Your Favorite "Childhood" Books

[The Lady of Shadows]

And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
Outside Over There (although i was older when it came out it just spoke to me)
Horton Hatches The Egg

[Heather19]

I always loved Horton Hears a Who, and Wacky Wednesday.

[razz]

i never read those kind of books. the only books i remember reading (except for ones of information) that did not have chapters, were those little 10 page picture books that you read with your parents in kindergarten (well, at least I started in kindergarten). after that i read some of them there boxcar children books, got ill off Goosebumps, read some Ph34rstreet, and worked my way to Crichton by 4th grade

[Shamey]

I read a lot of Ramona Quimby...I think that's what it was called

[The Lady of Shadows]

ooh. i liked ramona, too. beezus and ramona. ramona the pest. you mean her right?

[Shamey]

Yeah! I remember one where she tries to get her Dad to quit smoking so she replaced all his cigarettes with rolled up pieces of paper that said something like "please quit". Does anyone remember Amelia Bedelia? I don't know if that's spelled right either.

[razz]

holy shit i actually remember that. i think it wa required reading in for my secind grade reading class. what you think of is the "Nosmo King" poster

[Heather19]

Ramona and Amelia Bedelia, I had forgotten all about those.

[PedroPáramo]

"The treasure island"
and
"Charly and the chocolate factory"

[razz]

for a second i thought you said charlie the Choo-Choo

[LadyHitchhiker]

Any books by

Dr. Seuss

or

Roald Dahl

were my FAVORITES...

[Jean]

Winnie the Pooh (obviously)
Mary Poppins
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (not really a children's book, but I've read it since I can remember myself)
The Adventures of Tom Sayer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Blood series (by Sabatini)
Karlsson-on-the-Roof series, by Astrid Lindgren
The Pippi Longstocking series, by Astrid Lindgren
Kalle Blomkvist series, by Astrid Lindgren

also, a lot of Russian (Soviet) books, they were wonderful

[Unfound One]

- All the Boxcar Children books - I was in the bookclub where you got 3 new ones in the mail every two weeks (except I'd have them read in 2 days and have to wait)
- I was really into Nancy Drew for awhile
- Louis Sachar books, Holes and the Wayside School books
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Shel Silverstein collections (Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up)
- Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong, about a homeless dog - this book used to make me cry and cry.

[theBeamisHome]

i had Amelia Bedeliea too.. and my favorite Dr. Suess story was The Sneetches... just said so much about society and discrimination. Dr. Suess was deep... anybody have those books that were supposed to teach you manners?

[cozener]

A lot of the books being mentioned...not sure I consider them "children's" books. I guess when I think of a Children's book I think of books with lots of pictures depicting the story. The Hobbit doesn't really fall into this category. The Hobbit, Goosebumps, etc...I see those as "tweener" books. "Everybody Poops"...now thats a children's book.

[jayson]

I lot of the books being mentioned...not sure I consider them "children's" books. I guess when I think of a Children's book I think of books with lots of pictures depicting the story. The Hobbit doesn't really fall into this category. The Hobbit, Goosebumps, etc...I see those as "tweener" books.

Though that may be the age group that typically reads and enjoys the Hobbit, Tolkien did envision writing it for a younger audience. His original test reader for it was Rayner Unwin [son of his publisher Stanley Unwin] who was only 8 at the time and he enjoyed it thoroughly.

[theBeamisHome]

ok well i guess that could be a little ambiguous.. i really meant the kinds of books that are meant for kids pre-high school...

[LadyHitchhiker]

Alice in Wonderland kicked butt

so does

Momo and Neverending story by Michael Ende.

[cozener]

I lot of the books being mentioned...not sure I consider them "children's" books. I guess when I think of a Children's book I think of books with lots of pictures depicting the story. The Hobbit doesn't really fall into this category. The Hobbit, Goosebumps, etc...I see those as "tweener" books.

Though that may be the age group that typically reads and enjoys the Hobbit, Tolkien did envision writing it for a younger audience. His original test reader for it was Rayner Unwin [son of his publisher Stanley Unwin] who was only 8 at the time and he enjoyed it thoroughly.

Something tells me that little Rayner had more of a command of the English language than most of today's 8 year olds.

[jayson]

Something tells me that little Rayner had more of a command of the English language than most of today's 8 year olds.

I don't doubt that for a second.

[theBeamisHome]

i'm going to turn my children into little reading monsters like myself... nigel will get them into sci fi and i'll get them into horror... besides that we're well balanced in everything else... but my kids will read

[LadyHitchhiker]

How about the Phantom Tollbooth?!?!? Amazing book!

[theBeamisHome]

yeah we mentioned that.. another Phantom Tollbooth fan!!! YAAAYYY!!

where'd RofG go? must have a party in the Castle in the Air.

[LadyHitchhiker]

I love my spelling bee...

[theBeamisHome]

I really like Tock..... Killing Time???? Killing Time??? lol don't kill Time people... it hurts