What’s your favourite book series you ever read in your childhood?
What’s your favourite book series you ever read in your childhood?
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What’s your favourite book series you ever read in your childhood?
Babysitter Club
Chronicles of Narnia, Trixie Belden, Happy Hollisters
I was a Trixie Belden fan. She was more relatable to my life than Nancy Drew
Little House
The Great Brain, but I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, too.
Happy Hollisters, the Three Investigators, and Hardy Boys.
The Miss Piggle Wiggle books!
Not a series, but an author: VC Andrews.
Nancy Drew. Hands down. But also Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, Anne of Green Gables
Harry potter
Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and (UK folk will know what I mean) the Annuals (Bunty, Beano, et al).
Malory Towers
Trixie Belden!
Trixie!
my favorite!
Little House!
goosebumps
Enid Blyton’s Five Find Outers, Famous Five and The Secret Seven, The Three Investigators, and the Narnia books.
The boxcar children
Redwall
Series of unfortunate events. I just loved it.
Nancy Drew, Little House, Lad A Dog.
Ouuu! Yeah Nancy drew was greatZ
Tarzan series was a favorite of mine when I was young. I had the complete series, which was quite a load of books!
Interesting to see the generation gap here 🙂
The Magic Treehouse
Chronicles of Narnia and Nancy Drew
Little house on the Praririe
The Black Stallion and Anne of Green Gables
2 of my favorites
Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny and Dragonlance.
Wolves of Willoughby Chase!!
Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Bobbsey Twins
Lion witch wardrobe
Everything Enid Blyton, especially Mallory Towers and The O’Sullivan Twins.
Little House on the Prairie
The Miss Piggle Wiggle books and Nancy Drew.
This is tough because most of the books I read as a kid were series. I’d have to say Little House because those are the books I still read today (and I’m wearing a Little House shirt today!), but I also devoured the Bobbsey Twins (I own dozens of them, including some first editions), Betsy-Tacy, Five Little Peppers, the Children of Noisy Village, Betsy and Star, the Moffats. I really liked older books. 🙂
Haven’t thought about The Five Little Peppers in years.
Not a book series but Louisa May Alcott – Little Women, Little Men, Under the Lilac Bush, Eight Cousins, Jack and Jill, and Old Fashioned Girl.
Me, too!
Me three!
Fear Street
Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames
Loved them both!
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston x
Oh yes, I loved those too. I had forgotten about them
Little House…
Varied with my age, but the ones that come to mind quickly are Laura Ingals Wilder Little House Books, the Mother West Wind Books, Nancy Drew and Annie of Green Gables.
I read and loved every single Nancy Drew mystery.
The sweet memory isn’t just because I loved the books, but also because of the golden memories surrounding the reading.
Like when the librarian at the Hankinson Public Library…open only Tuesday and Thursday afternoons…not only gave me a library card for when I visited my grandparents, but also let me check out ‘extra’ books to get through from Thursday to Tuesday.
And…all those times my parents assumed I was asleep…well, let’s just say I went through lots of flashlight batteries.
Fear Street…anything by Christopher Pike and the Scholastic/Point Horror books.
Trixie Belden
Anne of Green Gables and the Babysitter Club
Anne of Green Gables and Betsy-Tacy!
Mission Earth. A ten book adventure series by L Ron Hubbard. And Battlefield Earth. Amazing entertainment I intend to revisit.
The Babysitter’s Club ?
A Series of Unfortunate Events!
Never got into Harry Potter cuz I was too busy getting into THIS fandom
Chronicles of Narnia
Chronicles of Narnia, Chalet School series, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women series
Lord of the Rings.
Wrinkle In Time series
Cam Jansen, Fear Street
Goose bumps little house on the prairie and babysitters club the sister one haha I can’t remember her name
My sister used to read the little sister series. I think her name was Karen.
Lol I found her! I read every single one of those book in the 5th grade
I am several years older than my sister, but got so desperate for reading material, I actually read a few of these.
Chronicles of Narnia and the “Dear America” series
Mrs.Piggle Wiggle series
The Dark Is Rising series.
Little House on the Praire. Those books made me a reader. As I got older, Nancy Drew.
Chronicles of Narnia and then Nancy Drew
Not a series, but I read every book my reading level by Lois Lenski I could get my hands on.
Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
I loved Harry Potter and Nancy Drew.
Little House, the Happy Hollisters, Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys…I still love mysteries!
