What was your favorite childhood book?
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The Last Unicorn
I called the author once to see if he’d do a book signing at the little bookstore where I worked. He was listed in the phone book. He declined, and he was lovely to talk with.
The Narnia series, Little House series, Ramona and Beezus series, any Judy Blume books. I was a voracious reader then too
Pippi Longstocking when I was 11 yrs. old.
Betsy Tacy
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Harry Potter, American Girl, Junie B Jones, island of the blue dolphin
The Babysitter Club series and anything by Judy Blume
Anything by Jean Craighead George. Little House. Where the Red Fern Grows. Charlotte’s Web. So many…
Ramona, Pippi Longstocking, and Mrs Piggle-Wiggle
Narnia, Mrs Frisbee and the rats of Nimh, A Little Princess, Wrinkle in Time
Charlotte’s Web.
Amanda the snake
Charlotte’s Web
The Secret Garden
Ramona books
The Velveteen Rabbit
Yes!! “And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy–so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.”
Absolutely a favorite if my kids.
@Jade thank you ! That comment made my day
I took a story telling class in college, taught by the incomparable Dr. Arne Nixon. He told us a story about one of his female students who refused to date anyone who, after he read it, didn’t “get it.” I always thought that her test was a smart one.
A Wrinkle in Time and Tuck Everlasting
Homecoming bt Cynthia Vogit
Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers & The Twins at St Claire series
David and the Phoenix
Heidi
The Nancy Drew series of books. Narnia.
Little house on the prairie series
Yes, yes
The Ugly Duckling
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Heidi ,Sathyavansavithri
The Borrowers series
Golden book called the Polky Little Puppy. Elementary school Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables Series’. Catcher in the Rye in high school
Anything by Darren Shan, Harry Potter, anything by Mercedes Lackey, The Chronicles of Narnia.
Judy Blume, but as a little little bit, I loved my Goodnight Moon book!
Depended on my age. Shillouette biographies, The Black Stallion books, Pippi Longstocking series, Wrinkle in Time, and The Secret Garden, that I can remember.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Charlotte’s Web
A Wrinkle in Time
Babysitters club, and fiction books about sick kids. For years I was obsesed with those stories.
read “The Tommyknockers” at 13 so I don’t know if it qualifies
Black Beauty
Little Women, Nancy Drew series, Trixie Belden series.
I loved Trixie Belden!
I loved those books and asked for Trixie Belden books for my birthday and Christmas, til I had them all. My dog is named Trixie.
Trixie Belden was one of my favorites too.
I loved Trixie Belsen and Nancy Drew
Bony Legs
The two princesses of bamarre will always have a place in my heart ❤️
Betsy Tacy, Happy Hollisters, Wind in the Willows series
When I was itty bitty it was The Little Engine That Could as I got a bit older it became Great Expectations
Go Dogs Go is the first book I ever read by myself and ended up being my favorite. Then at 11 it turned to Harry Potter
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Nancy Drew
Misty of Chincoteague
Ooh I forgot about this one
I loved these books too
Bambi by Felix Salten
Heidi
Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe
Pippi Longstocking:)
Charlottes Web, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Little House on the Prairie Series
The Sweet Pickle series, Secret Garden, any choose your own adventure book, Star Wars, I had all of the books and a Shel Silverstein book that I can’t remember the name of but it has the poem Sick in it, Wednesday’s Witch and The Twits as far as I can remember. But then again, I have always read books like I drink water so I am sure there are many more.
Secret Garden!
Another Nancy Drew
Especially the really old ones that were my mothers, back in the 20s
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Boxcar Children, Anne of Green Gables series, Redwall
I loved The Boxcar Children.
I wanted to be them so badly
I was obsessed with the Nancy Drew Files!
And Nancy Drew!
The cat in the hat
& The giving tree
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
Real young..anything Dr. Seuss..a bit oldwr Boxcar Children and Little House on the Praire
The boxcar children
Wait, I loved Narnia too. And Lord of the Rings
I absolutely loved Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby series
Me too!
Anne of Green Gables
My Friend Flicka
When I was really young, Amelia Bedelia
A Horse Called Dragon.
Heidi.
Me too!
Me too!
My Side of the Mountain & the Trixie Belden mysteries.
Loved My Side of the Mountain!
@Elizabeth True confession; I still read it every couple of years even as a grown ass adult! 😀 Still love it.
