What are/were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know?
What are/were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know?
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What are/were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know?
The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak by Dinah Maria Mulock!
I remember the Little Lame Prince!
Wow! You’re the first person I know that does besides me
Ghost in the Garden by Carol H Behrman and The Little Leftover Witch by Florence Laughlin.
I remember The Little Leftover Witch. It was my brother’s favorite.
A Pattern of Roses and Fly By Night by K.M Peyton
Pippi Longstockings she would get into everything.
Pippi Longstockings ?
She was my favorite too I even dressed up like here to
@Elizabeth that’s so awesome!
Betsey’s Little Star by Carolyn Hayward
I was just rereading Superfudge and it seemed like three or four people didn’t know
@Jenny loves those books!
I read them so much when I was younger that my school librarian gave me a copy of it
I loved the Superfudge books as a kid!
Lucy Babbidge’s House, Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
The series by c s Adler about Pink Pig
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
I absolutely LOVE that book!
Hitty, A Doll
I don’t remember the title unfortunately but the story revolved around a plane crash where the only survivors were a boy, a girl and a baby. I loved the story. It was innocent and pure.
@Maria this made me really curious
@Sarah unfortunately its been years and I cannot remember the title. I just know I read it many times
The Mermaid
Had only ever seen my copy until last year when my daughters classroom had a copy
Beyond the Wall by Christa Laird
Trumpet of the Swan was always my favorite kids book but most people know it. I also read all the Judy Blume books and Peg Kerhet books. Peg Kerhets book My Brother Made Me Do It is my favorite
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Snyder
I have to say Nancy Drew, those books started me on my road to loving mysteries.
@Susan ditto
But most people knew about them
How about Elsie Dinsmore?
Unheard of ?
The Secret Garden
That, without a doubt, was my favorite book as a child!!
There was something haunting and mystical about it.
Pictures of Hollis Woods. I got it at an elementary book fair and I don’t remember what it’s about but I remember absolutely loving it. It’s still on my shelf ?
I loved the Just William books when I was a kid
I’m sure other places know but they weren’t around where I live, but the Trixie Belden series
I always preferred Trixie Belden to Nancy Drew.
@Julie me too. I like how she stays in trouble. Lol
Yesssss! My best friend and I would pretend to be Trixie and Honey! I loved those books!
Mr. Pines Mixed-Up Signs. A sign painter in town lost his glasses prior to his installation of all the new signs he painted. Example: He put the bakery sign on the gas station, pet store sign on the library — funny stuff when you’re a kid. ?
I loved The Silver Crown by Robert C. O’Brien. Everyone knows Mrs. Frisby, but this one seems to be less well known.
Down these mean streets by Piri Thomas
The Furthest Away Mountain, Emily of New Moon,
The Great Brain series
We Shook the Family Tree. By Hildegard Dolson. Family of eccentrics in Pennsylvania early 1900’s. Oldest daughter narrates.
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Fairly certain others will recognize these books that I read and loved growing up:
Nancy Drew, Trixie Beldon, BobbseyTwins, Black Stallion, Big Red, Little House Series, Charlotte’s Web, Narnia series. Childhood!
@Kris I’d forgotten about the Bobbsey Twins
Jennifer Henley Peters Hurray! I had a title that qualifies for this post.
I forgot Marguerite Henry stories: Misty of Chincoteague and Brighty of the Grand Canyon were a couple of my favs.
Plant that ate dirty socks. How to eat fried worms.
The sky dog. Adorable picture book
Without A Home by Hector Malot (actually translated in English as Nobody’s Boy). This was the first book ever to have me crying out loud without a pause, hiccups and all, to the point where I had to put the book down for a few hours to compose myself.
“Honestly Katie John”
I loved Judy blume books and the book why just me by Martyn godfrey
Rusty by S.P. Meek. I found it with a diligent online search several years ago and got a copy and reread it for the first time in over 40 years and loved it all over again.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. I am not sure if it was well known by kids or not to be honest though.
The Nancy Drew Notebook series
@Bianca I was just thinking of the Nancy Drew Mystery books, thank you
Shark Lady, the story of Eugenie Clark… She is a biologist.. I read it over and over, pretty sure I got from a scholastic fair.
Junk Day on Juniper Street
Champion Dog Price Tom by Jean Fritz.
the prize cocker spaniel! i remember this one.
one of my fave dog stories…. Gumpy, son of Spunk. loved the title. Trub’s Diary is great!
The Riddle Master of Hed Trilogy and anything by Andre Norton I read all I could get my hands on before my 13th Birthday
Mandy by Julie (Andrews) Edwards
@Martha I loved that book!!!!