Anne of Green Gables, Trixie Beldon…
Nancy Drew mysteries. I still have my collection of the first 50.
Nancy Drew
The Babysitters Club
Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys.
Little House on the Prairie
My second favorites.
Arnold Stark Lobel- Frog and Toad books, Judy Blume-Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Beverly Cleary The Henry Hudgens collection.
Anne of Green Gables,Nancy Drew.
The Hobbit 🙂
Little House on the Prairie books.
Mrs.Piggle Wiggle or The Little House on the Prarie.
I loved those Bobsey’s, too.
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy quadrillogy.
For I am a hoopy frood who really knows where my towel is.
Little House on the Prairie and the Chronicles of Narnis. I read all of them dozens of times. Also enjoyed Nancy Drew and Mrs Piggle Wiggle
My fathers dragon
Alfred Hitchcock on the three investigators
Wizard of Oz books.
Nancy Drew!!
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blighton
Fear Street
Black Stallion
Anne of green gables, little house on the prairie, Nancy drew, hardy boys, multiple cheesy knock offs of Nancy drew.
Anne of Green Gables?
Little House on the Prairie, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames
Add the Hardy Boys & we will be twins!
Eragon. The inheritance cycle
Royal Diaries. Written from the perspectives of a real historical princesses from around the globe.
Encyclopedia Brown
The Abbey Girls, The Chalet School, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and more!
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder . . . but I’m afraid to go back and read them now because I realize that her portrayal of the Native Americans was very racist and stereotyped. ?
As a young child? Nancy Drew. Bobbsey Twins.
Nancy Drew
All the Trixie Belden books?!
Either Nancy Drew or Anne of Green Gables. ❤️
Lloyd Alexander’s – The Chronicles of Prydain. My intro into fantasy books.
Little House books
When I was a little older – Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels
Nancy drew ?
oh, and Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown
of course, Dr. Suess….I read a lot
I remember my father gave me The Cat in the Hat when he returned from a trip. Loved it!!
Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Citizen of the Galaxy, Podkayne of Mars, all Heinlein
Dealing with Dragons (the Enchanted Forest series)
Little House. Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys. Trixie Beldon. Milly Molly Mandy. Judy Blume. The Brain. Ramona. Sweet Valley. Babysitters Club. Bobsey Twins. The Choose your adventure.
Little house on the prairie
Nancy Drew, the Bobsey Twins and Uncle Wiggliy At different times in my childhood.
I loved Uncle Wiggly! You never hear about those.
The Boxcar Children
My children enjoyed these. I read along with them!
Boxcar Children!
Sweet Valley High!
The Laura Ingalls Wilder books!
Jason Nobody’s Dog
Chronicles of Narnia
Nancy Drew , Chronicles of Narnia, Chronicles of Prydain and then, later, The Lord of the Rings.
Nancy Drew. Then Sue Barton (the student nurse!)
Hawk’s Eye
Little house on the prairie
Ballet shoes
Madeline L’Engle series.
Enid Blyton Secret Seven and Famous Five.
Beany Malone
Not even gonna lie. The Babysitters Club.
Beverly Cleary & Judy Blume books, The Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High series, Anne of Green Gables, I read so much when I was young! I even read A Catcher in the Rye and Stephen King when I was probably too young to understand a lot of it!
The Whiteoaks of Jalna
Probably Coldfyre Trilogy.
Lord of the Rings! But before that A Horse Called Dragon
Little House on the Prairie
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Shiloh books, Anne of Green Gables series, and when even younger, I loved Thomas Brezina’s Seven Paws for Penny.
Anne of Green Gables – I still try to re-read all 8 books every year or at least every other year.
Anne of Green Gables
Carol Haywood, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Judy Blume
Babysitters club, little house on the prairie, Anne of green gables, Nancy drew, sweet valley high
Tom Swift books
Anne of Green Gables, Little Women
Nancy Drew series! Loved them
Oh! and Trixie Belden
The Bobbsey Twins.
The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
the enid Blyton kiki series
Nancy Drew.
The Lonely Doll Series by Dare Wright…..
I recently read a book about the author.
So have I!
I still have some of them
Nancy Drew
Anne of Geen Gables
Lemony Snicket i remeber borrowing them from the school library so many times
Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Vicki Stevens.
Daddy Long-Legs.
Pippi Longstocking, The Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, anything by Madeline L’Engle, Little House on the Prairie.
