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.
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.”
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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).
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
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 😉 )
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.
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!
Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairytales and every other fairytale book I could find, The Boxcar Children, Black Beauty, Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost
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.
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 🙂
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
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. 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 . . .
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
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 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.
I have never read the secret garden (I’m 34y) but decided I need a audiobook for when I’m walking and ironing and I chose the secret garden! She has just found the key and so far so good!
I love this question thank you for asking. My daughter was born December 5 2017 and I have already started buying her books that I enjoyed when I was a little girl and reading to her. I love reading and I hope that she will inherit my love for books. Reading others responses to this question has been wonderful, they have reminded me of the books that I used to love but have forgotten about. One of my favorite books was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. He was one of my favorite authors.
Did anyone read Arthur Ransome? Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, etc.?Any people from England or with parents from England?
My son is reading it at the moment. When I read it with my dad as a child he explained that the amount of freedom was the same as in his childhood. He would go off camping with friends etc. But didn’t have a boat. Childhood has changed here in the UK as well as the rest of the world from how it was when this book was written.
Amy Edwards showing my age now, but I too had a wonderfully free childhood, during school holidays a group of us would spend hours wandering around the village, each other’s houses and surrounding fields, parklands and streams with the proviso we were home at teatime. Most of the time our parents would have no idea where we were!
Then Agatha Christie started those in junior high. A wrinkle in time. Dad read the comics to me, how I learned to read, Andy cap, Brenda star, mandrake the magician. Lil Abner
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (currently re-reading) and Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. My youngest daughter currently is reading it for school and she has fallen in love with Anne as much as I have. We discussed favorite lines and her personality and the characters of the book (it was part of her assignment).
Depends which bit of my childhood. I think the first books I really loved were the Beatrix Potter books, Tailor of Gloucester and Tale of Samuel Whiskers were my favourites. Then for several years I had an absolute passion for the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, read them over and over again (except the last one which I didn’t like that much). The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge was a favourite from about nine. Then when I was ten I remember reading A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, which I absolutely adored. And when I was ten I also discovered the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge, which I thought were absolutely hilarious (I still think they are pretty funny). I think I was eleven when I first read Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster, which enchanted me, and also about that time I read Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome for the first time, such a funny book and still my favourite.
The Famous Five and the Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton. As I got a little older, say 12 or 13, I became hooked on Agatha Christies’ Poirot. I remember being very interested in him.
L.O.V.E. that series! Have you ever read Pioneer Girl? It came out in 2014 and it is an pretty much an anotated autobiography that Laura tried to have published but it was declined so she wrote the kinda fiction, kinda not Little house series. Her daughter helped her with editing Pioneer Girl and it was finally published…in 2014!
You’re asking me to pick ONE? Okay I’ll roll back to when I was six and say “How to be a Grouch.” It was a Sesame Street book with Oscar teaching people how to be a grouch and it was truly delightful. (Either that, or books on dinosaurs. I was kinda obsessed)
I loved “There is a Monster at the End of This Book”. The monster turned out to be Grover the monster. I get the dinosaur thing too. I wanted to be a paleontologist until my mom crushed my dreams by telling me that there is no money in that and to strive for something that will pay well when I grew up. Meh.
Little Women. I think I read it every year. I felt like I was Jo. And I saw my younger sister as Beth: the peace maker…peace keeper. Jo the protecting older sister. My storyline: my sister died of skin cancer at age 18…I took care of her through to the end. Ya…Little Women ! Great book in many ways, on many levels.
Different books at different ages, but the ones I remember reading the most are the Nancy Drew series. As a younger reader there was a huge Christmas hardcover book that I read year round and loved and it had a series of different authors and short stories and fables. (Wish I could find a copy of that one.)
My son had to read a book of poetry in order to get a rank in Cub Scouts. He nearly had a breakdown saying that poetry was stupid and boring. I told him to read this one. He suddenly liked poetry.
My elderly grandaunt and granduncle always gave my sister and I a book for Christmas and she gave me Heidi one year. I have read it so many times I lost count. Now I treasure it not just for the story but for the inscription that my grandaunt wrote on the flyleaf. They have both passed away but just seeing the cover of the book on my bookcase brings back a lot of wonderful memories.
The Lorax, Where the Wild things Are, I loved Shell Silverstein. But now that I’m teaching four year olds my favorites to read to them are Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon, The Book With No Pictures, and I Wish You More.
