Favorite Childhood Book

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.

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.

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 😊

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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!

Mine was Heidi. 

My daughter's (34) favorite childhood books were the Betsy-Tacy series. 

I'd forgotten about Mallory Towers - great books 

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.

I was another one reading with a flashlight under the covers!!

One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Hitty: Her First Hundred Years.