The Giver
I first read it in college for a children’s lit class. One of my ALL TIME favorite books!
When I found out it was the first of four, I lost my mind! I have them all now 😁😁😁
Betsy Tacy!
I adored Betsy Tacy books!!❤️
Ferdinand
I still have mine.
Me too!
Fair Bay and The Three Little Ponies
The Lost Years of Merlin
The Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Maud Hart Lovelace.
The Lion the witch and the wardrobe
Depends on age. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs at age 5. Heidi and also Little house books at ages 7 and 8. A wrinkle in time at 9. My Sister’s keeper by beverly butler (hist fic about peshtigo fire) at age 10. Izzy, willy-nilly by Cynthia voigt at age 12. . .
Oh and the entire anne of green gables series at age 11. I got obsessed. . . it was a break from the scifi and fantasy I was also reading. I would have started stephen king at this age but my mother discouraged me from it for another 2.5 years.
Pippi Longstocking
Early childhood: Poky Little Puppy….later, Secret Garden
The Giving Tree
The babysitter club books and half magic
Jack and the Beanstalk
Owl babies 🙂
Little Women & Nancy Drew series.
Little Women and Nancy Drew, then anything Piers Anthony or Anne McCaffrey
Love Piers Anthony. I just finished the incarnations of immortality and reserve books 2 through 5 of the Xanth series in the library. I wanna finish reading them all this year
I loved those. The first Split Infinity trilogy is also amazing.
Where the Wild Things Are, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Where the Red Fern Grows, Secret Garden….. I’ve been in love with books for over 50 years!
Trumpet of the Swan
Chasing Redbird
My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Green Grass of Wyoming. Or maybe The Little House on the Prairie books.
Amelia Bededilia when I was small. My favorite no picture book was Matilda.
Dandelion by Don Freeman when I was young, and The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright as an older child. Though it is hard to pick just one…loved to read as a child!
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.
A Wrinkle in Time
Jennifer Murdley’s Toad. One of the few books I was able to read more than once.
Little house, Winnie the pooh
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I forgot about this one!! I loved that book; let me see if I can find it on Amazon
A Wrinkle in Time
Velveteen Rabbit 😍
The Twits – Roald Dahl!
Ramona the Pest. Charlotte’s Web. Babysitters Club series.
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes. It was about a dog. I also enjoyed the Happy Hollisters Mystery Series.
Sam Campbell Living Forest books. Loved animals and they were funny. Great books for kids.
the Berenstain Bears, The cat in the hat by Dr. Seuss and the Grinch who stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss, green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss
Tistou of the green thumbs, by Maurice Druon.
My very first library book in kindergarten was Green Eggs and Ham!
Beauty: the retelling of the story beauty and the beast by robin McKinley
So many…Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters, Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Five Little Peppers, Little House books, All of a Kind Family series, The Shoe series: Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes, etc., Beverly Cleary, Little Women, Pippi Longstocking, The Secret Garden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Little Princess, Heidi, Harriet the Spy, A Wrinkle in Time….I always loved to read!
Five Little Peppers!
also Lois Lenski books….the illustrations were amazing!
Loved the Betsy Tacy books!
The Black Stallion!
Every Walter Farley book in the series was the best.
Princess and the Goblin
Heidi
Bobsey Twins
The Three Investigators!
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
I remember that one! Loved it.
Charlottes web , Nancy Drew series and the little house on the prairie books
Laura Ingles – Little House on the Prarie series
The Silmarillion.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 ❤
Alice in wonderland
The Faraway Tree series, had my fathers copies from when he was a kid.
Island of the Blue Dolphins and A Wrinkle in Time
I’m reading A Wrinkle in Time to my 5 yr old!
Tarzan of the Apes.
I started reading Stephen King in 3rd to 4th grade, until then it was Nancy Drew, and Judy Blume before that. I really liked R.L. Stine and Sweet Valley High series.. oh and Babysitters Club. Gosh I have always been a reader.
Little Women, Heidi, and Cecilia’s Locket.
I loved Heidi!
My Friend Flicka, The Black Stallion, Little Women, Heidi, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the Nancy Drew books, The Yearling, A Wrinkle in Time, The Secret Garden, and all the Little House books.
This! ❤️
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Carrot Seed
Ferdinand the bull
I still love this book.
Boxcar Children
Henner’s Lydia.
When I was little it was Lucky Mrs Ticklefeather.
