What are/were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know?The books no one else has ever heard of.
What are/were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know?The books no one else has ever heard of.
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The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak by Dinah Maria Mulock! #HouseIDigYou
the Foreigner by Gladys Malvern
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes and The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox
#HouseBeMine
The Lionheart brothers
The Mallory towers books! Or any enid blyton books/series I loved them all.
@Victoria I devoured as many Enid Blyton books as I could, as a child. #houselovebug
The Sunset Island series by Cherie Bennett and Mandy by Julie Edwards.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
This was required reading at my school!
I loved it. I remember checking it out repeatedly and my mom asking if I was sure I didn’t want something different lol still has such relevance.
I just read that for the first time last month, it was really good!
Any of E. Nesbit’s books or the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books (apparently I liked older books as a child ??♀️)
Emil and the detectives ?
Also girl of the limberlost
The Boxcar Children! #HouseBeMine My third grade teacher read it to us and a few of us bookworms in class read the books on our own. Fast forward 30 yrs… we have our own bookclub! ?
Loved those books!!
I would say The Snow Queen, but lots of people know that story as well as many other stories by Hans Christian Andersen. So I’ll say The Princess and the Goblin.
The Betsy & Tacy books!
Princess and the Goblin
My fav ?
That’s my husband’s favorite author! He just read me this book about a year ago.
Sarah Hassan Actually,I’ve read only a part of this courtesy of the Collier’s Junior Classics handed down from older cousins.Same as with The Hundred Dresses.But I still read these excerpts whenever I get my hands on those particular volumes.I just love them.I always go back to the magic of when Princess Irene first meets her great great grand mother.I never get tired of Wanda and her story,albeit late triumph, with the hundred dresses.
But No Elephants! ? #housebemine
Mister God,this is Anna by Fynn
@Marilou one of my favorite books ?
Time at the top and The Light in the Forest if you still consider a 12 year old girl a child.
Julie of the Wolves. I learned so much from those books and they made me fall so hard in love with books. ?
#HouseSoulmate
Don’t Hurt Laurie. I forget who it’s by.
@Mary I read that! It was so good!
Dairy of a killer cat
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Flight-Mushroom-Planet/dp/0316125407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549820346&sr=8-1&keywords=adventure+to+the+mushroom+planet
I was crazy about that book as a child! I re-read it and I have no clue why I loved it so much! LOL
I adored “I’ve lost my yellow zebra” as a child and one when I was slightly older about a girl nicknamed Hannah Banana and she died. Don’t recall what the book what called though and that upsets me. #HouseLoveBug
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi. It hooked me on reading.
@Katrina yes I loved that one!! #houselovebug
Maybird and the ever after series and the city of ember series #houselovebug
I was really obsessed with Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey. I reread it so many times but I could never get into the rest of the series #HouseSoulmate
Judy blume, little house on the prairie,
Nancy drew
Term Paper by Ann Rinaldi
Beautiful Joe
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom. I recently found out that there’s an entire series after it and now I have to find a way to wedge it into my TBR!
#HouseIDigYou
@Andrea I got this from my scholastic book fair! I haven’t thought about it in so long but ADORED it
The seventh tower by Garth Nix
Morris the Moose series
Purple Pickle Juice
#HouseBeMine
Thunder from the Sea
I loved the Bobbsie Twins
Secrets of the shopping mall by Richard Peck. And chance and the grand rascal by Sid Fleishman.
The Pink Motel
The Witch of Blackbird Pond. The house that inspired the author is in my town and is a museum. I give tours there.
Pretty cool. #HouseXO
The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story
By Mary Downing Hahn
& No Baths for Tabitha
By Sharon K. Thomas
Trixie Belden
Flossie & Bossie by Eva Le Gallienne, The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars, Knock Three Times by Eva St. John Webb, The Far-Distant Oxus by Katharine Hull, Two On an Island by Bianca Bradbury. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1764210.Two_on_an_Island
Leo the Lop when I was really little, about a lop-eared bunny who lives with upright ear bunnies. Can’t remember the author. I also loved Deenie by Judy Blume. Everything I read was quite well known, but Deenie wasn’t huge when I was a kid. In my teen years, I really loved Letters From the Inside and So Much to Tell You, both by John Marsden and no one talks about them, which I don’t understand at all. #houselovebug
Beach dogs #HouseIDigYou
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume. No on else read it or liked it but I read it so many times. My first World War II novel. #HouseLoveBug
Love Lessons by Jacqueline Wilson
Inheritance cycle… I live in Albania and I read the book when I was 14/15 y.o. in English. My friends all read only books translated in Albanian therefore I was a lone wolf in the sector of books in foreign language. This series was translate almost 10 years later #houselovebug
Cool question! Probably Maisie and the PinnyGig ? #HouseXO
Goosebumps and the Bluford series,
A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
I loved the book ‘The Man Who Loved Clowns’. I even met the author & she signed my book. #HouseIDigYou