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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 21, 2024 21:12:53 GMT
Do you have a favorite or even a few favorite Childhood books that you loved to read or have read to you?
I loved the Bernstein Bear books as well as stories where you could pick what happened next by chosing what page you turned to.
And of course any story about a horse.
In high school my favorite was Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World. I have read both several times.
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Post by quinlove on Jul 21, 2024 21:34:28 GMT
That was a loooong time ago. Best I can remember, I really enjoyed - The Boxcar Children. and then I read and reread all the Nancy Drew books.
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Post by Zee on Jul 21, 2024 21:37:13 GMT
That was a loooong time ago. Best I can remember, I really enjoyed - The Boxcar Children. and then I read and reread all the Nancy Drew books. There is a bit of land on the Etowah River in Dahlonega, GA with a boxcar on it, waiting for a buyer. I could be living my childhood Boxcar Children dream right now if I wanted to spend $125k for the pleasure. I was almost ready to rush out and do it this morning!
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Post by Lexica on Jul 21, 2024 21:43:42 GMT
I have always loved to read. As a child, I frequently got in trouble because instead of going to bed and to sleep, I would make what I called my.reading tent by using clothespins and clipping my bedspread to the curves on my iron headboard. I would then climb in with a book and flashlight so that I could continue my book without disturbing my younger sister who shared the bedroom with me. If my mom caught me, she would tell me I was going to ruin my eyesight and make me take my tent down.
Favorite books were any of.the books my grandmother sent from Canada. They were stories that we didn’t have in our library here. A particular favorite were the adventure series books by English writer Enid Blyton. They were stories about a single mother with two children and their two best friends who were always with them. My parents were divorced at the time and I didn’t know any other children with a single mum so I identified with these books. My grandmother would send us each books for a birthday or Christmas. Both of my sisters would just toss the books aside and I don’t think they ever read a single one of them. I usually made a trade for them and would immediately sit down and read it in one session unless interrupted for some reason. I read them to my son when he was little and he loved them as much as I did.
Another favorite was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read long before it was made into a movie.
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Post by Linda on Jul 21, 2024 21:45:57 GMT
I loved When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Owl who was afraid of the dark. Also the Heidi trilogy and most anything by Enid Blyton - but esp. the school stories. I also loved the Chalet School series.
For picture books? Richard Scarey - I still have a couple of my old big hardcovers, including one that was bilingual English/German. And Tootles the Taxi and other rhymes - I have my copy of that as well.
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Post by gar on Jul 21, 2024 21:47:51 GMT
As a young child I loved Ant and Bee and their adventures. I bought a couple of updated ones for my eldest grandson but they didn’t grab him. I’ll be trying them on the younger ones soon 😊
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Post by peabay on Jul 21, 2024 21:48:45 GMT
When I was around 5 or 6, I loved a book by Ogden Nash called "The Adventures of Isabel." I was an adult when I found out it was really an illustrated poem - but I thought it was so funny. The Adventures of Isabel
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 21, 2024 22:41:32 GMT
My all time favourite children's books were Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series. My dad used to read them to me, then when I could read, I read them myself. My two kids also loved them, and I read each book multiple times to both of them.
As an older child, 10-12yo, I loved The Famous Five and The Adventurous Four series, also by Enid Blyton. I also loved the Trixie Belden books.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 21, 2024 23:04:53 GMT
I loved the Boxcar children, Little house in the big woods (I have my childhood copy), and the Bobbsey Twins(I have one of the books from childhood).
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Post by melanell on Jul 21, 2024 23:07:30 GMT
When I was very young I adored Beatrix Potter.
When I got a bit older I read all the Little House on the Prairie books, all of the Wizard of Oz books, and all of the Nancy Drew books. I read some Hardy Boys, but I much preferred Nancy Drew.
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Post by snyder on Jul 21, 2024 23:12:41 GMT
Pipi Longstockings! She was my hero. Being a redhead myself and an adventurere, she was right up my alley. They were 12 books in all and written by Astrid Lindgren.
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Post by pjaye on Jul 21, 2024 23:31:40 GMT
My first favourites that I can remember were the Paddington Bear books and Charlotte's Web. Then The Anne Of Green Gables books. I always read a lot, but these ones stand out as ones that I loved and re-read often...even if Charlotte's Web made me cry every time! I still know the last paragraph off by heart.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 21, 2024 23:38:40 GMT
"Mister Popper's Penguins" "Goomer" "The Golden Egg Book" "The Littlest Angel"
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Post by zippythebird on Jul 21, 2024 23:54:55 GMT
I am forever grateful for my Mum making sure Myself & My sister had plenty of books growing up .
My favorites were anything by Enid Blyton particulary The St Clares & Malory Towers series, also The secret seven & Famous Five , Also Black Beauty was a firm favorite I would just devour books tbh I still do I currently have three books on the go
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 21, 2024 23:56:33 GMT
The Monster at the End of This Book and the Pokey Little Puppy.
Pippi Longstocking.
Baby-Sitters Club
Ramona Quimby books...
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Post by hutchfan on Jul 22, 2024 0:05:16 GMT
I always loved books about dogs. Clifford, Snoppy and Pokey Little Puppy were my favorite as a very young girl. My mom bought my sister and I a big book that had lots of little stories in it and my favorite story was about 2 parents that named their children after apples. As young girl I devoured all of the Little House series and Hardy Boys.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 22, 2024 0:16:08 GMT
The Phantom Tollbooth was my favorite book a teacher read aloud in class.
