel and Gretel, I think.
Comic books – Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Lulu, Donald Duck and Huey Dewey and Louie. Also Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Mother Goose.
Wind in the Willows, and Enid Blyton’s books.
Dr Suess books all of them lol
Enid Blyton
The Frog and Toad books.
Room on the roof by Ruskin Bond
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. It’s a philosophical fiction that my mom read to me when I was 7, I read to myself from 9 and up. It gives you a different perspective every time you read it.
wow. u read that when u were 7? pretty impressive
My mom read it to me and discussed it with me. I wouldn’t say I understood it, but it made me think. Lol
It was the beginning of what I realized books could be.
I have a well loved copy that has been read many times.
narnia
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright. And later the entire series. ?
Walt Disney’s Cinderella, c. 1959 ?
The mad bad badger xx
The phantom toll booth & the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe!
Cherry Ames, RN
The original Brer Rabbit was my childhood favorite.
Charley & The Chocolate Factory in 5th grade.
Our teacher went above & beyond, by producing a signed letter from Mr. Wonka, & samples of a new product for us to try, once we read the book.
In the book there are square candies that look round. They turn & follow your movement.
The candies that we got to test were, round candies that look square.
Large round gummy spice drops, decorated with “ square” faces. Big glasses on their faces, etc.
Sounds like an amazing teacher.
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is mine. I know I had been read other books, or read them myself, but that’s the one that sticks with me. It’s the book that also inspired me to write. I try to re-read it every year.
All the little house books .. I still read them ! The boxcar children, Nancy Drew,
The Secret Garden and I also loved The World’s Best Fairy Tales, an anthology of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and others.
The Borrowers, Charlotte’s Web and The Boxcar Children.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Wish
A Little Princess
Charlotte’s Web. At least that’s the one I most remember.
My mom would put me to bed and I read every Judy Bloom book written! I’m not sure if it’s the books that I really loved or the special time with mom. But she started calling me an avid reader and talking about how much I loved to read. Adults would reinforce the heck out of that! I liked being a reader!
Maybe not the first but my favorites were “The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe “, and “Tales of Greece and Rome” I still love mythology all these years later
The Giving Tree
“Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt.
Enid Blyton The famous 5 (all the series actually, couldn’t get enough of them)!
Nancy Drew, the Ramona and Beezus series and anything by Judy Blume.
The first books I remember were
Captain Kitty
Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors
I remember standing next to my kindergarten teacher, Frieda Shanley, as she sat at her desk, her finger pointing patiently at each word in the Dick and Jane primer. 52 years ago, the words just came to me and the feeling was grand!
My Fathers Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett. And, the Little Engine that Could!
Strawberry Girl, Charlottes Web, Island of the Blue Dolphins!
Black Beauty.
Encyclopedia Brown
Clematis by Bertha Browning Cobb
The Velveteen Rabbit.
Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kaestner
@Linda, you are the first person I’ve ever met in the U.S. who has even heard of it. I picked it up as a precocious fine year old and was obsessed with the story. Later, as an adult who had, of course, seen multiple versions of The Parent Trap, I wondered if I’d only imagined that the original was more sophisticated and interesting than it’s more famous successors. It was out of print at the time, but I found a copy and… I had it right. Right down to the highly insightful understanding of what it meant for Lottie’s mother to be a single working parent with real responsibilities. Amazing that it was written in 1949 Germany. And the writing and story still hold up!
I’m in South Africa. I adored that book, and have not seen the movies 😀
Well, that explains everything 😉
Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss
Are You My Mother? P. D. Eastman
The American Girl books and Narnia.
Boxcar Children.
Ferdinand
Boxcar Children
A Wrinkle in Time and biographies about women.
Charlottes Web
Halfback Tough, by Thomas J Dygard
Dori the Witch
Junie B Jones! And the boxcar children. And the American girl books.
The Velveteen Rabbit❤❤❤
The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth
Clara Barton
My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, any Boxcar Children or Happy Hollisters……too many to pick…..
Charlotte’s Web
Where the Wild Things Are. Something Queer is going on at the library. Later/ books by Judy Blume and Norma Klein.