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes was my favorite childhood book. My mother used to read it to me to make me feel better about my name I thought was so unusually long due to my huge handwriting I could never fit it on the lines ? When I got older and could read to myself I was a Junie B Jones fanatic! I loved Nancy Drew stories as well. And anything by Roald Dahl
You are considerably younger than I am. I remember when I managed a children’s book store (small independent) and Chrysanthemum came out – LOVED it – sold so many because I was so excited about it.
Apparently At a very young age I made my mom read, The Pokey Little Puppy, over and over. As a middle school kid The Giver was a nook that stuck with me. I read it again as an adult and it definitely holds up.
Misty of (that island I can’t spell) then the Cherry Ames series. I don’t ride horses but I’ve been an RN for nearly 50 years so Cherry Ames had the most influence. Unfortunately, the capes were gone before I was official.
Misty of Chingoteague!! When I was in college I needed to get away for a bit and I went there!!! Loved it. Very small town then, probably overcrowded with waterfront condos now. I hope not. As I wandered around, I came upon a cemetery where Misty the horse is buried among her human family – well that is what the headstone said.
When I was very young, I liked Frosty the Snowman bc I lived in Texas and we never got snow. When I was older, The Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High.
@Karin The Vermont Country Store sells them — reproductions of a set of them. You can probably get them via their website. They carry many ‘old favorites’ of all kinds — cosmetics, perfume, candy.
Laura Ingalls ‘s series Little House… My grandmother offered me every single volume on my birthdays and/or for Christmas… A double source of emotion when I think of her
I remember reading a book about a family called Maitland who owned a hotel. The son befriended a couple, the husband was an invalid. They turned out to be the baddies who were counterfeiters. Can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. I also read books about a group of friends who ride ponies. Again a mystery I would like to solve and revisit.
Google Books can be a good way to find books. If you remember some key terms and phrases, just put ’em into Google Books, and you might end up finding it! 🙂
When I was very young, it was The Boxcar Children. Then A Wrinkle in Time, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace
I might have thought that was a good book when I was a child (although for sure it hadn’t been written yet!), but reading it to my children, as an adult, I just thought it was sad. I mean, from the tree’s point of view, you can say that the tree had every right to give and give and give, but from the taker’s standpoint, isn’t that us (and I am speaking of Americans, as an American) at our worst? That we take and take and take? And what does it say about us, that we are willing to do so? I mean, I know I am being literal here, and should not be knocking your childhood favorite… But especially seeing what is happening today, I’m not sure I’d want to be giving my child that message. Please, by all means, push back! I’d like to be set straight on this issue (and maybe, perhaps, grow a sense of humor???)
When reading the book, we do feel sad for the tree. And perhaps that is a good learning moment. That we can’t keep taking and taking. It’s not right. I remember feeling sad for the tree as a child. So, what message are we giving children? Maybe it depends on how we interpret it and talk about it to them.
I don’t remember how I felt reading this as a child but it’s been my favorite for as long as I can remember. As an adult and parent, I view the trees feeling and actions as those of a “parent.” I would give anything for my child, including all my “leaves, apples, branches and trunk” just to make my child happy and that’s what the tree does too, even in the end.
Did anyone read The Happy Holisters? We had the whole set. Once a month the mailman would deliver the newest one. My Mom would read them to us..then we started taking turns…fun memories. I LOVE to read!❤❤❤
I loved the Happy Hollisters. I still have a few that I found at a used bookstore. Great stories. Loved them and the Boxcar Children were similar – resourceful kids, solving mysteries. ❤️
I got the book as a Christmas gift from my third grade teacher. My first “big book”. I remembered it was challenging, and a little spooky, and fantastical. I just loved it.
The Valley of Color Days. An oldie I found at my Grandmother’s house in Utica, NY. It was my mom’s favorite at the same age, around 8, I think. Amazing illustrations. First book I read on my own and I still have it.
Ballet in the Barn, by Regina J. Woody (I was going to become a prima ballerina) and Tomboy Row by Ruth langland Holberg, (when I felt my inner tomboy come out). I read both in the 5th grade, but there are so many others.
I read Terry Brooks as a teenager. My brother @Steve got me started and then I shared with my son @Adamwhen he was a young teen. 40 years later and I’m still reading his novels.
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
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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
Danny the Champion of the World, Ronald Dahl
Close call but Matilda is mine, though adore Danny too! Such a beautiful book
Little Women
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. The Secret Garden.