Uncle Wiggly
When I was very young , it was Uncle Wiggly .
This is like asking which one of my kids is my favorite. I loved Little Women, James and the Giant Peach, Wrinkle in Time and all of the Laura Ingells Wilder books. Don’t ask me to choose
My first favorites were Johnny Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy books (my grandmother read those to me when I was 4 and had the measles). Then it was the Little House books. She gave me the first one for my 8th birthday in July 1953 and then the next one for Christmas and so on until I had the whole set. We read those out loud, too, so I’m sure that’s a big part of why they were special to me.
I forgot about Raggedy Ann and Andy books! I loved them when I was little!
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Wrinkle in Time, BoxCar Children, Little Women, Cricket in Times Square, Dear Mr Henshaw
picture book: Little Campers
Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories
A Wrinkle in Time
Hank the cow dog!!
That was my favorite too!
Nancy Drews
Nancy Drew
Argh, just one?!
The Twits – Roald Dahl
Hank the Cow Dog and Madeline
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls, in two straight lines.
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth, and went to bed…
<3
Sarah Plain & Tall, and My Daniel
The Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
They will ALWAYS be my favorites. ❤️
Captain Underpants or Eloise
The BFG – Roald Dahl
It is hard to pick one, but I loved Nancy Drew!
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink.
Amazing Gracie
By A.E. Cannon
I LOVED Amazing Gracie.
Cross country cat
Charlotte’s Web
The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover
OMGosh!! Mine too!!! I LOVED LOVED reading it to my nieces and nephew… Made me laugh so much!!
The Secret Garden.
No Children, No Pets, Half Magic, The Boxcar Children, and The Five series by Enid Blyton (my mom drove me to used bookstores all over Northern Virginia to find copies).
I liked the Louisa May Alcott books that WEREN’T part of the Little Women sequence–Eight Cousins and A Rose in Bloom.
I loved Betsy’s Little Star! And all the Little House books.
All the folk tales from different countries.
I had a favorite book called Strange Tales from Many Lands.
Hank the Cow dog, Little House on the Prairie series, and Tuck everlasting
The Boxcar Children
Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden series
The giver
Misty of Chincoteaque
Childhood books would be.. Charlie Brown.. I know not really a book but I remember the trips to the library to collect all the ones I could.. so I guess you could call that a Graphic Novel.. lol
The Secret Garden
um… all of them? 😀
Noddy books by Enid Blyton (my maternal grandmother was English and she sent them for birthday and Christmas and just because presents. I think I have about 24 of them 😉 )
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, which has been made into an upcoming movie….I have high hopes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3TeY2wtM
Where the Red Fern Grows. But my daughter is a big fan of the Land of Stories.
Alice in Wonderland and “And Then There Were None”
Eloise, Madeline and Babar
the Little House series
Narnia books! (also E.Nesbit – older generations of “English schoolchildren who find a magic world” like Harry Potter!) Anything by Madeline L’Engle! Frances Hodgson Burnett (Little Princess, Secret Garden etc.)…. I still love rereading many of these.
Me too!
Yes! E. Nesbit! I was wondering if anyone else read those! 5 Children and It, sooooo goood!
Alice in Wonderland
The Little House on the Prairie
Charlotte Web
Dr.Seuess books
The magic faraway tree
My 4th Grade teacher always read a chapter or two to us after lunch and she introduced me to the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley. I still pick one up every now and then and read again!
Trixie Belden
Me too!
Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairytales and every other fairytale book I could find, The Boxcar Children, Black Beauty, Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost
Boxcar Children!
Love love Where The Red Fern Grows
Little Women, Black Beauty, Heidi. Couldn’t pick just one!
The Parent Trap. Read it over, and over, and over…
the new children’s book i’m currently writing.
To kill a mockingbird!!!! All day long!
Black Beauty and Nancy Drew, Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi and many more. I loved biographies too. Little Women!
This one is obscure but it was a favorite after my 3rd grade teacher read this to me in class. It was called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase
All of the Nancy Drew books!
And Harry Potter!! I am only 28. Oh and Nancy drew!!!
I’m not sure whether to admit this or not but it was a Point Fiction book called Final Exam by A. Bates. I read it a bunch of times.
Ella enchanted
Harriet the Spy a children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh in 1964.
The secret world of Og by Pierre Burton.
I disliked reading when I was young, but the novel that brought me back to reading in middle school was called Downriver by Will Hobbs.