I loved Something Queer is Going On! I still have my copy of the first book @Alecia!
@Julie that’s amazing!
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Boxcar Children
I loved these when I was younger.
Trixie Beldon
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Heidi.
Little Women!
Winnie the Pooh
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Little Women
Goosebumps
The Ramona Quimby books
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Besty-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace ???
A Wrinkle in Time
James and the Giant Peach.
The Famous Five, The Secret Seven…
I’m old – so Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pippi Longstockings, Nancy Drew. Now – my daughter (who is now 27) loved In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, The Shoeshine Girl. You may have to see if you can get it in the library – out of print, but a really great, older book – The Trouble with Jenny’s Ear.
A Secret Garden
Shalock and the Cloud of Bad Dreams by C.F. Lawrenson. I was 4 or 5 when my dad wrote and illustrated it, but he didn’t have connections in publishing, so for years he just read it to me and my little sister from his oversized prototype, with his original illustrations. He didn’t actually publish it until about 6 years ago, but it not only shaped my life as a reader, but as a writer as well. I can read the whole book to my own kids now, without even looking at the words. ?
Hans Christian Anderson fairytales, A Little Princess, mostly classic children’s books.
Harriet the spy
As a child it was Little House Books & Nancy Drew.
As an adult reading to children Purple Yellow Green (Robert Munch) well any of his books
Boxcar Children
The Ladybird series
really little, golden books. I remember loving the The Little Red Hen.
“I’ll do it myself,” said the little red hen, and she did! I loved that one, too!
Little Women & a series called The Little Colonel. This was in the mid 50’s.
Nancy Drew
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
You’re from the UK? Definitely anything Enid Blyton. Especially “The Magic Faraway Tree” for kids into chapter books.
Heidi
Heidi for me too.
Winnie the pooh.
Loved these too!
My grandchildren loved the little guy too. Who could resist all the rest of the characters.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Yes, The Borrowers, the whole series!!
Little Women started it, but my favorite is In the Night Kitchen, Sarah Plain and Tall, and the Polar Express.
Babysitter club series. My husbands was where the wild things are and my son is currently loving the napping house.
Matilda!
A Little Golden Book, called “Katie, the Kitten,” was the beginning of my reading experience at age 4. I still have it and can quote most of it by heart. I’ve always loved reading…
My favorite Golden Book was The Mailman of Blueberry Lane. Before i was reading i made my mom read it over and over and over.
I also loved the Little Golden Book called “Little Peewee, or Now Open the Box.” About a tiny dog in a circus. I cried over that one!
Baby sitters club series, Harry Potter series
If you give a mouse a cookie, when I decided not to go back to preschool that was the book I remember they gave me when I left.
Enid blyton! The faraway tree series
The Bobbsey Twins’ Mystery on the Deep Blue Sea
I forgot about them…..
It didn’t start my reading journey but I have always really loved A Wrinkle in Time.
Hardy Boys; Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Charlotte’s Web, The Time Machine, Tom Swift and the City in the Stars.
Charlotte’s Web!!!❤️???
I can still remember the teacher reading The Wind in the Willows to us when I was 10. It remains my favourite book ~ loved the pen and ink drawings of it and now have a huge poster of the whole book on my wall ~ yes ~ whole story in one poster ~ tiny print obviously!
My mother, Elvira Park, used to read The Wind in the Willows to her students, years ago. She was a lover of books and of children!
Me too Karen Park MacDermaid. [It was ‘years ago’ that I was 10!!]
@Pippa Me, too! 😉
?Luckily I have 4 grandchildren who I love to spend time with ~ I don’t think they mind how old you are!!
And I have 8! I’ve loved reading to them! Now, I listen while they read!
Oh brilliant! The eldest of mine is 5, she is now reading fluently but the others are a bit too young ~ they all love being read to except that the 5 year old now likes reading it herself almost as much. Giving children a love of books is priceless!
@Pippa Our eldest is 17 and the youngest is 7. Grandchildren are a joy! And reading to them, with them, and listening to them read is such a blessing! As you said…Priceless!