Nancy Drew, and Chronicles of Narnia.
Nancy Drew, The Black Stallion
Trixie Belden and Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter, the worst witch, Mallory towers x
Happy Hollisters, The Bobbsey Twins, Ginnie And Geneva, and the Cathy Leonard books. Oh and the Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood
I forgot about the Cathy Leonard books, Ginny and Geneva, and Betsy….loved all those as well!
Me too!!
Anything by Tamora Pierce! Also, you NEED to read these books: Half Magic by Edward Eager!
love Edwar Eager!!
half magic was my mom’s favorite book always! i loved it too
Trixie Belden! I still have the whole set. I bought them with my own money and couldn’t wait for the next one to come out!
I have all but 3!!!
Cherry Ames, Student Nurse
Nancy Drew.
I loved the biographies series our school library had. Don’t have any idea what they were called but they were blue with orange titles. I devoured those things.
Goosebumps and little house on the prairie
Cherry Ames and Trixie Belden
I think we’re the only Cherry Ames fans here! ?
I love Cherry Ames too!
I used to love reading the Dear America/My America book series as well as The baby sitter’s club & The Boxcar Children series. FYI I’m an on the dot 90s baby
Ramona and Boxcar children
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Little House books
Anne of Green Gables, Nancy Drew
I never read the books, but watched the mini-series on PBS, and it made me cry!
Tom Swift Jr.
The Boxcar Children.
The faraway tree books ?Enid Blyton
Little House on the Prairie, Boxcar Children, Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, Fear Street (R.L. Stine)
Choose Your Own Adventure
Sweet Valley High
Wizard of Oz
The Little House books, The ‘original’ box car children, Encyclopedia Brown
Was there a different series of Boxcar Children?
@Janie When I read them,they were all living in the boxcar after their parents had died. They’ve updated them and the children now live with their grandfather
Trixie Belden
The Chronicles of Narnia.
Reader’s digest started reading as my hobby, but my first book was CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.
Nancy Drew!
I’m old. Nancy Drew
I loved Nancy Drew as well!
I’m not old and I loved her!
I’m older Beany Malone. No one here ever heard of it
I remember Beany Malone!!
I read that series…it was great!
I LOVED Beany!!!
All of a Kind Family series by Sidney Taylor. Very few people have ever heard of these books though.
loved them!!!
Forgot about them. Absolutely LOVED them.
Loved them
I loved that series! Reordered the whole set when I received a Barnes and Noble gift card from my students!
Nancy Drew
The Five Little Peppers
Loved them as well.
I remember the little girl’s name was Phronsie. That’s all I remember about the books but I loved them.
Another great classic series!
Betsy-Tacy. Oh, wait…”Little House” series. Bobbsey Twins. All of a Kind Family. I can’t pick!!!
I LOVE betsy tacy!!!!!! and all of kind family!!! Did you read trixie belden?
Goodness! Another servies I forgot about. Loved them as well.
No, I never read Trixie Belden. I guess I missed something!
James Herriot
I read him as an adult after I saw the PBS series. I think I have read them twice.
Little House, Chronicles of Narnia, and Boxcar Children. Little Women and Little Men when I was older.
The Boxcar Children.
trixie belden
Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series.
Loved that series!!!
Sweet Valley High
Little House, Nancy Drew, and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
I love mrs. Piggle Wiggle- ann m martin wrote a new one!
Those are my three as well. I’m going to have to start following what you’re reading!
@Jessica, hmmm, I wonder what it took to get the rights to do that?
?
@Kari, the original Mrs. Piggle Wiggle was written by Betty MacDonald. I’m wondering about another author using the character.
NARNIA!!! ?
Betsy Tacy And Tib
my favorites!
Wonderful series!
Encyclopedia Brown. Still one of my favorite series and I’m in my 40s.
Boxcar Children.
Ramona
Nancy Drew.
The Famous Five
Malory Towers
The Secret Seven
3rd grade… Bobbsey Twins and Honey Bunch and Norman… 4th grade Nancy Drew. There were 40 books back then in the 50’s..she wore frocks and rode in roadsters. 5th grade.. Lantern In Her Hand.. Then on to Agatha Christie.
Nancy Drew! And the Hardy Boys!
The Boxcar Children
Laura Ingalls Wilder “Little House” series. I also loved the “Mrs. Piggle Wiggle” series <3
Little House
Mary Ann? I went to her home with Alonzo in Mansfield MO. Her kitchen looked like it was built for a child’s playhouse. She was so tiny!
