Dr. Seuss for early childhood, then Ramona quimby books, after that Babysitters club (the first chapter book I remember reading to myself) then Fear street (R.L. Stein) as I got older.
I have the remnants of a book I about loved to death…Doesn’t have the cover anymore but it’s something like 365 Bedtime Stories..Love it. Also Pink Fairy book and Betsy-Tacy books, Uncle Wriggley, Black Beauty, and Maida’s Little Lighthouse.
An old Reader’s Digest compilation book called Animals You Will Never Forget. It was filled with true stories about animals (one of which was Elsa and her lion cubs from Born Free). I LOVED that book as a kid and read the stories over and over. I still have it. ?
Beatrix Potter, Amelia Bedelia, Little House, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and a big book of classic children’s lit that had been my Mom’s text book in college
One of my daughters got a dog and named her Luna. A few months later my other daughter got a dog and named her Stella. They didn’t even realized they named their dogs stellaluna, a story I read to them over and over.
Its a toss up between Hawaii by Michener, Starship Troopers by Heinlein or the The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. What can I say, I was weird kid who read adult level books by third grade.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Judy Blume Books, Beverly Cleary Books, The Babysitter Club Books, Sweet Valley Twins. Sorry I couldn’t pick just one.
To Kill a Mockingbird Playing under the chinaberry tree and living in the deep South during the early years of desegregation. My parents were divorced so Mr. Rogers stood in for Atticus.
Wishin and Hopin… wally lamb. raised in parochial school myself and aunts and uncles who were in the religious life…. that book hit the nail on the head a few times. delightful!!
Little House On the Prairie. I didn’t live on a prairie, but my best friend was one of 9 children who lived on a farm 8 miles from town. I spent several weekends there, earning my breakfast by mending fences and hauling wood in the dead of winter before the sun even rose. Food (fresh homemade bread and churned butter) never tasted so good. Her dad taught me to ride a horse — he cursed at me just like I was one of his own. . . And I learned, quickly. They kneeled and prayed the rosary every evening after dinner and when the sun set, we sat around a campfire listening to the elk bugle. I loved it there. My friend hated it and escaped to what she felt was more exciting, sleeping over my house in town, right across from a park and pool where they hosted night ‘teen swims’, basketball tournaments, and within walking distance of Youth Center Dances. She envied me. I envied her. She and every one of her siblings now live in towns and cities. Needless to say, I now live in the country.
Being a late bloomer I have just begun swimming in the ocean of literature.Sorry,I can’t answer your question immediately.Perhaps after six months I can deal with it somewhat satisfactorily.ok?
@Venus yep. I’m pretty sure I’ve read all of his books. I’m a teacher and have wanted to be one since my third grade teacher read to us The BFG. I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so many times that my copy (this little red one) had its pages falling out. He is THE best! I’m actually thinking about doing my classroom this year in a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme ?.
Hmmm… World Book Encyclopedia?
Joke Books
Dr Seuss
Mathilda by Roald Dahl
It
Wow! What a childhood u must of had.
@Cleo could I tell you some stories??
@Naomi sure u can
@Naomi Write ’em down1
Any Judy Blume
Yep!
Highlights Magazines ❤️
I used to love Highlights magazine.
They remind me of the dentist’s office.
Charlotte’s Web and the Little House books
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Corduroy Bear
Poky Little Puppy, Winnie the Pooh books
Dr. Seuss for early childhood, then Ramona quimby books, after that Babysitters club (the first chapter book I remember reading to myself) then Fear street (R.L. Stein) as I got older.
Little House and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
Loved Mrs. Piggle Wiggle!
Anne of Green Gables
Peter Pan; Mary Poppins series
Heidi, Cinderella, Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew
Ferdinand the Bull
Sweet Valley High (when I was a teenager) Judy Blume Books, Narnia Series
Tricksie Beldon
I loved this series so much! I wanted Trixie’s family!
The Babysitters Club books
Stig of the dump.
The wizard of Oz
Homecoming Cythnia Voigt
Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew
The Cat in the Hat
Childcraft encyclopedias
The Nancy Drew collection I had – over 70 books! I spent all my pocket money on them. Started collecting The Hardy Boys too.
And Enid Blyton – the Mallory Towers books.
Babysitters club series
The Hardy Boys collection
Tarzan of the Apes
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
I have the remnants of a book I about loved to death…Doesn’t have the cover anymore but it’s something like 365 Bedtime Stories..Love it. Also Pink Fairy book and Betsy-Tacy books, Uncle Wriggley, Black Beauty, and Maida’s Little Lighthouse.
The wonderful flight to the mushroom planet by Eleanor Cameron and Nancy Drew mysteries.
Mary Poppins
The boxcar children
The Ghost of Opalina by Peggy Bacon. It’s the one book I can remember my mother reading to my siblings and me at night 🙂
An old Reader’s Digest compilation book called Animals You Will Never Forget. It was filled with true stories about animals (one of which was Elsa and her lion cubs from Born Free). I LOVED that book as a kid and read the stories over and over. I still have it. ?