Harry Potter didn’t start my journey, but it didn’t hurt either
Little House on the Prairie
Nancy Drew Secret of the Old Clock.
Are you there God? Its me, Margaret.
James and the Giant Peach
Nancy Drew and believe it or not Dick and Jane in school…. someone posted the bobbsey twins. I forgot about them…. must not have left an impression although i read quite a few of them…. nancy was much better….
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Black Beauty
I also enjoyed Beatrix Potter and Winnie the Pooh books.
Horton Hears a Who
Because, a person’s a person’s no matter how small.
In A People House (I’m not kidding, I LOVED this book!)
Wind in the Willows
Harry Potters, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Narnia, Sisterhood of the travelling pants.
The Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett
The “Pogo” comic strip was my teacher.
Christine Hartzell … we are clearly kindred spritis!! I LOVE Pogo. I still have an awesome hardback book of Pogo from my earliest Pogo days. All things Dr. Seuss, all things Winnie the Pooh, and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe series were very high on my list as well.
The Archie comics. And Hwere the Red Fern Grows. ?
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Wind in the Willows. The original, not the Disneyfied version.
The Little Prince
Goosebumps series
Where the Red Fern Grows
Favorite children’s book to read to a young child, Goodnight Moon. Favorite Children’s book to read: Peter Rabbit. I still have phrases from that book that stick after all these years, when the bird was distressed and trying to help Peter disentangle himself from a wire fence: he “implored him to exert himself.”
Little Bear (I can read book series). LOVED these as a kid.
Charlotte’s web
Hans Christian Anderson, and Grimn Fairy Tales.
My Grandparents gave them to me back in the early 1950’s, read them over and over?
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A Wrinkle in Time
I love the Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood.
I think it was called Teebone the Babysitter (beautiful ink & wash illustrations about a cat & a baby).
The Junie B Jones series by Barbara Parks! And the Magic Tree House books too!
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
A lot of these books were favorites of mine as well.
Where The Wild Things Are.
Alive In Wonderland. Caroline. There’s one I read but I can’t remember the name! It was so good! Bless Me, Ultima.
When I was teaching 8-10 year olds, their hands down favorite was Julie Andrews’ The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. Of course they loved the different voices I used. Great read aloud!!e
Littlewomen
Magic tree house books and Junie B jones
The Island of the Blue Dolphins.
James and the Giant Peach
A Wrinkle in Time, and Anne of Green Gables.
Babysitter club, nancy drew
Little Women
Alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day
Who Walks the Attic? by Laura Bannon
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!
Heidi. I was too young to read it and my older sister read it to me, chapter by chapter.
So long ago and far away——
Charlotte’s Web and Little House on the @Prairie
The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Search for Delicious, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle … going back really far, Frog and Toad, Owl at Home, The Runaway Bunny!
I started reading Little House books after watching the show. I was an adult. The other novel I remember, that really made an impression on me, and started my reading, was The Shipping News.
A Wrinkle in Time, surprised it took so long for a movie to be made. Close seconds Little Women & Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, followed by the All of a Kind Family series.
They tried to make a TV version of A Wrinkle in Time several years ago – and it was awful, focusing entirely on the specific events of the book while losing its soul and sense of wonder. This upcoming Ava Duvarnay version looks so much truer to the feeling of the original book – if they got it right, it will have been worth the wait 🙂
Actually a movie was made of it several years ago (20-25 years ago?) starring Alfre Woodard. I showed it to my 6th graders after we concluded our novel unit on the book.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Beatrix Potter books. I have the little ones
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Katie John by Mary Calhoun ?
The Secret Garden, Understood Betsy
The island of adventure Enid blyton
Bedtime for Francis was my favorite book as a child. Sarah Plain and Tall and Robinson Crusoe were the first chapter books I really loved.
There are so many. Here are a few:
Picture books:
Airmail to the Moon
Paper bag Princess
Koala Lou
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Love You Forever
Chapter Books:
Jacob Have I Loved
Walk Two Moons
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Skinny Bones
Lizzy and the Buckminster Boy
Hank the Cowdog series
Harry Potter series
Hunger Games series
It’s probably a popular answer but until I read the first Harry Potter book I hated reading. Finished that book and I could not grab another book fast enough.