@Kari I have always wanted to see it. The opposite of Julia Child’s at the Smithsonian – she was a giant.
The last time I was in DC was in the 80’s. Don’t think they had the Julia Child exhibit. I would have loved to have seen that! I still watch some of her shows from the 60’s on YouTube 🙂
Nancy Drew!
Box car children
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew, Little house on the prairie
Trixie Belden
I forgot about Trixie Belden. They were my Mom’s.
I’m old! ?
I’m right there with you 🙂
Anne of Green Gables
Didn’t read her until I was an adult. Read the entire series. Loved it.
Little House on the Prairie
Kingdom of Carbonel & Carbonel, king of the cats by Barbara Sleigh.
Sweet Valley High & Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy
The Hardy Boys
Sweet valley high, the baby sitters club, goosebumps
Glad to see Mrs. Piggle Wiggle mentioned on here. I could not get my nieces into them.
I read Mrs Piggle Wiggle to my children
Not technically a series ,Shel Silverstein was my absolute fav .
Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking, The Borrowers, Cherry Ames, Chronicles of Prydain, The Dark is Rising, all of Madeline L’Engle’s series, John Carter of Mars, and a turn of the century series about three sisters that I would love to find.
Oh, I’m going to have to check out The Borrowers!
I do not like fantasy, but the “Borrowers” were an exception.
I forgot Betsy Tacy and Tibbs.
My favorite!!!
Nancy Drew-got the whole collection in hard cover one Christmas-such excitement!
Ann of Green Gables
Little house!! And The Bobsey Twins!! I am sure I show my age with that one!!
I read The Bobbsey Twins! Now I have all the stories on my kindle.
@Judy I still have an old collection of the entire series… it seems to make every move… I can’t seem to let them go!!??
Other than Dr. Seuss, the Bobbsey Twins was the first series that I read…..from then on I was hooked on reading!
The Green Knowe series by Lucy Boston, especially the first two books.
Loved that series too!
Nancy Drew
Cherry Ames
Trixie Beldin
Hardy Boys
All of a Kind Family
The Black Stallion series
Loved those books!
Pippi long stocking, famous five, secret seven, worst witch, Roald Dahl, Narnia, earth sea, farthing wood, point horror, goosebumps, Adrian mole, puddle lane, black beauty, Heidi, little women, sailor moon.
Little House on the Prairie
Beatrix potter, terry pratchett, the hobbit, Harry Potter, his dark materials, the railway children, goodnight mr Tom, Carrie, just Henry,
I was and still am a bookworm , think we have over 600 books here, and I’ve worked in a library before. Anything you need to know bout books just ask xx
Babysitters club ?
Nancy Drew
Little House
Boxcar Children
Pippi Longstocking
Betsy Tacy and Tib
Anne of Green Gables
Loved them all too
Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew Mysteries
Nancy Drew
Cherry Ames
And Boxcar Children
Probably Narnia. I don’t think I read a lot of series, but in like 1st and 2nd grade I had and read a bunch of Sweet Valley Kids books. I read some Baby Sitters’ Club, too, but never collected as many BSC books. I didn’t read A Wrinkle in Time until sixth grade and only had that and a Wind in the Door, but I would have read the rest of those books if I’d had them. I think I read one book from The Chronicles of Prydain in sixth or seventh grade and probably would have liked them a lot if I’d read them earlier and had access to all the books.
Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High
Nancy Drew
The Song of the Lioness series… which I actually revisited when I was working in a bookstore in my 20s and STILL loved 🙂
https://www.amazon.com/Alanna-First-Adventure-Song-Lioness/dp/0689878559
I was a Tamora Pierce girl too – The Protector of the Small was my favorite!
My daughter loved these.
Little House on the Prairie
Nancy Drew!
Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Black Cauldron
A Wrinkle in Time!
Anne of Green Gables
Paddington Bear! I’m kinda sad and shocked that in a list of 300 comments, no one else has mentioned Paddington. My all-time fave! RIP Michael Bond.
OMG! I’m so ashamed! Yes, I totally read Paddington!
I wasn’t a reader as a child, but I did love Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Adventure!!!!
I’m old. Helen Fuller Orton mysteries. There were tons of them. Later, Sue Barton, nurse books.