Animals You Will Never Forget https://www.amazon.com/dp/0895770490/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_OsjvBbGYKE2S8
Harriet The Spy ??♀️
I wanted to be Harriet.
Beatrix Potter, Amelia Bedelia, Little House, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and a big book of classic children’s lit that had been my Mom’s text book in college
I’ll Love You Forever
Light in the Attic and other books by Shel Silverstein, Robert Munsch anything.
Archie comics, RL Stein books and the Goosebump series, Judy Blume and Lurlene McDaniel tear jerkers.
One of my daughters got a dog and named her Luna. A few months later my other daughter got a dog and named her Stella. They didn’t even realized they named their dogs stellaluna, a story I read to them over and over.
Beatrix Potter series with Peter Rabbit
Charlotte’s Web
The Boxcar Children series.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Junie B Jones.
The Boxcar Children
Forgot about this!
Any of Judy Blume’s books.
Heidi. My mom read us a chapter a night. And of course Nancy Drew. 😀
Babysitter’s club
Little Women
Little Bear
Not a book, but an author – Enid Blyton.
Dandelion wine, Ray Bradbury
Yes; one of my favorites; perfectly captured being a 12 year old boy
Lord of the Flies
Little House on the Prairie series
My beat up copy of Howl’s Moving castle. And Inkheart.
Its a toss up between Hawaii by Michener, Starship Troopers by Heinlein or the The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. What can I say, I was weird kid who read adult level books by third grade.
Little house on the prairie series
The Ghost of Dibble Hollow.
A Wrinkle in Time
Are you there God? It is me Margaret
Can only think of the ones I wish did like Auntie Mame
All the Trixie Beldens.
The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames nurse, and Judy Bolton.
The Magic Treehouse series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Judy Blume Books, Beverly Cleary Books, The Babysitter Club Books, Sweet Valley Twins. Sorry I couldn’t pick just one.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Playing under the chinaberry tree and living in the deep South during the early years of desegregation. My parents were divorced so Mr. Rogers stood in for Atticus.
Caddie Woodlawn, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Bears of Blue River.
The My Book House set.
That was my answer!!
@JoAnn Me too!!! Imagine that!!
Flowers in the Attic….JK, lol
That’s a good one.
Miss Nelson is missing
Ira sleeps over
to kill a mockingbird
Do you mean the books we read or a book that depicts our childhood?
I thought she meant the latter of your two, but maybe it is either/or.
#Barbara Irish O’Connell Crawford
Wishin and Hopin… wally lamb. raised in parochial school myself and aunts and uncles who were in the religious life…. that book hit the nail on the head a few times. delightful!!
Little House On the Prairie. I didn’t live on a prairie, but my best friend was one of 9 children who lived on a farm 8 miles from town. I spent several weekends there, earning my breakfast by mending fences and hauling wood in the dead of winter before the sun even rose. Food (fresh homemade bread and churned butter) never tasted so good. Her dad taught me to ride a horse — he cursed at me just like I was one of his own. . . And I learned, quickly. They kneeled and prayed the rosary every evening after dinner and when the sun set, we sat around a campfire listening to the elk bugle. I loved it there. My friend hated it and escaped to what she felt was more exciting, sleeping over my house in town, right across from a park and pool where they hosted night ‘teen swims’, basketball tournaments, and within walking distance of Youth Center Dances. She envied me. I envied her. She and every one of her siblings now live in towns and cities. Needless to say, I now live in the country.
Angela’s Ashes. I went to Catholic school and the confession chapter makes me LOL every time I read it 😉
Being a late bloomer I have just begun swimming in the ocean of literature.Sorry,I can’t answer your question immediately.Perhaps after six months I can deal with it somewhat satisfactorily.ok?
better late them never
Welcome aboard to a whole new world.
“The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp”, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and “Lord of the Flies”
The Neverending Story
Dinner at the homesick restaurant- I was certain Anne Tyler had hidden in my house and secretly recorded our meals!!
I picked this one up at a used bookstore a little while back!
The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright
Charlotte’s Web
Yes!
Same here.
Nancy Drew books or further back, Dick and Jane and Dr Seuss.
Nancy drew
Rohl Dahl
The best!!!!
The first I read was Matilda. Loved it so much that I re-read it over and over. Other than that my fav is The Witches. Have you read it?
@Venus yep. I’m pretty sure I’ve read all of his books. I’m a teacher and have wanted to be one since my third grade teacher read to us The BFG. I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so many times that my copy (this little red one) had its pages falling out. He is THE best! I’m actually thinking about doing my classroom this year in a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme ?.
That would be awesome! I would have loved to have such a creative teacher ! What grade do you teach?
I’ve taught 4th the past few years but I’m heading back to 3rd next year!
amazing! <3 ?
Little House in the Big Woods, for my American side. And Swallows and Amazons, for my British side.
Nancy Drew
The famous five and secret seven
Macbeth in comic book form. I kid you Not! every 10 yo Scottish child should be given a copy hahaha
It was rebellion mostly the school kept banging on about swallows and amazons LOL
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Where the Sidewalk Ends