Nancy Drew
Bobsey Twins, Happy Hollisters, Honey Bunch. There…I’ve dated myself.
I remember the Bobsey Twins?
Ferdinand the bull
Brighty of the Grand Canyon is the first book I bought for myself. But my Nana gave me several early in my life. One was Just So Stories. I still have them
The Secret Garden
Junie B. Jones in the first grade! ?
The Secret Garden
Charlotte web
Definitely ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ C.S. Lewis. First of the Narnia books and everything by Roald Dahl especially BFG, Danny the Champion of the World and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Magic!
Too long ago to remember but I do know I always liked Mythology.
My mom bought me Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology” when I was 8. I devoured it and I’m still hooked on mythology!
@Victoria That’s the one. I was around 8 when I got it. Just brought it over to let my 11 year old granddaughter read the part about Troy as she is studying Ancient Greece in school. She already loves mythology and has read all the Percy Jackson amongst other things. But the Hamilton book has to be the best!
Wilfred S. Bronson’s “Cats.”
Favorite is Clown of God by Tomie dePaola. The book that I kept reading over and over was The Girl With Silver Eyes by Wilo Davis Roberts.
The Giving Tree and anything else by Shel Silverstein
And Pippi Longstocking
The Twits – Roald Dahl! ❤️❤️
Aw mine too!!!!! I can alway remember my Nan telling me she felt like a twit asking for it in the bookshop. I think she thought I was making it up to make her look silly! ?✨
Enid Blyton’s Secret -Seven & Tintin series by Herge..
I don’t remember what I liked as a child but adore Shel Silverstein’s books when I had kids. My favorites!!
Wayside School is Falling Down
All Roald Dahl books, Laura Ingalls Wilder books, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Secret Garden, Heidi, so many more. Books saved my life as a child. I needed a place to escape
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
clifford the big red dog
Half Magic
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Tomorrow’s Children (an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov)
The Velveteen Rabbit. Goodnight Moon.
the velveteen rabbit <3
Dr. Seuss was always a favorite of mine read every one of his books as a Kid now read them to my grandkids
As a teacher I always recommended:
Tuck Everlasting
One-eyed Cat
Jacob Have I Loved
Hatchet
Sarah Pain and Tall
Anne of Green Gables
Pollyanna
Up a Road Slowly
I may think of others later.
I haven’t read the book but Tuck Everlasting the movie was just beautiful
@Amsley The book and the movie are quite moving.
Lois LeMarquand It is a great book!
The Borrowers. The Wind in the Willows.
Baby Island, Treasure Island, Pippi Longstocking, and The Boxcar Children.
Little House on the Prairie series
Harry Potter ?
When my mom was still reading to me, Little Golden Books. At 6 or 7, The Happy Hollisters. A bit older and I loved the Tripods Trilogy.
Cristina Katerina and the box ? ! And a story about the little match girl. I totally didn’t understand the meaning but the pictures were magical.
The View from the Cherry Tree or The House on Hackmans Hill. They both got me going and led me into goosebumps which I devoured throughout elementary school and middle school.
My grandfather was an English teacher. I remember sneaking into his den when I was 4 and I found a bunch of old Dick and Jane books. I taught myself to read from them. ❤️
The Twits, by Roald Dahl ?
Charlotte’s Web and The Secret Garden
The hardback Nancy Drew books.
The Five Little Peppers
little golden books
The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler.
Le Petit Prince
Bony- legs and the Billy and Blaze books
Charlottes web, numbering the stars, the ghosts of mercy manor
The Lonely Doll Series by Dare Wright also madeline series and April’s Kittens by Claire Newberry
LOVED this book!
Harry Potter always, Esperenza Rising, Forged By Fire, Stellaluna (young children’s book), Numbering the Stars, anything Shel Silverstein.
The Little Mommy. I don’t know who the author was, but it was a little golden book. I had it memorized before I started school.
I loved that book!!