I’m old too. I think I’ve read some of those
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
Seriously??? I almost NEVER run into anybody else that read them. Love, Love,Love that series when I was younger! I would buy them all up now if I could find them!
Loved them! Made my school librarian crazy that I wouldn’t try anything else. They are now just called The Three Investigators
@Beckie I read every one I could get my hands on from the school and public libraries. Kept a running list of all that I had read also. That was a looong time ago tho. Yeah I remember when they went to being called ” the three investigators ”
Funny thing is I used to think they were written by Alfred Hitchcock for a long time. Didn’t realize that he wasn’t the author for quite a while when I first started reading them.
Pippi Longstocking and Amelia Bedelia
Nancy Drew for a series…The Secret Garden for an individual book.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters, All of a Kind Family, Five Little Peppers, Little House books, Betsy Tacy and Tib, Ramona and Beezus, Beany Malone…I guess you could say I loved to read even when I was young!
It’s like we are twins! All my favorites.
I know that by these titles I am dating myself, but they were true classics in my opinion!
Forgot to add Louisa May Alcott, Ginny and Geneva, Cathy Leonard, the “shoes” books: Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes….a series I think from England, Mary Poppins, Pippi Longstocking. Never read Anne of Green Gables but I have the first one to read as an adult on my night table.
Sweet Valley High Series and Trixie Beldon series
My next door neighbor had the entire Hardy Boys series from the 1950s. We read them over and over all summer long every summer.
Hardy boys
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy..my first book binge.
I remember those! I first learned the word “grotto” from them. ❤️
Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter
Trixie Belsen.?
Anne of Green Gables. ❤️
The Happy Hollisters
Nancy Drew
I loved the Little House Series, Pippi Longstocking and a series called The Boxcar Children.
I loved pippi. Long stocking also
Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Boxcar Children
I forgot about Cherry Ames!
Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon
Anne of Green Gables
Babysitters club, I was obsessed.
Boxcar Children
Nancy Drew!
Babar
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mouse and the Motorcycle is what first comes to mind.
Wrinkle in time,
Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising Sequence. Also The Children of Green Knowe. This comment thread is making me want to rediscover tons of books though — so many wonderful memories!
Nancy Drew!
Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Little House Books, Signature Books Grosset & Dunlop- about famous people)
Trixie Belden
boxcar children, indian in cupboard, time for andrew, ordinary miracles
Nancy Drew and The Bobbsey Twins
Me, too!
Nancy drew yes!!
Did anyone read Stacy and Friends?
Ramona and Beezus
The babysitters club
Cherry Ames-nurse!
30 yrs ago the Dune series
Nancy Drew
Tricked Belsen, nurse cherry ames, of course Laura wilders little house series
narnia, LOR
The Oz books..”The Wizard of Oz”, “The Emerald City” , etc.
Hobbit series
Babysitting club books
Mine is a toss up between the Jinny series by Patricia Leitch or Nancy Drew. I was into horses and crime! ?
Little house!
Also babysitters club.
The Little House Books, The original Nancy Drew books, and the original Boxcar Children.
Sweet Valley High
Nancy @Drew.
belgariad- David Eddings ……well all of his stuff
That was my answer, too. I also LOVED Terry Brooks’, Shannara Trilogy.
still trying to read those
got all of David Eddings on audable now too
@Paul I’m reading David Eddings again and still enjoy him as my favorite fantasy author. Just recently read, The Redemption of Althalus, and LOVED it….
his wife’s input was so telling in his books . in the way he wrote women and then she started to get the credit on the covers
I’m 1/2 way through the Belgaraid on audio book
David Gemmell is a good read too
Ill look into that author, also. Terry Brooks and David Eddings kind of spoiled me. Thanks for the recommendation.
Biggles
Dr seuss how i learnt to read
I haven’t seen any mention of the Moonim books by Tove Jansson. They were some of my favorites.
Ann of Green Gables/Ann of the Island. Nancy Drew.
I read, Anne Of Green Gables, as an adult. I’m sure it would have affected me, if I’d read it in my childhood.
Ann with an E
Yes. She was very particular about that e. LOL
@Kathi I have a Lily Anne for my love of the books ?.
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
Loved those. Worked my way through all of them, plus the sulky racers and the The Island Stallion, and even the zebra! Loved them all!
Anne of Green Gables & The Babysitters Club.