Matilda, Pippi Longstocking, Coraline and Connie.
A Little Princess and Secret Garden
I have never read the secret garden (I’m 34y) but decided I need a audiobook for when I’m walking and ironing and I chose the secret garden! She has just found the key and so far so good!
Goldilocks and the 3 bears?
All of a kind family
Secret World of Og
The Forgotten Door
Little Britches series by Ralph Moody
Wrinkle in Time
Oh Man I loved the Forgotten Door! 🙂
May I ask about your last name? Mine is from England. Where is Lillya from?
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickson
The original unabridged version? That is some heavy reading!
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Chicken licken
I had a big fat book of not-very-well-known fairy tales. I don’t remember the title.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales? I had that one and it was big and fat.
Nope, not that.
Little Women
Little House on the Prairie series
Polianna
the Hobbit and my first was about asgard. A kids version of old norse stories.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and Goodnight Moon
Harry Potter and Percy Jackson but I lost my percy book
I love this question thank you for asking. My daughter was born December 5 2017 and I have already started buying her books that I enjoyed when I was a little girl and reading to her. I love reading and I hope that she will inherit my love for books. Reading others responses to this question has been wonderful, they have reminded me of the books that I used to love but have forgotten about. One of my favorite books was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. He was one of my favorite authors.
Fairy tale… The Princess and the Pea by H C Anderson.
Oh, also Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pippy Long Stockings
Where the Red Fern Grows!
Cinderella
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little
Matida by Roald Dahl 🙂
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George’s marvellous medicine! I could never get enough of it when I was a child, I used to read it to my toys ?
The Silver Crown by Robert OBrien
The magic faraway tree.by Enid blyton
Anything my father read to me
Chanda Mama
Nancy Drew series!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Magic Faraway Tree
Did anyone read Arthur Ransome? Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, etc.?Any people from England or with parents from England?
I loved swallows and amazons, but sad to say life in England isn’t like that, although I guess for some it used to be
My son is reading it at the moment. When I read it with my dad as a child he explained that the amount of freedom was the same as in his childhood. He would go off camping with friends etc. But didn’t have a boat.
Childhood has changed here in the UK as well as the rest of the world from how it was when this book was written.
Amy Edwards showing my age now, but I too had a wonderfully free childhood, during school holidays a group of us would spend hours wandering around the village, each other’s houses and surrounding fields, parklands and streams with the proviso we were home at teatime. Most of the time our parents would have no idea where we were!
In English, Aesop’s fairy tales. I searched for Any Egypt/ Greek mythology. In Spanish Puss and Boots
Then Agatha Christie started those in junior high. A wrinkle in time. Dad read the comics to me, how I learned to read, Andy cap, Brenda star, mandrake the magician. Lil Abner
The Secret Garden!
So many, but The magic faraway tree, started my love of reading books to myself, igniting imagination as you read.
So many! In retrospect, the one that probably impacted me most was Elidor
Black Beauty, Alice in Wonderland and The Magic Faraway Tree ?
The Secret Garden..
Secret Garden
Little House on the Prarie.
Under the Mountain
Neverending Story by Michael Ende (movie does not come close)
Mad bad badger xx
H.C. Andersen’s books…
Panchtantra
Malory Towers
The Little Prince
The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collody
Matilda
The Tale of Desperaux and the Eragon series. My even younger self also loved the Magic Treehouse Series
Polyanna
Sherlock Holmes
The house at pooh corner
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (currently re-reading) and Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. My youngest daughter currently is reading it for school and she has fallen in love with Anne as much as I have. We discussed favorite lines and her personality and the characters of the book (it was part of her assignment).
Enid Blyton books ?
My primary school years were immersed in Secret 7, Famous 5 and Malory Towers. They always seem to have so much fun!!??
Yes, their adventures were my adventures too ?
Me Too!!! Well, Famous Five and Secret Seven at least.
20000 leagues under the sea,Oliver Twist,Jane Eyre
Gulliver travel
Treasure Island
Heidi
Me too!
Depends which bit of my childhood. I think the first books I really loved were the Beatrix Potter books, Tailor of Gloucester and Tale of Samuel Whiskers were my favourites. Then for several years I had an absolute passion for the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, read them over and over again (except the last one which I didn’t like that much). The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge was a favourite from about nine. Then when I was ten I remember reading A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, which I absolutely adored. And when I was ten I also discovered the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge, which I thought were absolutely hilarious (I still think they are pretty funny). I think I was eleven when I first read Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster, which enchanted me, and also about that time I read Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome for the first time, such a funny book and still my favourite.
