Which books were there on your earliest trips to Book Heaven?
101 Dalmatians, Black Beauty, Heidi. These are the first books I remember getting from the library. Which books were there on your earliest trips to Book Heaven?
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Blueberries for Sal
The Secret Garden.
Misty of Chincoteague
I loved a good horse tale!
Bambi, I believe ?
Everything Nancy Drew
Read as many as I could get my hands on!
The Trixie Belden mysteries.
Loved Nancy and Trixie. Library did not have Nancy Drew so I had to save up my allowance!
I remember a bunch of fairy tale books with colors in their name, the the Blue Fairy Tale Book.
Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames
‘Tell Me Why!’ 1st book I ever borrowed from the local library, I was 8 yrs old. Then ,all the Malory Towers series, Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, The Phantom Tollbooth.
Anne of Green Gables, A Wrinkle in Time, Superfudge
Oz books, Harry the dog, Clifford
Watership Down. Scarred for life.
Enid Blyton’s books, especially there’s this one story I remember where a girl runs errands to earn some money. Can’t remember the name ?
@Zaid ?
All the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books. <3
Caps for Sale, Stone Soup, A Cabbage Patch Dolls Book were all checked out when I was four.
When I was older I remember riding my bike to the library and checked out The Boxcar Children, The Babysitter’s Club, American Girl Books, 100 Dresses, Black Beauty
Angel Unaware. Story about Roy and dale Rogers child who die pd of leukemia. I was a morbid kid.
I remember that. I loved Dale and Roy. The little girl’s name was Robin.
Black Beauty got me hooked on reading. From there everything I could get my hands on including cereal boxes. LOL I read every book in the Nancy Drew series as did most young girls.
Harold and the purple crayon! ? I loved that little guy and his adventures.. my mom got me my very own library card when I was very little (5-6 years old)
“Ellen Tebbits” and “Otis Spofford” both by Beverly Cleary. Not as popular as her Ramona books but I adored them both.
I grew up in a small town with not much of a library. Then we moved to Omaha when I was 10. Omaha had a beautiful library; it was book heaven. By then I was into horses, esp Black Stallion.
I loved the biographies in my school library. There was a series that was blue books with titles in orange. Haven’t seen them since I was in elementary school ( over 50 yrs ago). I remember loving Dolley Madison and James Ogelthorpe.
The Happy Moomins. Anyone know that oldie?
Misty of Chincoteague series
Born Free-Joy Anderson about Elsa, the Lioness! I live in South Africa and am passionate about wild animals! Especially predators.
All of Beverly Cleary’s books, which are set in my hometown. And my mom shared her love of the Betsy-Tacy and Tib series with me.
Little Women
Dr. Doolittle
Thornton W Burgess
I still love Burgess.
Oh, me too. Johnny Chuck and Sammy Jay were my favorites.
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
You just brought back childhood memories for me ? my third grade teacher read that series to us in class!
Mary Stewart’s books.
The Bobbsey Twins series, Thornton W. Burgess
Flossie and Freddy, Nan and Burt.
The Little House series.
Nancy Drew, anything with horses
The Black Stallion and shillouette biographies.
Trixie Belden series
Secret Garden and the Redwall series
Little house on the prarie too, of course
Louisa May Alcott’s biography is my first memorable library book experience.
Little Women
can’t remember back that far but I️ remember getting 3 to 5 dog or horse books and just looking at them with joy trying to decide which one to read first !
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
I remember in 5th grade they let the top reading group check books out of the middle school library. I read Life After Life, and books on numerology, astrology, and Greek Mythology.
The magic tree house books
The Little House on the Prairie was the first series I ever started picking up from the library. I think I was 8 or 9.
I can remember borrowing Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and being delighted by it. it was so funny. Also A Stable for Jill by Ruby Ferguson, which I loved. And i vividly remember at age about eleven I suppose borrowing Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster and being absolutely enchanted by it. it is still one of my favourite books. In general though I have more vivid memories of books I have bought or had bought for me, library borrowings are much vaguer in my memories. I’ve always been very acquisitve and like to own books rather than borrow them.
I didn’t read most well known children’s books like Little Women or The Secret Garden until I was an adult volunteering in the children’s room at a library.
I loved to read and still do. I read and reread Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, Little House on the Prairie, and especially the Babysitters Club.
Ronald Dahl. Loved them
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie books really stick out
Nancy Drew, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Pippi Longstocking….
Wizard of Oz, Gulliver’s Travels, Heidi…
Heidi and Black Beauty were my fav’s
Lad, A Dog was always my favorite to get!
Nancy Drew!
struuwelpeter
The secret garden. All the Laura Ingalls wilder series
Little women