@Amy it so fun and beautiful
When I was around 10-13 I loved books by Wendy Mass
Hans and the Silver Skates
When I was about 10 years old, I read 50 or 60 biographies. There were books for many famous Americans. They were by different authors but apparently by the same publisher. My guess would be that they were published in the 50’s. Each book was approximately 200 pages. There were some that I didn’t get around to reading before I went on to other books. I would love to find the books again.
I found them. They were the Childhood of Famous Americans series. I loved them.
I read every single book! I truly believe these books started by love of history and reading.
Julie of the Wolves
@Deedee that was so good!
The Charlie Brown Cyclopedia. A series of books that I believe you bought in supermarkets in the early 80s. It was a series of books covering different subjects.
Trapped in Death cave
I don’t remember the title and have been searching for it. Red cover. Pink dust jacket. Read when I was about 12. About family that moved to a house where children not too happy. Learning to love house. Maybe five kids. Oldest girl described with long blond hair. Younger sister with curly dark hair. Reference to house’s cupolas. Sound familiar? Would love to find this book. Tried many ways. No luck.
@Carol was it maybe Elizabeth Enright’s Four Story Mistake?
A friend back in the eighties suggested this title. I am going to look again. Didn’t have the author until now and I think I looked under Five story mistake. Thank you! Wonderful book from my childhood in the 60s. I’ll let u know if I find it!
Encyclopedia Brown & a book I cant remember the title of about a group of kids who build a fake loch ness monster and drive it around their local lake ?????
@Sean did they make the Loch Ness story into a movie? I remember seeing something like that, but at the end the real monster made an appearance.
The Button Boat Two children live in squalor with their drunken stepfather, maintaining themselves through their cleverness in catching clams and the hope that they might someday attend school.
I always liked the Andrew Lang fairy tale books– the title were colors. The red fairy boo, the blue fairy book, the yellow fairy book, the blue fairy book.
I bought them all on Amazon when I got my first Kindle yeats ago. They’re still wonderful.
Okay, I’m aging myself, but I loved the Betsy Tacey books. Also, Black Beauty was the first book to make me cry.
I bought my girls the Betsy/Tacey books. They own all of them, and LOVED them! 🙂 They were one of my favorite reads as a kid! 🙂
The Trixie Belden mystery series
@Lisa We have about 30 of those. 🙂 I also loved Nancy Drew and The Bobbsey Twins! 🙂
I kept a LOT of my old books from when I was a kid. I love reading them to mine or introducing them to the stories. I can’t wait to do the same thing with my grandson! 🙂
The Black Stallion books!
The Giving Tree
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Love You Forever
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Strega Nona books by Tomi de Paola. He is an author who lived down the street from me and always was excited about his new books
“Coure” by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis. The English title is “Heart”. I remember I read it again and again throughout my whole childhood.
I had a book w/ pics of a teddy bear dressed up as different characters on each page. Whenever I didn’t know what to do, I looked through that book to give me ideas what to play.
Head high Ellen Brody
Signature books. The story of…George Washington, Mozart, Florence Nightengale- I loved these books which introduced me to famous people from history and started me on my love of history. Published in the 60s and 70s by Grosset & Dunlap
In grade school we had this little paper called a Weekly Reader and in the back were books you could buy – my first purchase ever a book was a small paperback about Helen Keller.
@Faith I love that memory of yours ?
I remembering read that book too, then seeing the movie. Patti Duke and Anne Bancroft were excellent.
I loved the weekly reader! It was always so exciting picking out what to get. And we didnt have a bookstore, so it was my only regular source for books.
I had a book about Helen Keller from the weekly reader too. It had the Braille alphabet on the back cover. I loved that book! Her story fascinated me!
@Stephanie that’s really cool! I’ve never seen that one. She was very interesting, i agree
@Beth My source of books also. I actually still have the book. The first book I ever purchased with my own money.
Who Goes There Lincoln
The series of Freddy the Pig Books by Walter R. Books, about the adventures of talking farm animals and their adventures. Great for Grammar school kids.
I loved “Cheese Peas and Chocolate Pudding” when I was a little kid and no one else seems to be familiar with this one.
Lost on A Mountain in Maine
The year my sister got lucky
Winnetou
all of Nancy Drew series
@Cyndi I enjoyed those too.
A Day No Pigs Would Die, April Morning, Where The Lilies Bloom , Where The Red Fern Grows.
The Dana girls series. It was a mystery series by Carolyn Keene. Everyone has heard of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys but not the Dana Girls.
Nancy drew series, trixie belden series, honey bunch and Norman series