Percy Jackson
I read a lot of Nancy Drew.
hardy boys
I loved hardy boys more than Nancy drew
@Amanda so did my mum. She said they got to do fun things. She was so disparaging of drew, I didn’t bother. hmmmm. seems pretty popular!
Trixie Beldon
I saved every month to buy another at the dime store. I think they were 79 cents. Lol. They were mysteries for kids elementary school age. I also loved Little House on the prairie.
Betsy, Tacy
Tricia Belden
That was supposed to be Trixie Beldon, but apparently autocorrect never read those books,
The Bobbsey Twins
And the Curly Top Twins for me.
And Nancy Drew!
Robinson crusoe
Nancy @Drew.
Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children
Bernstein bears ?
This may interest you… ? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvx7v8/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes
Flowers in the attic and the baby sitters club
Wow I remember Flowers in the Attic. I read it when I was 10 and kept rereading the series every so often for a few years. The movie was …terrible!
Boxcar Children
I love Nancy Drew’s books
The Sword of Shannara.
Wow! you just brought back some memories! I loved those books even though I was older when I read them.
I was like 11 or 12.
@Marija I was older than that when they came out. I think I was in high school. I read them all one summer.
Yes, it took me the whole winter here. But still love to return. 🙂
Nancy Drew.
Little House on the Prairie, Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew
Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley Twins and Sweet Valley High
The Chronicles of Narnia
Faraway Tree
Anne of Green Gables
Harry Potter – I was in my 30’s and 40’s!? Seriously, the only thing I can remember reading more than a single book was the Mary Poppins series. It’s been a long long time and many many books since then. I do know that I never cared for Nancy Drew. I’m kinda an odd duck that way!
I read them in my 50’s & 60’s! Loved them all! Now my granddaughters have read them and we’ve been to Universal Studios to the Harry Potter part. Loved Mary Poppins too.
@Leslie – I’m jealous that you’ve been to Universal Studios…I hear it’s amazing!
We went when we were still living in Florida…special rates for FL residents. It was truly amazing! The girls were in awe! Even my daughter (who has not read the books) got really into it! The Hogwarts Express was so realistic it made you want to GO to Hogwarts!!
All books by Judy Blume
The Little House Books
The Black Stallion
Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and The Happy Hollisters! I’m showing my age.
Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown.
Trixie Belden
Animorphs
The little House in the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
The Faraway Tree Series. I loved it so much – seeing I owned only one book out of the series because my family couldn’t afford to buy the others when I was young – I saved up and bought all 5 books for my niece for her 5th birthday! She complained she couldn’t read them yet… I said to her: ‘The best thing the world is to be read to.’ and you know? I was right. Her Dad sat down and started on book 1 and ended up reading them all himself before reading them to her. I loved it when I bought hardcover reprints for her of Enid Blyton and wrote in the front for her. 😀
Every one of Walter Farley’s horse books and Marguerite Henry’s ‘Misty of Chincoteague’. I was a typical horse crazy tween!
Encyclopedia brown
My daughter loved that!
Sherlock holmes
Indian in the Cupboard and Goosebumps
Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators
None better, EVER!
I wanted to write to at least one of the ghost authors to tell them how much I enjoyed the series, but alas, they’re all passed now.
@Steven would love to run across a collection of this series! When younger I had a decent start of a collection but they were lost in a house fire.
I got a whole bunch on eBay a couple of years ago – if you do a search under “3 (or Three) Investigators – bulk lots” I’m sure you’ll find something.
Yes I have 6 of them I think. They were hard to find then but I can give you some titles if it helps in your searching…
@Tricia going through that list I’m pretty darn sure I’ve read every single one of those. I actually think I’ve got that exact list somewhere also. Not sure if it was from one of the books or from doing a search at some point.
Brings back memories for sure!
It was in the back of one of the books 🙂 I loved them so much when I was young!!
@Tricia I made and carried around my own little business cards that had the ??? on it.
Remember that?
Narnia
Cricket in Times Square books
I forgot about these! I liked them too.
I got into them when my teachers showed the animated version. I learned early the book is better than the movie.
Boxcar children. My mom usually bought two copies- one for her and one for me- and we’d read them together ?
This thread makes me feel like I’m 100. Many of these series I used as reading teacher many moons ago. I feel like I should reply “I read the codex in 7 B C E” ????
Cherry Ames is listed here more often than I expected. I borrowed them from my girl scout leader 50 years ago, and didn’t know anyone else who read them.
