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Your Favorite Books From Childhood!

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The world atlas, especially the section in the front about the solar system.

I was a weird kid.

Me too. :nice: Atlases are awesome.

And I used to read our set of World Books for fun, too. I kind of miss physical encyclopedias. There was so much I'd learn about because I turned past a picture that was interesting, then I'd read the article.

I do the same thing with Wikipedia, now, too, but it's not the same.

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I used to do it with dictionaries, too. Read them for fun and learn all sorts of new words.
 

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As a young chld:

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Wind in the Willows
What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next
Artur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia
The Song of Hiawatha
A Child's Garden of Verses by RL Stevenson
Fables, Myths and Legends of other countries - various authors
The Odyssey and the Iliad
1,001 Arabian Nights (Scheherezade)
the poetry and stories of AB (Banjo) Paterson (author of Waltzing Matilda)
particularly The Geebung Polo Club, The Man From Ironbark,
Mulga Bill's Bicycle and The Man from Snowy River
the poetry and stories of Henry Lawson
Heloise
May Gibbs' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Blinky Bill,
and the Gumnut Babies

As a pre teen:

the Billabong Books
Anne of Green Gables series
Emily of New Moon Series
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
The books of Jean Plaidy
The Prophet
The Crucible
books of RL Stephenson

too many more to mention!
 

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I, too, have the Wiki-mania. I suffer similar symptoms on YouTube and StumbleUpon.
 

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Oh, I was a total bookworm as a kid. I remember a book I turned into a cabbage when I was 6 - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Read that over and over again, always carried it around, what a weirdo. :laugh:

Books by Astrid Lindgren were always my favourites. Karlson on the Roof; The Children of Noisy Village; Ronia, the Robber's Daughter; the Pippi Longstocking series; The Brothers Lionheart; etc.

Later on I couldn't get enough of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Tarzan and the Martian series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dracula by Bram Stoker. The Three Musketeers and the sequels by Alexandre Dumas. The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper. Books by Karl May with the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Anything by Agatha Christie!!! Basically, I read anything with a hint of adventure, thriller, crime, mystery. Good times. :D

In my teens I expanded my interest on to works by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Shakespeare...stuff like that. :wubbie:

I was and still am into the classics a lot and even though I read anything that piques my interest, I always turn back to the classics. Oh, this is great, it brings back so many wonderful memories. Now I want to start reading those books all over again. :holy:
My best books were not written in English.

English is a good second. Burroughs and Conan. Very entertaining.
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If you do not rebel, you do not catch. A ready-made suit does not fit.
 

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I didnt read at all when I was under 16-17, except few books for school.
But among those I read:

The Diary of Anne Frank
- I was around 12 when I read it and adored it. Felt like I understand Anna very good.

Around 17 it was Catcher in The Rye.

around 18 it was Steppenwolf
 

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Childhood:
The American Girl series... loved the elements of history infused into the storyline. After reading the Samantha stories, I got heavily into Victorian era stuff.
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Charlotte's Web
Little House on the Prairie
Dr. Seuss books
The Magic Schoolbus Series (science nerd in action)
Issac Asimov's The Rocky Planets
Various encyclopedias
Lynn Reid Banks' The Fairy Rebel
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Various fairy tales
Non-fiction books about meteorology, butterflies, marine life, the solar system, the human body, and dinosaurs.

Adolescence:
Homer- The Odyssey
Daniel Keyes- Flowers for Algernon
Jack London- The Call of the Wild
E.L. Doctorow- Ragtime, The Water Works
Steinbeck- The Pearl, Of Mice and Men
John Knowles- A Separate Peace
Edith Wharton- Ethan Frome
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet, Othello
J.D. Sallinger- Catcher in the Rye
Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
 

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How did I forget "Charlotte's Web"???? :wubbie:
 

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Let me see if I can remember them all.

Treasure Island
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
The Lord of the Rings (The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, etc.)
Paraifals Page
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
All of the Narnia's
Lord of the Flies
Odysseuss
A few of the Redwall's
The Voyage of Jerle Shannara Trilogy


I can't remember anymore right now but I'm having flashbacks from some of these posts! Animorphs and Ramona the Pest! My fourth grade teacher read the entire Ramona series for us. It was the best part of the day - even better than recess.
 

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The world atlas, especially the section in the front about the solar system.

I was a weird kid.