The Famous Five and the Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton. As I got a little older, say 12 or 13, I became hooked on Agatha Christies’ Poirot. I remember being very interested in him.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Harriet the Spy
Little Red Hen
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski is the first I remember. A little later I devoured (and owned every one of) the Nancy Drew series.
I ate up the Nancy Drew series too. Then I found my dad’s old Hardy Boys books in the attic and ate them up too!
I loved all the Lois Lenski books as well…the illustrations were amazing!
All of the Black Stallion books, devoured them.
Yeeeesssssssss!
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry.
Little Women and Little Men
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
L.O.V.E. that series! Have you ever read Pioneer Girl? It came out in 2014 and it is an pretty much an anotated autobiography that Laura tried to have published but it was declined so she wrote the kinda fiction, kinda not Little house series. Her daughter helped her with editing Pioneer Girl and it was finally published…in 2014!
I will check that out.
Winnie the Pooh and The Secret Garden
Dr. Doolittle.
Harriet the Spy. I also read the Best Christmas Pagaent Ever several times.
Black Beauty
I remember the emotional roller coaster that the book took me on when I read that when I was nine. Amazing book!
Wrinkle in Time
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Boxcar Children (original)
Lederstrumpf, die 3 Musketiere und später Enterprise
You’re asking me to pick ONE? Okay I’ll roll back to when I was six and say “How to be a Grouch.” It was a Sesame Street book with Oscar teaching people how to be a grouch and it was truly delightful. (Either that, or books on dinosaurs. I was kinda obsessed)
I loved “There is a Monster at the End of This Book”. The monster turned out to be Grover the monster. I get the dinosaur thing too. I wanted to be a paleontologist until my mom crushed my dreams by telling me that there is no money in that and to strive for something that will pay well when I grew up. Meh.
@Amy My dad read The Monster at the End of the Book to me a LOT. VERY fond memories of that book, too.
Little Women. I think I read it every year. I felt like I was Jo. And I saw my younger sister as Beth: the peace maker…peace keeper. Jo the protecting older sister. My storyline: my sister died of skin cancer at age 18…I took care of her through to the end.
Ya…Little Women ! Great book in many ways, on many levels.
A little princess
What Katy did
The Veleteeen Rabbit. Still makes me cry.
That’s a powerful story!
It still makes me cry too.
Different books at different ages, but the ones I remember reading the most are the Nancy Drew series. As a younger reader there was a huge Christmas hardcover book that I read year round and loved and it had a series of different authors and short stories and fables. (Wish I could find a copy of that one.)
little women, winnie the pooh, nancy drew…too many more to pick just one
Instead of Three Wishes- Megan Whalen Turner, Taash and the Jesters- Ellen Kindt McKenzie, the Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More- Roald Dahl
The Moomins
Island of the blue dolphins
We read that in school when I was in 5th grade. Loved it.
The old man and the sea
I have to emotionally get my self ready if I am going to read some Hemingway. Steinbeck too.
There’s nothing in literature if you don’t connect it with emotions and life.. they walk on the same path trailing behind @Amy
Where the sidewalk ends!
My son had to read a book of poetry in order to get a rank in Cub Scouts. He nearly had a breakdown saying that poetry was stupid and boring. I told him to read this one. He suddenly liked poetry.
Charlotte’s Web!!
all …
Heidi
My elderly grandaunt and granduncle always gave my sister and I a book for Christmas and she gave me Heidi one year. I have read it so many times I lost count. Now I treasure it not just for the story but for the inscription that my grandaunt wrote on the flyleaf. They have both passed away but just seeing the cover of the book on my bookcase brings back a lot of wonderful memories.
The Lorax, Where the Wild things Are, I loved Shell Silverstein. But now that I’m teaching four year olds my favorites to read to them are Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon, The Book With No Pictures, and I Wish You More.
The Lorax should be required reading!
Charlotte ‘s Web
“My Side of the Mountain” Jean George and “Thursday’s Child” Noel Streatfeild.
Loved “My Side of the Mountain”
Peter Pan
Loved it. Plus, my sister’s name is Wendy.
Little House on the Prairie!
Black Beauty!
