Your Favorite "Childhood" Books

[theBeamisHome]

I hope this is where this would go.
I put childhood in quotations because I want the books to be ones that are considered to be for children. I know some of us were reading Sai King when we were like 8 or 9 but I'm not sure a lot of people would consider his books child friendly. I've been an avid reader since I first learned how so I have a few:

The Phantom Tollbooth- Amazing story. Great for kids that can understand what it means
The Little Prince- I've read it in both French and English. It's fully of allegory. And it makes this list for me because it's considered a children's book, but I really didn't read it until I was in like 11th or 12th grade. You should definitely reread it as an adult if you did when you were a child.
The Julie of the Wolves Series- I love wolves and this is probably my only favorite that was really just what it seemed. A story about a girl in Alaska that lives with a pack of wolves for a time. It was a three book series.

Ok.. those are my top 3... You can pick more or less if you have a hard time choosing, but please don't pick over 5 lol..

[razz]

my side of the mountain. another great series by Jean C George

[blackrose22]

As a kid I used to love reading The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton. Five on Finniston Farm was my favorite and must of read it dozens of times. Must look for it and read it again. Has to be at least 30 years since I last read it. God I'm getting old .

[Archangel(tjk)]

I would have to say the Hobbit, THe BFG by Dahl and a wrinkle in time

[Daghain]

Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott. I have no idea why, but I loved that book.

[MonteGss]

Holy shit, weird timing for this thread...I just found a book on eBay that I have been looking for for a long time. One from my childhood that it turns out is out of print now and nobody seems to remember it.

Uncle Wiggily and the Runaway Cheese.

I've ordered two, so I can give one to my goddaughter to have.

[Matt]

I was all Judy Blume and SE Hinton

Rumble Fish!!

[MonteGss]

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

[Darkthoughts]

S E Hinton! *gives Matt some skin* Rumblefish was awesome, although my favourite will always be The Outsiders. That Was Then, This Is Now is also excellent.
I once wrote a short story for an English assignment that my teacher gave me an A for and wrote the comment "reminiscent of S E Hinton" and it was my best compliment ever

Where The Wild Things Are is my favourite picture book story. Later on I was pretty much hooked on anything by Diana Wynne Jones.

[jayson]

The Phantom Tollbooth is definitely my favorite book from my childhood.

[Daghain]

I totally forgot about Judy Blume and S.E. Hinton. Both are excellent!

[Darkthoughts]

Judy Blume I remember Forever was the most checked out book in the school library

[Matt]

Kinship!!

Those two really defined my early reading experience, it wasn't a few years after that when King grabbed me for good.

[theBeamisHome]

The Phantom Tollbooth is definitely my favorite book from my childhood.

Mine and your love of The Phantom Tollbooth that was stated in the fottergrafs thread is what inspired this one

[Daghain]

Judy Blume I remember Forever was the most checked out book in the school library

I was in Catholic school when that came out - it was passed around among the girls like contraband in the prison yard.

[Darkthoughts]

My school was totally liberal, but even so you were sworn by everyone on the waiting list for it not to let the teachers look at it.
Shit, if you'd have been responsible for that getting confiscated you'd have been lynched

[jayson]

The Phantom Tollbooth is definitely my favorite book from my childhood.

Mine and your love of The Phantom Tollbooth that was stated in the fottergrafs thread is what inspired this one

I'm just glad to encounter more people who've read it. For such a great book I've not met/spoken to very many others who read it. I've actually bought a couple of copies over the years for friends with kids so they can read it.

[cozener]

Cat in the Hat

[educatedlady]

The Hobbit and The House of Seven Gables were the books I read most often, but I didn't really read a lot of "kids" books when I was younger. If it wasn't for school it was usually something my mom had read (like something by King). I did really like Nancy Drew books for a while when I was like, 7.

[theBeamisHome]

oh oh.. how could i forget? I LOVED the Boxcar Children.. read as many of them as I could find.

[fernandito]

Anything Goosebumps by R.L Stine.

[theBeamisHome]

I like the Fear Street stuff better than Goosebumps

[educatedlady]

Fear Street! I remember those. Definitely better than Goosebumps.

[Heather19]

Yay! Some Fear St. fans. I loved those books.

And pretty much anything by Dr. Seuss is great.

[John_and_Yoko]

And pretty much anything by Dr. Seuss is great.

Amen to that. I always loved those....

Only real problem with them is translating.... Hard to keep the rhythm and rhyme scheme--but it's been done.

Anyway, the rhythm and rhyme help you to remember the exact wording.