Your Favorite "Childhood" Books

[Rjeso]

Richard Scarry when I was reeeeeally little

I used to love his books when I was really little. I remember we had this one that had a little bug on every single page. I can't even tell you how many times me and my sister would flip thru that book trying to be the first one to find that bug.

Yes, Goldbug! I used to love finding him as well. I suppose he was our generation's Waldo.

Yep, I remember looking for Goldbug all the time.

I also remember looking for Waldo, though.

[Rjeso]

what about those books that taught manners? like how to share and be polite.. i had a few of those and when i was working in a daycare last summer they had some and it brought so many fond memories.

I remember a set of books my grandma had by Joy Wilt Berry. It was called the Survival Series for kids, and it covered topics from manners to first aid to hygeine to how to get a good night's rest, etc. They were humorous, had fun illustrations, etc. I read them willingly.

[The Lady of Shadows]

Bear, Your Manners Are Showing.

is there really something about bears? or was it only a figure of speech for the title?!

i tried to find an image of it. it's really about a mama bear trying to teach/reteach her baby bear manners.

[Jean]

then Tiffany should totally add it to this list! If she doesn't some time soon, I'll do it myself.

[Ka-tet]

I enjoyed the tales of Brare Rabit, and The Animals Of Farthing Wood.

[JiMiTHiNG]

Narnia series, Dark Rising series, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, The Giver, Hatchet, A Wrinkle in Time series, John Christopher's Tripod series, and a ton more I can't think of right now..

[Unfound One]

A Wrinkle in Time series

Oh yes! I forgot about those books! We read the first one for English in 6th grade and I, being the huge book nerd that I am, went on to read the next three.
Actually, I should re-read them now that I would understand the "science" behind them a bit better. And I think there's five now?
Off to amazon.com...

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I read everything (I think) by Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume and Bill Wallace. I especially liked Trapped in Death Cave, and A dog called Kitty by Bill Wallace. I also enjoyed Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller. Also favorites were Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk ends is the book I read the most to my 10 month old twin girls. Something about alliteration grabs their attention.

[Iwritecode]

Peanuts AKA Charlie Brown books.
Berenstein Bears books
Beezus & Ramona books.
Golden books - I had a ton of these.
The "Soup" books by Robert Newton Peck. (Soup and Me, Soup for President)
Encyclopedia Brown books
The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ
Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf.

What's funny is I still have most of these. I just introduced my middle daughter to the Beezus and Ramona line of books because she has to read a certain number of books each month for school and they are on her list of "approved" books.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I liked the Beezus and Ramona Books. The Henry and Ribsy books and the Mouse and the Motorcycle books were also good.

[Rjeso]

I can't believe I forgot Calvin and Hobbes. All of them.

Also, I just found my copy of The Dark Is Rising, which was my favorite one out of the five books in the series. I totally read it over Christmas break when I was back home.

[Lady_Macbeth]

Forgive me if this has been posted before but:



This book was SO cash. I must have demanded that it be read to me as a bedtime story at least over 9000 times. ^_^

[Whitey Appleseed]

The Boxcar Children, 2nd grade, taught by Mrs. Burge, a gunslinger, missing two fingers from her right hand, some kind of sewing machine ate them...The Buffalo Knife...same age...and we had these books we called Little Big Books, a kind of comic in a small thick package, inch-thick, and I recall Space Ghost in one, maybe Johnny Quest in another...don't see them anymore...maybe on E-bay...they were little, maybe 4x5 and thick, comic-style.

[Iwritecode]

I can't believe I forgot Calvin and Hobbes. All of them.

Good call. I would've mentioned them but I discovered C&H later in life.

[jayson]

I can't believe I forgot Calvin and Hobbes. All of them.

Good call. I would've mentioned them but I discovered C&H later in life.

I associate it with my teens. Still good though. I loved Calvin & Hobbes. Bloom County too while we're on the subject of comic strips from that era.

[Emily]

I also loved Calvin and Hobbes but didn't appreciate the humor until my teens.
My favorite book as a child was The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It's about two house cats who escape and explore the world. I was obsessed with it when I read it int he 4th grade, in fact I doubt I would love adventure books as much as I do now if I hadn't read it then.

[theyspunaweb]

I liked the Hobbit and the The Jack Henry Books by Jack Gantos
also Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I probably read all of the Goosebumps that came out for a couple of years on end...I'm sure they're still out in my garage somewhere...

[Jackie]

My favorite Dr. Seuss book was always:



and I also loved:




I still have and read both every once in a while

[ClicheGuevara]

Silver crown

Maniac Magee

Sideways stories from wayside school


edit: I forgot about the giver!

[necromanticize]

Where the Wild Things Are :]
That was the very first book I learned to read.
I also really loved these historical diaries about girls from different eras... as well as American Girl books and anything scary I could get my hands on. I read a whole lot when I was younger, so I can't remember everything. I read a lot of Babysitter's Club as well. There were a lot of series I was into... Little House on the Prairie...Nancy Drew... I was quite the reader as a kid.

[college_ewok]

I read all of the goose bumps books too.

[fernandito]

Goosebumps is what got me into reading

[college_ewok]

Goosebumps is what got me into reading

Same here. I never really read until I read one of the goosebumps books, then I couldn't stop reading.

[Merlin1958]

When I was in the "tween" age, I really dug The Hardy Boys.

Ditto

[valtr0n]

When I was really little, my favorite book was Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. It's a completely racist book, but when I was little I thought it was the bomb.

I started reading The Gunslinger when I was 12 or 13, so that'd probably have been my favorite "adolescent" book.