I used to read my grandmothers Encyclopædia Britannica set when I went over to her house. My aunts medical books were over there as well but they took those away from me after I showed them the section about pelvic exams... There was a picture of a woman undergoing a speculum exam and it showed all of THAT. I don't know why they let me read that book in the first place though because it had some very mature pictures in it.
 

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Charlotte's Web
A Wrinkle in Time
Green Eggs and Ham
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
The Cat in a Hat
Horton Hears a Who
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Little Women
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Heidi
Little Lord Faunteroy
The Tales of Peter Rabbit
The Little Prince
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie
 

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In kind of chronological order...

@Glorianna: I always did the book fairs at school -- not just getting books from the Weekly Reader / Scholastic fliers but also attending the actual fairs, walking around picking out books.

I also go to the public local library and bring home a literal brown shopping bag full of books weekly, and get a new bag the next trip.... along with attending the book camps there in the summer.


I was into lots of books when I was growing up. Some of my faves:

  • Dr. Seuss books (especially "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew").
  • Encyclopedia Brown mysteries
  • Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
  • Dummer Hoff
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  • The Bible (KJV, then NIV)
  • Amos and Boris (by William Steig) -- definitely a big fave
  • The Great Brain series (John Dennis Fitzgerald)
  • "Alvin Fernald" books by Clifford B. Hicks
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Anything written/illustrated by Mercer Mayer
  • Roald Dahl books
  • The Cricket in Times Square
  • Shel Silverstein books/poetry
  • Shane (by Jack Shaefer)
  • The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings/ Silmarillion (Tolkien)
  • Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
  • A Wrinkle in Time and others by Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Earthsea books (LeGuin)
  • "The Dark is Rising" series (Susan Cooper)
  • The initial Shannara books ("Elfstones" is my fave)
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1 & 2 (Donaldson)
  • Stephen King
  • The Chronicles of Amber (Zelazny)
  • Comic books (X-Men, Spiderman)
  • Mythadventures series
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Harlan Ellison
 

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Ramona Quimby series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dr. Seuss
Shel Silversteins Where the Sidewalk Ends and a Light in the Attic
Encyclopedia Brown
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Caps for Sale
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

And lots of others I can't think of right this second.

And I didn't read it until I was older but I'd also add the Chronicles of Narnia
 

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Man, I SO miss the book fair. The few that I can remember...

Picture books:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
The Little Red Hen
Three Little Pigs
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
A Pocket for Corduroy
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Goodnight Moon
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
The Rainbow Fish
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Grouchy Ladybug
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Mother goose tales and most Disney books

Novels/Stories:
The Phantom Tollbooth
Tuck Everlasting
The Great Gatsby
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Ruthie's Gift
Charlotte's Web
The Secret Garden
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)

Series:
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Wishbone
Goosebumps
Animorphs
Junie B. Jones
Baby-Sitters Club
Hank the Cowdog
Magic School Bus
Encyclopedia Brown

I wish I could remember them *all*.
I want to remember all of the books, films, cartoons, shows, and music that I loved most as a kid and buy and keep them all.


The world atlas, especially the section in the front about the solar system.

I was a weird kid.

I loved the world atlas, but only on a PC. I only liked it for maps/flags and hearing all of the ways to say 'hello'.
 

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my favorites...and in a sec i might actually remember the names but they were the ones where you could pick multiple endings...oooh i loved that...do they make those still or for adults i wonder...hmm...i'll edit if the name comes to me.
 

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my favorites...and in a sec i might actually remember the names but they were the ones where you could pick multiple endings...oooh i loved that...do they make those still or for adults i wonder...hmm...i'll edit if the name comes to me.

Well, uh, there were:
- Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Fighting Fantasy series (by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston)
- Sorcery! (4-part series by Steve Jackson)
 

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Series:
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Junie B. Jones

Those ones, I ran into (and read many/all of them) because my kids were reading them. (I immensely liked the art for both as well.) Others that I liked, text and art:

Captain Underpants series
Rumplestiltskin's Daughter
Harry Potter (although I've only read two books)
The Golden Compass series (although I didn't like the end as much)
 

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Actually Fighting Fantasy (I have almost all of them) only have one ending. They have several paths to said ending though.
 

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Actually Fighting Fantasy (I have almost all of them) only have one ending. They have several paths to said ending though.

I bought a number of them, all first edition -- any time I saw a new one, I had bought it. I might still have them in a box somewhere -- probably the first 20-25 that came out. Then I went to college and I stopped. I still have my original Sorcery! set.
 
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