Catherine Abe Lincoln and I shared a candle when we read!!
I agree @Linda…I’ve been reminded of long forgotten books but I’ve always remembered the ones that inspired me to keep reading!
Enid Blyton n then Agatha Christie
Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper!
The Goddess Girls Series by Joan Holub and Suzzane Williams
My grandddaughters loved those!
The Black Stallion.
Betsy, Tacey and Tib – every one of them!
Nancy Drew! 🙂
And Cherry Ames!
Hmm. Read all of Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames. Also loved The Borrowers and Edward Eager’s books.
The Borrowers! ❤️
🙂
Nancy Drew.
Nancy Drew. Trixie Belden.
Maurice Sendak’s pocket library. ” chicken soup with rice. Pierre, etc.
beatrix potter
i ( embarrassed to say ) loved the Anne of green gables, gobbled them all up.
Why embarrassed? They were excellent and well written. I did not discover them until I was an adult. Loved them!
i did the whole little women series. I remember the first 2. I think I slogged thru the rest, zombie like, for the library summer reading program.
I read ANYTHING Roal Dahl. No series, but read his complete works, & then adult works when older. He was my favourite of all time
all of the blue, yellow etc. book of fairy tales
I enjoyed the little house series ( on the prairie )
Lots of people have mentioned Anne of Green Gables. I loved Anne but there was another book by the same author that I seem to be the only person who ever read it: Emily of New Moon.
was that not part of the series?
No. It was its own 3 book series. I don’t remember any connection.
I remember Emily of New Moon. And there were other books by L.M. Montgomery besides those 2 series.
The Blue Castle is another by her, and it’s lovely! One of my favorite books.
Many people say Emily is even better than Anne, but I don’t think Anne can be topped! I so wanted to be her!
I loved Emily of Nee Moon!
I WISH! wish wish I’d been introduced to Hornblower as a child. Pretty miffed I missed out, I think that wouldve changed my life. as in, I’d be a maverick sailor now, and working on one of those historical ships…well, woulda gone for it…
Your parents probably kept it from you on purpose lol!
@Mary I suspect it’s cuz I was a girl
Oh I know! How did we grow up to be such cool women.
We also read a series with my son called Beastquest. A very easy light, non scary fantasy series. After that we did the Rangers Apprentice series but that’s probably later elementary, or middle school level.
What age for Beastquest please?
I think early elementary. It’s easy chapter books so some kids read on their own but we read them to my son.
The author is Adam Blade.
I zipped through Nancy Drew mysteries. The Boxcar Children series was an obsession for awhile. I also went through the normal fourth grade girls horse obsession and read all the Marguerite Henry horse books- Misty, Stormy, King of the Wind etc
Nancy Drew, but The Wizard of Oz was my favorite book.
The Moomintroll books by Tove Jannsen.
The legend of Zorro
Winnetou … 🙂
There was a series in our library about famous people (Clara Barton, Thomas Edison, Florescent Nightingale, etc.) They had blue covers. Also liked Black Beauty.
I read those too! You jogged a memory for me! Thanks.
I remember those little biographies too! Ours were orange though. I read all our school and public library had. Clara Barton and Nelly Bly were my faves. Thanks for the memories!
I read those too! Loved them all.
Did anyone read The Blue Fairy Tale book, and lots of others with colors?
oops, Tale should be Tail.
I did! I still have them…
I loved them – read all the colours I could lay my hands on! Found one on kindle (green I think) a few years back – some of those tales were very dark!
Famous Five and Malory Towers by Enid Blyton. Also Chalet School by Elinor Brent Dyer
Beverly Cleary
Trixie Belden mystery books
Nancy Drew, Little House, Five Little Peppers..,Judy Bolton, Trixie Belden , Cherry Ames, a lot of the formula series. Most were written by the same author, different names.
Ramona Quimbly and Little House on the Prairie. When I got a little older: Sweet Valley High, Babysitters Club, Encyclopedia Brown.
Anne of Green Gables
Beanie Malone
Anyone remember the Boxcar children?
Not as a reader, but as a teacher with students who devoured them, and some still do.
YES!!! those were my absolute favorite ad a kid!!!
Loved the series when I was young.
Little House on the Prairie. The babysitters club.
Nancy Drew
I read the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis over and over again, so that was probably my favourite series until I was ten or eleven. Then I discovered the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge, which I loved, they are so funny.