Matilda, Dahl
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes was my favorite childhood book. My mother used to read it to me to make me feel better about my name I thought was so unusually long due to my huge handwriting I could never fit it on the lines ? When I got older and could read to myself I was a Junie B Jones fanatic! I loved Nancy Drew stories as well. And anything by Roald Dahl
You are considerably younger than I am. I remember when I managed a children’s book store (small independent) and Chrysanthemum came out – LOVED it – sold so many because I was so excited about it.
The Little House books – Laura Ingalls Wilder
The island of adventure Enid blyton
Maida’s Little Shop
Walk Two Moons
Little Women
The Velveteen Rabbit!!!! Little Women and when I was a bit older I became obsessed with Sherlock Holmes.
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
Les miserables Victor Ugo
Apparently At a very young age I made my mom read, The Pokey Little Puppy, over and over. As a middle school kid The Giver was a nook that stuck with me. I read it again as an adult and it definitely holds up.
Anne of green gables or any Enid Blyton
James and the Giant Peach.
Olympus Legends… ah, Hercules!
Beverly Cleary (Ramona series of books)
Farmer boy
The wolves of Willougby Chase – Joan Aiken Hodge
Little House on the Prairie series and The Babysitter’s Club Series
Yes, The Babysitters Club!
Great expectations
All Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames books. Wuthering Heights, anything Victorian
My absolute favorite was Snow White and Rose Red. I even introduced it to my daughter and im now slowing bringing it back out for my grandaughters
Esperanza Rising
Mary Poppins.
Little house and emily of new moon
Heidi
Black Beauty
Little Women
Little Women.
How young? The Faraway Tree, the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Winnie the Pooh.
The Chronicles of Narnia
Nancy Drew series
Little Women and the Anne of Green Gables books.
Mister Paint Pig
My grandkids love that.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Charlotte’s Web by EB White
The Wizard of Oz
The outsiders
SE Hinton! Loved all those books!
All the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Loved them.
I was named after her.
All the Trixie Belden books
Also my favorite. I’m so excited to see someone else who has read those!
Me too!! I read them all at least 20 times
Me too! And Donna Parker.
I thought I was the only one! I get mine out and re-read them every once in a while.
Who Walks the Attic, The Velvet Room, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Nancy Drew, The Giver
Bedtime for Frances. 😀
Little Women. 🙂
Heidi.
Oh. Heidi! This is such a good book for little children!
Great book. I just wanted to go live in the mountains when I read it
@Krystal Heidi’s the reason I tried goat cheese!
The House on Hackmans Hill. Just read it to my kids and they loved it too
Also The View from the Cherry Tree
Both are great books.
Charlottes Web. Great book.
The next one.
Trixie Beldon ! Saved my money to but them! I think they were .79 cents
Deluxe versions!
I still have them!
Grandfather’s dance
I liked all the oz books
Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew.
Little House in the Big Woods
Really the entire series, but this is the book that started my love of reading.
Misty of (that island I can’t spell) then the Cherry Ames series. I don’t ride horses but I’ve been an RN for nearly 50 years so Cherry Ames had the most influence. Unfortunately, the capes were gone before I was official.
I loved Cherry Ames and lovely capes with red linings were still in use when I trained. Loved them.
Misty of Chingoteague!! When I was in college I needed to get away for a bit and I went there!!! Loved it. Very small town then, probably overcrowded with waterfront condos now. I hope not. As I wandered around, I came upon a cemetery where Misty the horse is buried among her human family – well that is what the headstone said.
@Kimberly I was a kid in Los Angeles in the 50s — the setting sounded like heaven! We had very few horses running down the streets of LA.
@Kimberly I was a kid in Los Angeles in the 50s — the setting sounded like heaven! We had very few horses running down the streets of LA.
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch!
I cried every time I read it.
me too!
When I was very young, I liked Frosty the Snowman bc I lived in Texas and we never got snow. When I was older, The Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High.
Had quite a collection of Babysitters Club – but for my daughter. ?
The Secret Garden and Cherry Ames series.
I loved Cherry Ames-and Sue Barton
Oh yes, Sue Barton – I couldn’t remember the name. I wonder how many of us went into nursing as a result of those books?
Dr Seuss I loved green eggs and ham
Happy Birthday Moon
Heidi
Amelia Bedilia
Heidi and Pollyanna
Where the Red Fern Grows
Beezus and Ramona!