Sweet valley twins and sweet valley high lol
Bridge to Terebithia, the Lion the witch and the wardrobe, A wrinkle in time
Watership Down
Horse stories and Anne of green gables along with Alice in wonderland
The Velvet Room.
Miss Nelson is missing
The Dark is Rising (series) by Susan Cooper vies neck and neck with LM Boston’s Green Knowe (series) and Edgar Eager’s Half Magic (series)
Loved the Dark is Rising series!
The Magic Mountain
Half Magic
Cheaper by the Dozen!
Misty of Chinoteague!
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd
https://www.amazon.com/David-Phoenix-Illustrated-Edward-Ormondroyd/dp/1627555846/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Several! The Egypt Game is great! Zilpha Keatley Snyder books highly recommended!
Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates
The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler & Misty of Chincoteague.
The Girl with the Silver Eyes
Bobbsey Twins series, Little House on the Prairie series, Little Women, Heidi, The Pink Motel. Better Homes and Garden Storybook-Favorite Stories and Poems from Children’s Literature.
Heidi
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Alice and the Teeny Weenies (now out of print).
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Dr. Doolittle books by Hugh Lofting
Dory the Little Witch
Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh
Thumbelina lol
Trixie Belden books.
I still have my Trixie Belden books
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Where the Red Fern Grows and The Outsiders
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Yassss
Trumpet of the swan, the little house books, nancy drew, little women and ghost stories
The Giver
Little Women
Charlotte’s Web🕸
Hey, where’d you find that neato web?
Hardy Boys
Betsy, Tacy and Tib series
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Little Women
Go Dog Go
Beauty by Bill Wallace
A Wrinkle in Time trilogy, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Chronicles of Narnia
And of course Anne!
The Little Princess
Reap van winkle
Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle by A.A Milne, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and Corduroy by Don Freeman 🙂 When I got a little older, anything by E.B White, or Roald Dahl, the Nancy Drew books, Black Beauty, Peter Pan, The Little House on the Prairie books, Anne of Green Gables, and Little Women, which is still my favorite book of all time 🙂
Cordoroy! And Pooh! <3!
Matilda, the little house on the prairie series
The Borrowers
A friend has pet ferrets. I feel so disloyal to Arrietty if I play with them!
Giving Tree
Anne of green gables
Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Island of the Blue Dolphin, read it about 100 times and any and all of the Nancy Drew books
Loved that one
Princess Bride, before the movie!
The Magic Faraway Tree, and all others by Enid Blyton!
Charlottes Web
Any Amelia Bedelia books
Love Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, and anything by Gene Stratton Porter… Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost…
Loved Girl of the Limberlost!
There is nothing like it!
The secret garden
The Water Babies …in a beautifully illustrated antique edition …given to me by my grandmother
I used to love reading that at my aunt’s. She probably had the same illustrated book. I remember it was beautiful. We lived in NJ and she lived in Michigan, first thing when we got there I would find that book
Harry Potter
Hungry hungry caterpillar and Harold and the purple crayon
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis and Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones
Misty of Chincoteague
A good one ❤️
The cow jumped over the moon, where the wild things are, all Judy b Jones, magic treehouse books, Winnie the Pooh
UncleSam bedtime stories
I read any and everything I could get my hands on–but there were a few years that The Babysitter’s Club gave me somewhere to go when I had no other retreat. I owe Ann Martin for that bit of paradise. 🙂
No, David!
Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain
So many of these! But also Lois Lenski books, and the All of a Kind Family books.
Little House on the Prairie. The first book I was given to read by myself was Two Plus Two is Four (I was four) and I still have the book. That was a looooong time ago.
Books by Enid Blyton And Astrid Lindgren.
and this …Do Not Disturb: Adventures of M’m and Teddy https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/e0/e6/00e0e6228f892e808d9c7461b89fd333.jpg
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths and Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik series.
Oh, that was my book of Greek Myths too!
It’s one of my top three books of all time.
The rainbow fish
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth @Graham.
A Wrinkle in Time in 6th grade; Amelia Bedelia in 5th grade; Ramona the Pest in 4th grade.
Grimm fairy tales
All the Beverly Cleary books!
All the Nancy Drew books!
Oh Yeah I totally forgot about Nancy Drew, and The Hardy Boys. My Grandmother introduced those to me when I was 5th and 6th grade. I think Ive read almost every one of them.