The book’s that started my reading journey were Sweet Valley. I read them all Sweet Valley twins, high, kids. I could not get enough of those books
I loved those too!!
Winnie the Pooh
One that is currently at the forefront of the media as the movie comes out this Friday and I am WAY excited” A WRINKLE IN TIME”
Nancy Drew
Thanks all for taking the time to reply. So many wonderful books. I am going to start collecting some of them for my grandchildren to read.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Famous 5
Ballet shoes
Black Beauty
Oh, how could I forget Black Beauty?! ❤ & ?
A wrinkle in time
My favorite! Just bought for my granddaughters and my book group is re-reading it before the movie…
The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
Anything Nancy Drew, the old ones when she drove a roadster and wore white gloves! Loved those books when I was a kid!
I loved reading the Mary Poppins series over and over. Before that was the Bobbsey Twins and Five Little Peppers.
Sweet blood
I loved teaching The Cay to middle schoolers. It’s a compelling story that exposes kids that age to ideas and concepts that provide opportunities for wonderful discussions.
We read every day at home. But the first “favorites” that came to my mind were a set of biographies bound in orange and filling two whole shelves at our church library. I checked out a book or two every week until I had read them all. It was fascinating to me to read about real people living all around the world and facing different circumstances.
My Mom’s Harlequin Romance novels. Lol
When I was 10, my friend and I read Dracula and also my Mom’s copy of Peyton Place!
Grades 1 to 6 my teachers kept saying that my reading had to improve. Cs and Ds. I laugh at that now as I love to read all thanks to all the Harlequins Mom had sitting there.
Haha. I remember finding my dad’s Joy of Sex in his underwear drawer ??
We had set of Childcraft books.
And the set of Uncle Arthur’s bedtime stories. I read them all from cover to cover so many times. Then my children read them. I had them until they got ruined in a house flood. So Sad.
Little House in the Big Woods.
I remember making that proud leap from stories to chapter books. Beverly Cleary’s “Ellen Tebbits” was my first. I read “Dear Mr. Henshaw” just a few years ago and was blown away – Miss Cleary’s books are timeless.
loved the Ramona books!
The Wind in the Willows
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Hank the cow dog
Cant say Because contraversial theese days. Was innocent and did not see any thing wrong back then.
The Velveteen Rabbit. I cried the first time, and still do.
I loved reading from early on – a very daydreamy kid – so I have lots of favorites, but I think the Borrowers really sparked my imagination. I went around picturing myself living under the china hutch or in the garden or in the school library.
Didn’t really have a children’s book but the Nancy Drew series (my first one being The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion) started my adventure…
Also the Goosebumps series, those were fun
The Secret Garden did it for me.
It sure did it for me, too. I STILL read and reread that book. I just love it. Have you read A Little Princess? Same author, and it is not childish, I think it still has a lot to offer a grown up.
Trixie Belden Mysteries
Loved Trixie and all the Bobwhites!
Yes!
Little House on the Prairie series, Black Stallion series, Secret Garden, Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Alice in Wonderland, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys.
Little House series, Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood (nostalgia), Anne of Green Gables series, Ramona Quimby series, and A Special Trade by Sally Wittman (read it as a child and cried. So touching)
Lad, A Dog
The Hank the Cowdog books.
The Boppsey Twins and Trixie Belden
You must have been born in the 50s- those are my first series also!!
The title is terrible, the story is my favorite. I’ve read it so much (still) that the cover is in tatters, much like the titular blanket. My favorite kids book is Wigger, by William Goldman.
The Thornton W. Burgess animal stories…
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Valley of Colour Days and The Borrowers.
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
My husband always talks about these books and loved them. We didn’t have them in my library growing up!
I was addicted to them. It took a really good school librarian to get me out of my rut!
Whistle for Willie!
Trumpet of the Swan by EB White… loved that book!
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Boxcar Children
Nancy Drew.
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES and a little later, LITTLE WOMEN and the Nancy Drew mysteries.
Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and Little House books, then Anne of Green Gables. The book that insured that I would one day be a member of a group like this though, was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I was 10, it was a hot summer day and I got the book from the Bookmobile that parked down the street every couple of weeks. I sat on my front porch, opened it … and basically have never stopped reading a book since that moment.