The Boxcar children. Remember them?
OMG! I loved them!!! So resourceful.
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Nancy drew mysteries
And The Hardy Boys
Cherry Ames series.
I’ve been trying to find these FOR AGES!
@Karin The Vermont Country Store sells them — reproductions of a set of them. You can probably get them via their website. They carry many ‘old favorites’ of all kinds — cosmetics, perfume, candy.
Heidi.
Heidi
Peter Pan
Mandy by Julie Andrews
The hobbit, phantom tollbooth and Ferdinand the bull.
Cowboy Dan…first book I learned to read
Who read famous five?
I did! Loved the series! ?
Oz. Chronicles of Narnia. A cold wind blowing n Ann of green gables.
Then came Hobblit, LOTR, War of the Worlds, Dragonlance, Thieve’s World…..
Laura Ingalls ‘s series Little House… My grandmother offered me every single volume on my birthdays and/or for Christmas… A double source of emotion when I think of her
My experience, too!
Loved these too.
Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden
Star wars, jaws, bramstokers dracula, killer crabs
Aesops fairy tales
The Good Master by Kate Seredy. Wild Cousin Kate from Budapest has come to live on her uncle’s farm.
The Magnificent 5 series by Enid Blyton!
I love Enid Blyton! I started with the Secret Seven and moved on to the Magnificent 5
Misty of Chincoteague
Anything by Beverly Cleary
Charlotte’s Web
James and the Giant Peach.
The Pink Dress by Anne Alexander
James and the Giant Peach ?
Little women
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew
Farmer Boy or Anne of Green Gables
Pretty much anything at the East Rutherford library. Bobbsey Twins comes to mind. And Beeszus and Romona!
The Phantom Tollbooth and The Chronicles of Narnia when I was a little older (11 or so).
Charlotte’s Web
Outsiders and dragon rider by Cornelia funke
The Five Little Peppers
I remember reading a book about a family called Maitland who owned a hotel. The son befriended a couple, the husband was an invalid. They turned out to be the baddies who were counterfeiters. Can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. I also read books about a group of friends who ride ponies. Again a mystery I would like to solve and revisit.
Google Books can be a good way to find books. If you remember some key terms and phrases, just put ’em into Google Books, and you might end up finding it! 🙂
Thank you.
Swiss Family Robinson
Alice in Wonderland
The Borrowers series
Daddy Long Legs
The Monster at the end of this book, Junie B Jones, Christy Miller, crank series.
Flower fairies and Peter Pan
The Velveteen Rabbit
Heidi
Charlottes Web
The Borrowers and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Oh, The Borrower’s, YES!!
Ella Enchanted.
A Wrinkle In Time and Dear Mr Henshaw.
Tied between The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller… love both. They tie for First!
Great books, but they traumatized me so much!
The giving tree and where the sidewalk ends ?
The Tarzan series of novels. I should have read others I would have liked better.
I LOVED the Tarzan books!!!
The Black Stallion
When I was very young, it was The Boxcar Children. Then A Wrinkle in Time, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace
C S Lewis lived in East Belfast where I am from. We have some lovely statues of the wardrobe, Aslan etc.
@Ann, I’d love to see them!
I’ll see if I can find some images.
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books by Betty MacDonald, the wind in the willows, and so many others
HItchhikers guide to the galaxy
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
Chronicles of Narnia.
Im re-reading them now
My daughter just got her own set for Christmas. So I’m sure I’ll reread them with her.
Awesome 🙂
The Magic Tree House Series
Andy, by Tomie de Paola, Alistair and the elephant, by Marilyn Sadler.
Anne of green gables
Nancy drew series!!
Anything by Beverly Cleary!!
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet by Dr. Seuss
Swallows and Amazons. The Wind in the Willows. The Wizard of Earthsea.
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Dukite Snake
Star girl
Are you there God it’s me Margaret
The ugly duckling
Julians tales
Nancy Drew
Charlottes Web
Anne of Green Gables. Still is.
I didn’t read the books until I watched the series with my kids on the Disney Channel years ago. Loved both the series and the books
Peter Pan – I had my dad’s copy. I never tired of it.
I have never read this. I should !
Baby Dear
The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart @Lovelace
Pat the Bunny. Still a favorite!
Buy that for new babies, also have the app on my iPad. Granddaughter loves both, but especially the app.