I love to read A Snowy Day to my son.
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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 22, 2024 0:21:17 GMT
I loved Ramona the Pest. I related to her dramatic troubles. hehe. I also loved Paddington the Bear. Those were my two favorite series. Of course, who didn't want to be Pippi Longstocking? Books kept me safe and they were comforting in a very unsafe world. I was a voracious reader until I had kids. Then I read w/my kids each day. I really need to start reading more often. So far, my favorite read as an adult, apart from anything Harry Potter would be Memoirs of a Geisha. That is such a great book and written w/such powerful emotion and you can imagine the characters and the scenery in which they live.
Currently, when yds comes to visit we pull out Fox in Sox. It's such a fun book and I didn't discover it until my kids were little. One of our favorite family moments from when they were little was making grandpa read Fox in Sox at warp speed.
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Post by smasonnc on Jul 22, 2024 0:21:19 GMT
Little Women was my favorite. I also liked the Island of the Blue Dolphins, A Wrinkle in Time, Johnny Tremain, and biographies...lots of biographies. I loved the Little House books until tv made them so treacly.
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Post by Tearisci on Jul 22, 2024 0:24:56 GMT
I was an avid reader very early and grew up with a love of books that still holds til today.
My favorite series growing up was The Great Brain series. I loved the characters a lot!
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Post by BGsMom on Jul 22, 2024 0:35:21 GMT
Picture Books- I love "The Monster at the End of the Book", The Sweet Pickles Collection, and Berenstain Bears. Then I loved the Betsy Books, Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, and the Babysitters Club. I was a big reader, so there were many more that I loved.
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Post by renny on Jul 22, 2024 4:32:45 GMT
Mine was Heidi.
My daughter's (34) favorite childhood books were the Betsy-Tacy series.
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Post by lainey on Jul 22, 2024 12:27:35 GMT
I had a set of Ladybird fairy tales that I read over and over, especially The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella, I loved Enid Blyton, my children's Bible (it had fabulous illustrations!).
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Post by gar on Jul 22, 2024 12:29:35 GMT
I am forever grateful for my Mum making sure Myself & My sister had plenty of books growing up . My favorites were anything by Enid Blyton particulary The St Clares & Malory Towers series, also The secret seven & Famous Five , Also Black Beauty was a firm favorite I would just devour books tbh I still do I currently have three books on the go I'd forgotten about Mallory Towers - great books
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Post by gramasue on Jul 22, 2024 12:43:41 GMT
I have always loved to read. As a child, I frequently got in trouble because instead of going to bed and to sleep, I would make what I called my.reading tent by using clothespins and clipping my bedspread to the curves on my iron headboard. I would then climb in with a book and flashlight so that I could continue my book without disturbing my younger sister who shared the bedroom with me. If my mom caught me, she would tell me I was going to ruin my eyesight and make me take my tent down. Favorite books were any of.the books my grandmother sent from Canada. They were stories that we didn’t have in our library here. A particular favorite were the adventure series books by English writer Enid Blyton. They were stories about a single mother with two children and their two best friends who were always with them. My parents were divorced at the time and I didn’t know any other children with a single mum so I identified with these books. My grandmother would send us each books for a birthday or Christmas. Both of my sisters would just toss the books aside and I don’t think they ever read a single one of them. I usually made a trade for them and would immediately sit down and read it in one session unless interrupted for some reason. I read them to my son when he was little and he loved them as much as I did. Another favorite was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read long before it was made into a movie. This was me! I can still remember reading Little Women in my little 'tent'. Another favourite was Grimm's Fairy Tales. I still have my copy of that one - very dog-eared and worn but a treasured memento of my childhood.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Jul 22, 2024 13:02:41 GMT
I loved reading as a kid, still do. The ones that immediately come to mind...
- Nate the Great - Berenstain Bears - A to Z Mysteries - Goosebumps - Bud, not Buddy - Sideways Stories from Wayside School - The Magic School Bus - Miss Nelson is Missing - Arthur - I Spy
I'm sure I'm missing a ton.
I have also for years been trying to remember a book's title, but to no avail. What little I remember about it is that it's about 2 young brothers who are sent west to California in search of their uncle. In one chapter, they see a man in a crowd with a Chinese girlfriend. It's later discovered that that man is their uncle.
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Post by h2ohdog on Jul 22, 2024 13:15:41 GMT
I still have some of my (very young) childhood books on top of Mr bookshelf: Ferdinand Charlotte’s Web Winnie the Pooh House at Pooh Corner Now We Are Six When We Were Very Young Alice in Wonderland All still have handmade, taped-in slots for “signing out” of my “library,” complete with yellowed scotch tape. Ancient classics! ETA: Lexica I LOVED the image if you in your reading tent! Also, I don’t know how I got ahold of them, but I read Enid Blyton, too and loved them.
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Post by momx1 on Jul 22, 2024 13:37:38 GMT
I was another one reading with a flashlight under the covers!!
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Hitty: Her First Hundred Years.
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Post by disneypal on Jul 22, 2024 13:50:16 GMT
Several but my favorite was the first book in The Boxcar Children series
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Post by pilcas on Jul 22, 2024 14:02:40 GMT
I don’t recall any childhood favorites. As a tween I read all the Nancy Drew books. When my kids were young I loved the Junes B Jones book series. The humor and all the school situations narrated from a child’s point of view were just amazingly good.
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