The Wrinkle in Time trilogy. I read it in 4th grade for the 1st time. And several times again after that. The Indian in the cubard was a favorite as well.
The hobbit and Watership Down
Enid Blyton
The Secret Garden
The Stinky Cheese Man
A Room for Cathy and Little Women
Harriet the Spy, the Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton, and A Wrinkle in Time.
Gulliver’s Travels!
@Jane, so tempted to write “The Baltimore Caticism”. I read that more than any other literature!!! 😇
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The owl and the pussycat
Ramona the Brave
Nancy Drew
The land of OG.
I have been trying to remember the name of that book for years ! Thank you!
@Karen Pierre Berton. I loved it
Nancy Drew, The Farthest Away Mountain, Dealing with Dragons. When I was a very little kid it was Dr. Seuss ABC’s.
Nancy Drew series, Lad A Dog series.
The Babysitters’ Club!
Pippi Longstocking
Charlotte web or the sweet valley series
Harriet the Spy, Hatchet (so good), and My side of the mountain.
Malory towers.
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret
Absolutely.
Alice in Wonderland
Judy Bolton and Nancy Drew mysteries
Alice in Wonderland and all Nancy Drew
Are You My Mother? Dr Seuss
Flowers for Algernon
Anderson and Grimm Fairytales, my Grandparents gave me the two books. I read them over and over.
The Boxcar Children
আরব্য রজনী আর গোপাল ভারের গল্পের বই।
Now you’ve got me interested. These were books about knights or the night? And the go-load story is about what? I bet we’re losing something in the translation. I hope what I am asking makes sense to you when translated.
Black Beauty, Nancy Drew, Oliver Twist
The foot book by dr seuse
Jane Eyre…3rd grade and every year thereafter.
The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The giving tree – silver stien ….. Oh the people u will see (dont rememer the author)
I loved Tamora pierce. Especially the Alanna series.
I had two, The Barbapapa series, and Bedtime for Frances 🙂
I swear I _was_ Frances!
Oh The Places You’ll Go and anything by Roald Dahl!
There’s a Monster at the End of this Book.
Cinderella
Big Red, Black Beauty, Little Women, Little Men things like that
Mathilda
‘Stranger from the Depths’ by Gerry Turner. Also one of my first solid pieces of science fiction.
So many hard to choose but I got The Snow a Queen and Other stories for my 8th birthday and I still have it. I have read it to students.
Amar chitrakatha
What was this story about? I’m curious 🤷🏻♀️
Stories about Indian mythology.
@अन्क़ा
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Street Rod by Henry Gregor Felsen.
A Tree Goes In Brooklyn. Also Nancy Drew series
Tales of fourth grade nothing- Judy Blume.. and Anne of Green Gables
Winnie the Pooh and The Jungle Book
The Nancy Drew series.
I loved reading these! In elementary school I always looked forward to library day so I could get a new one!!
“The Bottle Imp” by Robert Louis Stevenson! Omg … my mom read it to me a zillion times till I could finally read it myself. Loved it.
The Princess Diaries
Charlotte’s Web
Hard to pick just one. I remember my mom reading me over and over the teeny tiny lady when I was very young though.
I remember you reading the “Tiny Teeny Lady” to me! Thanks for being a terrific big sister! ❤️🙏🏼🌺
Nancy drew books
In ascending age:
All things “Pooh”
Wind in the Willows
Just So Stories
The Blue Fairy Book (+ others in series)
Pippi Longstocking
The Bobbsey Twins series
Nancy Drew series
(And so many others that I feel a sense of betrayal in not naming!)
So many! James & the Giant Peach and The Trumpet of the Swan probably tie for 1st, though.
Harriet the Spy
Little Women and Charlotte’s Web.
OMG – Charlotte’s Web. Yeah. Great book
Tricked Belden Series
Trixie?
Got me yes Trixie.
Then again -. . . biographies written for youth caught my attention early: Bios of Helen Keller, of Thomas Paine, and of Henri Christophe, the Haitian revolutionary – those were good stuff! True story. Still love biographies.
Miss Nelson is Missing
Nancy Drew books and I loved Patrick Dennis, too.
This one. It was old when i discovered it as a child and i still love it. Bronson was trained as a wildlife illustrator but he had the soul of a cartoonist.
Black Beauty and Little Women
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I had my own little house via my grandparents’ homestead on the North Dakota prairie with no running water. I never experienced the blizzards of winter but can easily imagine their life. As an adult have visited many of the Ingalls home sites.
