What is the one book you remember as a child that changed you in some way or became your all time favorite?
What is the one book you remember as a child that changed you in some way or became your all time favorite?
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Stig of the dump x
I was just about the post the same answers. Bravo good sir you reading taste are exquisite.
I read gone with the wind when I was in 5th grade and ever since then I have been in love with that writing style. It realy got me into reading the classics as well, which not too many people enjoy now days.
The Twits gave me a love of reading that has never left me.
Little House in the Big Woods
The Island of the Blue Dolphins
Stig of the dump
So a few people said this one but I’ve never read it. What is it about and is it worth reading? I’m always up for new material
Little Women
Idli orchid and mi from an entrepreneur Mr vitthal kamat
Little House on the Prairie, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atlas Shrugged, progressing from young age until mid-teens.
Lotr
The giving tree . Anything by shel Silverstein. Honestly. Then harry potter when the first book came out my mom started reading it to me and that really help shape me in to the person I am today
My kids introduced me to Shel and I found I really liked his writing.
@Ivy Love the Missing Piece
Charlottes Web by E.B. White
the nancy drew books, but I liked so many others, too
Charlottes Web taught me to be compassionate in death and started my passion for the love of animals.
Tuck Everlasting and Bridge to Terebithia!
All of Tintin.
I received a book called Claudia one year as a gift…it became my favorite because very rarely is there anything with my name on it! My friends all had pencils..bike license plates..cups…but now i had a book! I was so proud!
Matilda! It was the book that jump started my love of reading!
Hoot Owl in the 2nd grade
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton xx
Little House Books and Nancy Drew.
Silent Storm. Can’t remember the author’s name anymore, but I’m pretty sure i still have the book somewhere.
Matilda
Winnie the Pooh
Nancy Drew
The Wizard of Oz – maybe that’s why I write almost nothing but fantasy, and also why I’ve always yearned for a pair of ruby slippers.
Oh you should find a pair!
Maybe someday! But unfortunately, I don’t really think they’ll take me home if I find myself in Oz.
Child of the wolves by Elizabeth hall. I always remember and adore this book as it was one of my first books that made me love fiction. I remember reading it until it fell apart as a kid!
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Yearling
I loved that book. It was one that my dad gave me to read when I was ten and recovering from surgery. I was already an avid reader and that book really touched my heart!
Gosh Trixie Belden books…. Enid Blyton books…i love mysteries?
I had forgotten about Trixie-I read her stories too.
Fairy tales. My teacher read them to us during story time and I became obsessed. I’d go to the library and search for any kind of fairytale. I love reading different versions from different cultures and the illustrations.
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, I wanted to become a writer.
p.s. I did
@Julie awesome
The Golden Compass
(I was so excited as an adult that they made a movie!! Then the movie was AWFUL) So I read the book again and fell in love with it all over again as an adult!!
The Giver had me shook in elementary school. It was the first dystopian book I’d ever read. And, of course, Harry Potter in fourth grade changed my life forever.
The Outsiders but I was 14
The Secret Garden…I read it over and over and still makes me cry!!
Love it Lavern 🙂
There are few plots as poignant and touching as when Colin is walking to his dad!!
@Lavern true 🙂
Fog Magic.
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales .
In my case it wasn’t a single book, my folks invested in a set of encyclopedias. If I couldn’t go outside for some reason, It could travel the world.
Hard to imagine that this younger generation will never know how much information was to be found just scanning through each volume!!
I was thinking something similar, I wondered if the kids in school even have access to encyclopedias
The Secret Garden.
Yup…my favorite!
A Wrinkle in Time
The Once and Future King
The Little House on The Prairie collection(:
The Black Stallion series.
Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce.
First fantasy I ever read. Had this great female knight! I loved it so much I read the rest of her books. And a lot are connected or in the same world. She even had this pirate adventure series! Quickly became my first favorite author as a young girl ?
It didn’t really change my life, or became an all time favorite, but it meant a great deal to me.
For no reason whatsoever, my Mom surprised me with The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber. We were a very poor family, and so to get a gift out of the blue was extraordinarily meaningful.
James Thurber also had an impact on me while pretty young, Grace. I remember reading “Walter Mitty” and several of his other works, as well as looking at some really funny cartoons. I still haven’t read “Is Sex Necessary?,” but I have to say that’s one of the most riotously funny titles of all time.
This is the only James Thurber I’ve read. I’ve not even thought of seeing what else he wrote, perhaps I should.
Me too–time to circle back to him.
Charlotte’s Web.
The Outsider