What was your favorite childhood book??? I love encyclopedia brown books. Does anyone remember those book?
What was your favorite childhood book??? I love encyclopedia brown books. Does anyone remember those book?
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Alice in Wonderland maybe; or The Secret Garden,
I loved Encyclopedia Brown!
Charlotte’s Web & Ramona and Beezus
I read those! Loved Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume.
But my favorites were All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor and Little House on the Prairie.
loved all of those
Ellen Tibbits by Beverly Cleary
Winnie the Pooh boxed set
I have these too!
The wayside school books. So fun and strange. Also choose your own adventure.
i loooooved these books too!!!! Ahhhh memories ♥️
When I was much younger I liked Amelia bedelia..
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
i was such a Judy Blume fan!!! I STILL have my copy of Are you there God!
I liked the Redwall books, by Brian Jacques. I also read a lot of Roald Dahl.
Roald Dahl was one of my favs too!!! I loved the BFG when I was little ❤️
I loved the Redwall Books… they really got me into reading!
i don’t think I’ve ever heard of them but I have a niece so I’m trying to get ideas of books to get her. Hence the post ?. Hehehehehe
Encyclopedias were the only way to research and write book reports when I was a young girl. We’re talking the ’70’s. My favorite childhood book series was the Little House on the Prairie.
Berenstain bears!
i still have a few of my books!!! ?
Beverly Cleary books were my fave!
Beverly Cleary books!!!
Black Beauty and The Little Princess
We had a book called Cacky the Cactus! Wish I could find one now.
With each age I turned I loved different authors, I loved the Bobsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope, then of course, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume. Also loved the All of a Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor as well as Betsy, Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace. But I also had a favorite book by Betty Brock called No Flying in the House.
Anything from Judy Blume ?,
Island of the blue dolphins . S.E. Hinton
island of the blue dolphin!!!! How could I’ve forgotten about that book??? That one was great from what I remember!!!
@Melissa I’ve read it so many times! beautiful book.
it was ❤️ I remember reading it a lot. I might even still have a copy of it somewhere in my library….hmmm I should look for it ???
Little House on the Prairie series , Charlotte’s Web, Judy Blume books.
Ramona, The All-of-A-Kind Family, Judy Blume books, Winnie the Pooh. Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Little House on the Prairie.
White Boots. The Gill Books.
Heidi
Nancy Drew
Little Women, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie novels
Along with Heidi, I liked all the Signature books History of great men and women. I checked them all out at the library.
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie
The Black Stallion, Dr. Dolittle, The Wizard of Oz, Nancy Drew
The Black Stallion series
Bobbsey Twins, Five Little Peppers and Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew, An Old-Fashioned Girl
S E Hinton books The outsiders, Tex,That was then this is now.
The Great Brain!
The Giving Tree, all Shel Silverstein poetry collections, Amelia Bedelia, The Secret Garden
How could I forget Amelia Bedelia? Loved her.
Love Shel Silverstein
i just read the giving tree the other day ♥️♥️♥️
Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Beverly Cleary, and when I was a little older, Agatha Christie books and Little Women.
The Great Brain Series; Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare; Mandy by Julie Andrews; Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew; Judy Blume, especially the Fudge books; the Ramona books…it’s like trying to pick a favorite child!
Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, The Happy Hollisters.
I loved Encyclopedia Brown!! Also Harriet the Spy!
Little women
Little Witch and The Happy Hollisters
Little Woman , A Garland for Girls and anything else Louisa May Alcott
Beverly Cleary books and Trixie Beldon mysteries
Little Women, The Cherry Ames series, and another favorite was a real 3 hankie book called Beautiful Joe about a mistreated dog. OMG I cried til I had no tears left. Another book I loved was called Nobody’s Girl about a french orphan. I think I must have cried my way through childhood.
Tough to choose a very favorite, but it has to be the Betsy – Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace.
The original Box Car Children
Box Car Children and the Redwall series by Brian Jaques (?)
Omg … I loved Encyclopedia Brown ❤️❤️
EB books were great. Loved them. Also ready Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. All the Beezus and Ramona books and Freckle Juice and How to Eat Fried Worms. Also, Sweet Valley High books. Spent so many summers at the library when I was a kid.
Heidi, Beverly Cleary books, Five Little Peppers books, Little Women and the sequels, the Betsy/Tacy books.
Charlottes Web! The Grapes of Wrath!
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ❤
Oh, I loved Encyclopedia Brown!!!
Little House books! Still reread them today,!
Charlotte’s Web and Black Beauty
@Laura yes! My two favorites as a child!
A tree grows in Brooklyn
i loooooove this book!!!!!
Anne of Green Gables
Trixie Belden. Read the first three that my mom had from her growing up years. Then I bought or was gifted the next 15!
Little House on the Prairie series
Lady and the Tramp
My favorite kids book was “The Secret Garden,” but I definitely remember Encyclopedia Brown.
The Secret Garden, A little Princess, Trixie Belden series
Little women and joes boys.
Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High – which quickly turned to all things Fear Street and Christopher Pike.
Sweet Valley High!!!!! I loved that series!!! And the babysitters club. Read those together!!!
@Melissa yep, I did also. I read a lot less Sweet Valley than BSC though. I was a huge BSC fan.
I loved boxcar children! Haven’t thought of that in years!!
Me too
I liked Mrs Piggle Wiggle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Trixie Belden books
Oh those too!! I still have mine!
Me, too! I loved reading them with my daughter.
The Witch Family
Caddie Woodland. Tarzan, Anne of Green gables.
Charlotte’s Web
Yes!!! I loved Encyclopedia Brown!
Enid Blyton hands down ?
The Secret Garden.
I loved The Boxcar Children.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew.
The Bobsy Twins. ?♀️. Can’t remember how to spell it.
@Donna Bobbsey Twins…
Little women. Brilliant
National Velvet
The Boxcar Children
The Princess and the Pea
I forgot about Caddie Woodlawn! And The Witcher Family!
Charlotte’s Web
Anne of Green Gables, Nancy Drew, Little Women…I can’t choose!
Nancy Drew. Received for birthday and could of cried. Best birthday ever
I loved them too. I loved the Ramona Quimby books and Babysitter’s Club. I loved the Kobie Roberts series by Candace Ransom. I also loved The Snow, The Fog, and The Fire by Caroline B. Cooney.
you know they’re turning the babysitters club into a series on Netflix!!!! Eeekkk
@Melissa I know!!!
Very fond memories of the Nancy Drew books. My aunt started me on them when I was young and would surprise me with a new one every couple of weeks
I love how you can tell the difference in ages between the answers. Books that I read as a child, books that I read to my children and books that my grandchildren read.
Right???? I’m seeing a lot of books I read at different points of my childhood and it’s bring back a lot of happy memories ❤️❤️❤️
That’s such a good point… My mom made me feel bad about my book choices but times change
Ramona Quimby
Where the wild things are
Litttle House on the Prairie. Sideways Stories From Wayside School and Night of the Twisters.
My kids liked Ishie and Hatchet. And I read them the Little House series and Caddie Woodland .
Bunicula series
i loooooved this series!!!
My 9 yr old son loves it also.
Anything Dr. Seuss!
i started collecting the books for my niece!!! She loves them!!!
The Cat Who Went to Heaven.
Little House on the Prarie
Rosamond du Jardin books as a young teenager, and The Bobbsey Twins books when I was younger
Madeline
I remember loving “the kitten twins”. I still remember “two little kittens with eyes of blue, one was twinkle and one was Boo” ??
Anne of Green Gables
Heidi
The Boxcar Children, The Babysitter’s Club, The Narnia series.
you know they’re turning the babysitters club into a series on Netflix!!! Watch for it!
Yes. I used to watch the Canadian version years ago.
me too ? such a fun show!
OMG!!! I LOVED Encyclopedia Brown! I actually just bought a boxed set of his books to re-read with kids I tutor. ???
Little Black a pony
Where the Red Fern Grows
Bobbsey Twins, Anne of Green Gables, Narnia series, Little Women, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome!
Little Women. The Jungle Book. Grimms Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen stories
Wizard of Oz books.
Nancy Drew
Anne of Green Gables.
The Whirligig House, and I’d love to find a copy!
Pipi Longstalking, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Stuart Little!!
Yes, and it was fun to read as a kid. There was another author I read and I thought I had her name correct but I have not been able to locate her books. They were about children living in different life situations. One was about a girl whose family were migrant strawberry workers, a girl who lived in Florida and was maybe a member of the Seminole nation. Her name was Lois Lowery or Louise Lowery. I am not sure.
Lois Lowry. I forgot about her. I loved Number the Stars when I was young.
@Erin thank you!
You’re welcome
Where the wild things are. I was obsessed. Still over of my favs. I got the novel when the movie came out. Enjoyed that too. I don’t have the novel anymore. As I gave it to a friend.
i didn’t know there was a novel. I just thought there was the kid book. I’ll have to check it out!
@Melissa yeah the edition I had was a pinkish in color hardcover. I can’t remember who the author is. It’s been 7+ years since I gave it to a friend.
I got it!!!!
Black Beauty – and its still one of my favorite books.
I loved Encyclopedia Brown too! <3
I also loved Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.
Ravena
Loved Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. I also loved the Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans
Black Beauty.
Oh I loved Encyclopedia Brown!!! I read every one I could get my hands on. As an adult, I default to mysteries in series: The Cat Who… The In Death series by JD Robb… Robert Parker books with Spencer… the Alphabet books by Grafton… great memory! 🙂
Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree, and the original Amelia Jane, The Golliwog’s and Mr Pink Whistle
I read Cherry Ames, the Bobbsey Twins Nancy Drew and series mysteries when I got older. Now i like stand alone ones like Lisa Jewel and Lianne Moriarty.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe because my Nan used to read it to me and The Monster at the End of This Book because it was so interactive and fun!!