Grover for younger age, Black Beauty and Black Stallion for mid-age.
I love the Grover book! My mom read it to me when I was a kid; I read it to my step-kids when they were small. Any time I see them for sale, I snatch up every one to give as gifts.
I’ve not seen them in years! But just last Christmas, I saw them selling like hot cakes in Kohl’s. I should have bought a few, instead I got none (too focused on Xmas shopping/needs). LOL Will have to keep looking.
I’m glad I kept one for myself, I haven’t seen them in years.
Black Beauty
The Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Also, Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott
Before these, when I was younger: Flicka, Ricka and Dicka; B is for Betsy; Betsy-Tacy series; the Bobbsey Twins; Cherry Ames series; Little Maida series. Oh, si many . . .
Where the Wild Thing Are
Heidi
nancy drew, yellow book series and where the sidewalk ends
The Happy Hollisters series.
I have all but 2 of the Happy Hollister books in my collection!
My Mom gave all of mine to a younger cousin but about 20 years ago I started recollecting them and have the entire series with dust jackets.
My big book of Bible Stories.
Chronicles of Narnia….so many others!
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Virginia Dare
Black Stallion
Big Red
Little House series…
Even as a kid I couldn’t pick just one.
I don’t know how many times I read Virginia Dare
The Little Train That Could, Nancy Drew Mysteries, Tom Sawyer, Fury, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Yearling, The Hardy Boys, Little Women, all the Dr. Seuss books, and many more.
Ah! The Yearling! Nancy Drew!
Just too many to name!!
Sweet Valley Twins/ Sweet Valley High
Yes! Me too!
Archie , Danielle Steel , Sidney Sheldon ❤
R.L. Stine Fear Street books and The Boxcar Children
Charlottes Web— hands down. Some pig.
Treasure Island
My bff’s mom was my grammar school librarian. When I was a young adult, she sent me a book that she was retiring because she saw that I had checked it out probably a half dozen times when I was a kid. It’s called “The Ghost of Garina Street.” It must have been my favorite book!
What a lovely thing to do!
Little Train That Could, Black Beauty, Charlotte’s Web, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Sherlock Holmes (series), Nancy Drew, Edgar Allan Poe, adapted mythology for the young reader…loved the mysteries and still do.
Eloise
Harriet the Spy, Trixie Belden, all the Beverly Cleary books.
The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Pippi Longstocking, Dr. Doolittle, Mary Poppins and on and on and on. Anything with print and a story,!
Jack and the beanstalk
Famous Five…Enid Blyton ..have read all the novels twice…
Love you forever
When I was very small, it was The Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown (a Little Golden Book), and I still love it! (“And no one was alone anymore.”). When I was a bit older, it was Charlotte’s Web. But my all-time favorite kids book is “The Witch Family” by Eleanor Estes. It is a little-known book that was absolutely magical to me! And yes, I still love it today. I truly think they should reprint and re-market it!!!
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, The Five Little Peppers, The Four-Story Mistake, The Borrowers
The Talking Eggs
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Call of The Wild
Little Women
The lion and the jewel….Wole Soyinka
Hardy boys, chip Hilton series, watership down, the lion the witch and the wardrobe.
Little house on the Prairie.
Little red riding hood ♥
Heidi, Black Beauty, Bobsey Twins series, Lion, Witch and Wardrobe series
Enid Blyton series 😊
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Heidi, magic faraway tree, erm there’s loads 😀
Half Magic
Doctor Dolittle Series by Hugh Lofting. The movies never even came close to giving those stories justice. I always talk with my animals. And they talk back!
The Story about Ping. It was a lovely book about a Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River!
The Napping House
Five minutes peace.
I like Me! (Nancy Carlson is a treasure…please check her out)
The Strange Bride by Dr. Grace Ogot. I was only 12 years old when I first read it. My mother was a book addict or guru if you may and so I guess she passed on the mantle to her son. Nyawir the daughter of Opolo defies the norms and goes ahead to plant maize before her grandmother wakes up at dawn to do the same as is the tradition among the Luo of Kenya. He beauty according to Dr. Ogot sweeps all men off their feet. Towards the end, tragedy looms and guess what? The chief’s son, Owiny falls in love with her and they are all banished.
Heidi
The Lio, the Witch and the Wardrobe – still Is!
Danny the Champion of the World, Ronald Dahl