I remember how much I loved the little house and Anne of green gables books. But I also read a tree grows in Brooklyn and it changed my life
It is strange because I’ve changed my mind about so many things throughout my life. But the one consistent response whenever anyone asks about my favorite book has always been and always will be A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, although I can’t exactly express why.
@Laura I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn when I read it. At the time I thought it was written for me! Time for a re-read!
This is statement will sound strange coming from an avid lifelong reader but I have never read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn until now! I knew of its existence but I never got around to it. I bought it at Barnes and Noble last week and just started and I’m liking it! Better late than never?
Ferdinand
Pippi Longstocking
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself [by Judy Blume]. I’ve read it many times.
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
Oh my…one of my childhood favorites!
Charlotte’s Web.
Rainbow for Me
The Boxcar Children
Secret Garden
Harvey’s Hideout
Charlotte’s Web and Where the Sidewalk Ends
I loved where the side walk ends!
Blueberries for Sal.
Shel Silverstein
Rocco by Sherryl Jordan
Goodnight Moon.
Hamish Meets Bumpy McKenzie
It began with my mom reading to us before bed….books like Toby Tyler.
The Five Chinese Brothers
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret.
Bread and Jam for Frances
Harold and the purple crayon
Yes! Same here! I hunted down that book – as it’s out of print – and found it amongst a pile of culled library books and have kept it… it was the very first book I read on my own without the phonetics written out below it. 😀
@Lynda not out of print- just bought two board books copies for my new baby granddaughter and new great niece- can’t wait to give “the littles” as I call them as gifts !!!
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Harry Potter
‘The Crystal Cave’, Mary Stewart; ‘The Wizard of Earthsea’, Ursula K. LeGuin.
“The Country Bunny and The Little Gold Shoes” and “The Boxcar Children”
loved the Boxcar Children!
@Crystal Oh me too! They were the best!
Bread and butter Indian
A wrinkle in time
Oh the Places You’ll Go. Still my favorite.
The Monster at the End of this Book
Green Eggs & Ham
The little Prince
Secret World Of Og
I learned to read with “One Fish, Two Fish……”.
It’s a tie between “Oh the Places You’ll Go and The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs…lol
The Maggie B
Nancy Drew,Alice in Wonderland
Playtime Poodles and The Bunny Twins
Any patricia pollaco book ♡♡
Trixie Belden mysteries
When I was Young in the Mountains.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory, loved it (I actually stole it from my mum’s bookshop because the pictures appealed to me)
I will always love Where The Wild Things Are”.
The Little House on the Prairie series
@Heidi
The Boxcar Children
Where the sidewalk ends ? Silverstein
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. Little Black Sambo.
I loved Nancy Drew I think I read all her books
Enid Blyton – gave me a love of thrillers and mysteries. Also made me demand to be sent to boarding school… Malory Towers it wasn’t!
Lol you mean the head wasn’t like Miss Greyson (was it Greyson?) and they weren’t all tough but fair like Darrell, Sally and Alicia? Dammit!
@Ellie No but worst thing ever – there positively no midnight feasts! Devasting!
@Ruth-Blandina No lashings of ginger beer! Nooooo!
@Ellie None 🙁 And no macaroons.
Charlotte’s Web
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
Three Little Ponies, Fair Bay, then the Little House books, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Love Miss Piggle Wiggle ?
The first book I read without any help was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel so it will always have a special place in my heart.
My brother’s favorite!
The End of the Sidewalk
Got Lord of the Rings read to us in grade four – best thing ever!
“MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS” – Robert McCloskey
love this book
James and the Giant Peach, read numerous times at bedtime. Followed closely by Matilda.
Alice in wonderland and anne of the green gables
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss, then The Bobbsey Twins and Trixie Belden books, and later anything by Judy Blume.
I don’t remember for me ?. But for my almost 8yr old it’s Thea Stilton series…. She finished 3 books and on to fourth one .. ordered the next already.
Nancy Drew