Poems and Prose for the Very Young.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
I might have thought that was a good book when I was a child (although for sure it hadn’t been written yet!), but reading it to my children, as an adult, I just thought it was sad. I mean, from the tree’s point of view, you can say that the tree had every right to give and give and give, but from the taker’s standpoint, isn’t that us (and I am speaking of Americans, as an American) at our worst? That we take and take and take? And what does it say about us, that we are willing to do so? I mean, I know I am being literal here, and should not be knocking your childhood favorite… But especially seeing what is happening today, I’m not sure I’d want to be giving my child that message. Please, by all means, push back! I’d like to be set straight on this issue (and maybe, perhaps, grow a sense of humor???)
When reading the book, we do feel sad for the tree. And perhaps that is a good learning moment. That we can’t keep taking and taking. It’s not right. I remember feeling sad for the tree as a child. So, what message are we giving children? Maybe it depends on how we interpret it and talk about it to them.
@Heidi that’s perfect! Yes, you’re right! That is a good teaching moment, isn’t it? One that’s not likely to leave the child. Thank you.
I don’t remember how I felt reading this as a child but it’s been my favorite for as long as I can remember. As an adult and parent, I view the trees feeling and actions as those of a “parent.” I would give anything for my child, including all my “leaves, apples, branches and trunk” just to make my child happy and that’s what the tree does too, even in the end.
Little Women.
Phantom Tollbooth!
Read the Phantom Tollbooth as an adult – how great is that book!!!
Enid Blytons books
Oh! & Little Women
I read LW when I was 15. It was so romantic!
What age group???
You can answer age by age, if you like. Some people did.
the giver, swimmy, Harry Potter
Trixie Belden series
Dr.Doolittle
These two: Twig and Blue Willow
Did anyone read The Happy Holisters? We had the whole set. Once a month the mailman would deliver the newest one. My Mom would read them to us..then we started taking turns…fun memories. I LOVE to read!❤❤❤
I loved the Happy Hollisters. I still have a few that I found at a used bookstore. Great stories. Loved them and the Boxcar Children were similar – resourceful kids, solving mysteries. ❤️
A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Lady Jane
The Little House series
I didn’t read these til an adult- anyone read the Betsy Tacy books?
Also the Betsy, Tacy, and Tibb books. Loved them!!!
@Sara oops, I forgot About Tibb! Just thinking about the books makes me want to go make fudge! Lol.
Chronicles of Narnia
Charlotte Sometimes
The Water Babies
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Carrie’s War
Little house series
Swiss family Robinson
Little women
Oh and the chronicles of narnia
I forgot Swiss Family Robinson and Peter Pan.
The Dark is Rising.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Pretty sure it was Charlotte’s Web.
I have many but Sherlock Holmes was another one
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe!
The entire series was fantastic.
I got the book as a Christmas gift from my third grade teacher. My first “big book”. I remembered it was challenging, and a little spooky, and fantastical. I just loved it.
A Week of Raccoons by Gloria Whelan.
The Valley of Color Days. An oldie I found at my Grandmother’s house in Utica, NY. It was my mom’s favorite at the same age, around 8, I think. Amazing illustrations. First book I read on my own and I still have it.
Secret Garden and Little Women.
And all things Winnie the Pooh!
Heidi and Little Women
Heidi
Charlotte’s Webb for really young
The Phantom Tollbooth!
Where the red fern grows
Ballet in the Barn, by Regina J. Woody (I was going to become a prima ballerina) and Tomboy Row by Ruth langland Holberg, (when I felt my inner tomboy come out). I read both in the 5th grade, but there are so many others.
Ramona the Brave
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit and/or Peter Pan.
Velveteen Rabbit
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Snyder.
My all time favorite! My parents used to laugh at how many times I read it!
I still love it! Also The Changeling.
Charlie and the chocolate factory (which I stole from my mother’s bookshop)
I taught myself to type copying that book.
Sootie a British book that my mom’s aunt sent to me from Scotland. I still have it in my cedar chest.
Nancy drew
I read Terry Brooks as a teenager. My brother @Steve got me started and then I shared with my son @Adamwhen he was a young teen. 40 years later and I’m still reading his novels.
Winnie the Pooh, then Charlotte’s Web and later Nancy Drew and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I still have the copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn that I got as a child in the late sixties.
@Kimberly – my absolute favorite. I reread it every few years
@Kimberly – I caught the old movie, by chance, one afternoon and I loved it too!
The secret garden.