What was your favorite book when you were a kid?
What was your favorite book when you were a kid?
Mine was and still is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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What was your favorite book when you were a kid?
Mine was and still is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
Same!!!!
Bridge to Terebithia – It was one of the first books to make me feel deeply
The Westing Game
Charlotte’s Web ?️?️ <3
Me too! ?
a great story of friendship, compassion & loyalty…I also read to my sons when they were little
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Those dreadful kids by Enid blyton…wow…it’s so fun …I still like to read it
I have to check that one out.
The silver sword.
Beauty and the Beast, the original with french illustrations!!! Age 5. Had My Grammy read it over and over!
The blue sword
YES! Me too!
Oliver Twist.
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was a brilliant book and could have been based on fact: https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/true-story-legend-sleepy-hollow
Island of the Blue Dolphin
The Family Nobody Wanted
Matilda.
Stig of the dump..
“A Night To Remember” by Walter Lord
All the Russian fairy tales and Famous Five of course
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Secret Garden
Down a dark hall
Now I’m gonna have to read it mom
Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, and Tarzan of the Apes.
Harriet the Spy
The Tale of Despereaux is the first book I can remember living but I also enjoy books with short stories and scary stories.
I just found out that my favorite book as a kid DOWN A DARK HALL has been made into a movie to be released August 14th, can’t wait to see it, I hope it’s not a disappointment, books are always better.
Box car children
I read so many books it is hard to come up with just one favorite
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis and Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
The Little Lame Prince
Girl of the Limberlost
I loved the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, and Charlotte’s Web
Omg Ramona!!
@Mre I loved all those books!!
There are others, but Heidi stands out.
The Box Car Children
Beezus and Ramona
Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary, also her books about Henry Huggins and Ribsy. And the LIttle House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And all of the Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. And Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I read all of those books over and over again – through my childhood, teen years, college and adulthood. Still love them.
I forgot King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry.
And of course Charlotte’s Web. And all of the color fairy books (The Red Book of Fairy Tales, The Blue Book of Fairy Tales, etc.)
All Dr. Seuss board books, Especially Marvin k. Mooney , will you please go now!
Speaking of Dr. Seuss…my favorites were two that appear to have been forgotten. The 500 hats of bartholomew cubbins, and bartholomew and the oobleck.
Any horror story! I was a strange kid.
The Ghost of Dibble Hollow
The Whipping Boy
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, Charlotte’s Web.
Little Women
Some of my favorites from my youth … (plus a book mark that I used oh, so many years ago!)