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Post by jenr on Jul 22, 2024 19:21:15 GMT
I was an avid reader as a child. I loved the Boxcar Children, Betsy Tacy and Tib, the Little House books, the Misty of Chincoteague books, and later, Nancy Drew. Good memories.
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Post by scraphappy0501 on Jul 22, 2024 23:14:57 GMT
I was a voracious reader as a child. Our local library had to give me special permission to check out more than 2 books at a time because I would go through them so quickly! My all time favorites were the Little House books. I loved Little House in the Big Woods and talked about it all the time. I still remember how excited I was when Aunt Judy gave me the entire set of Little House books for my 9th birthday. I read and re-read them until they were dog-eared and falling apart. I still have them stored away somewhere.
Other favorite books - the All of a Kind Family series, anything by Beverly Cleary and the Betsy-Tacy series.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 22, 2024 23:17:07 GMT
Probably Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss when I was really young. When I was old enough to read myself, I read all of the Little House books and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe multiple times because the elementary school library didn’t have a ton of great books. I also loved a book of poetry that my sister had.
My kid’s favorite childhood book was “Potty” LOL. It was one of just a handful of books she wouldn’t let me give away after she outgrew it.
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Post by flanz on Jul 22, 2024 23:29:43 GMT
I loved Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Homer Price and Ramona / Beezus Quimby.
With our kids we loved The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Roald Dahl - Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and more.
Also loved the Don and Audrey Wood books. She wrote, he illustrated. Silly Sally is one that's fun for little ones.
I could go on and one... I love children's books.
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Post by seaexplore on Jul 23, 2024 2:30:04 GMT
The Cable Car and the Dragon
Alexandra the Rock Eater
The Book of Giant Stories
Nana Upstairs and Nana Down Stairs
I read anything I could get my hands on. Trixie Belden series, The Babysitters Club series, all of the Anne of Green Gables books (I wanted to be her so badly!), all of the Little House on the Prairie books, anything by John Bellairs, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Westing Game, soooo many more! My parents would take me to the library and leave me in the kids area for HOURS. I loved it.
By the time I was in 7th grade I started on Stephen King, Anne Rice and the like.
Now? I hardly ever read books. I love them but I always find other stuff to do.
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Post by tenacious on Jul 23, 2024 5:47:59 GMT
Mine was
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein.
I found immense comfort in that book. I still have my childhood copy, and I still read it sometimes.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jul 23, 2024 10:40:34 GMT
I was a huge reader as a kid. I had a lot of favorites and could read books over and over if I really loved them.
I am never able to a pick a ‘favorite’ anything because there is too much out there that I like. 😄
That being said…the Trixie Belden books could be the closest thing to an all time favorite (other than WKRP. In Cincinnati is definitely my all time favorite TV show) that I had/have.
As a small kid…The Teddy Bear Twins and The Pokey Little Puppy were a couple of favorites. I also had a couple of the Richard Scarry big books that I really liked.
I also remember liking Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator).
Harriet the Spy would be on the favorites list also.
Loved all the Little House on the Prairie series.
Loved all the Great Brain books and All the Encyclopedia Brown books.
Loved all the Beverly Cleary books.
James and the Giant Peach and Danny the Champion of the World were 2 of my favorite Roald Dahl books.
I remember loving Nancy and Plum and read that as many times as I could in the time I had it checked out from the library.
Sorry for so many, as I said just too many loved books to a pick just one or even just a couple.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Jul 23, 2024 12:21:33 GMT
Little Black, A Pony by Walter Farley before I could read. Later, The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley was a favorite when I could read on my own.
I enjoyed Nancy Drew, The Boxcar Children, and many others mentioned here. Honestly, I read everything I could get my hands on.
My very favorite childhood book would probably be Island of the Blue Dolphins.
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Post by candygurl on Jul 23, 2024 12:55:27 GMT
Cam Jansen Mysteries
Berenstein Bears
Roxaboxen
Gwenna
Nancy Drew Mysteries
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Post by peano on Jul 23, 2024 13:31:54 GMT
I loved horse books, particularly the Marguerite Henry books and The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. In grade school, I was fascinated by The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I loved that it was set in NYC and in a museum, and I think it may have played a part in why I ended up in the northeast. The Witch of Blackbird Pond was another favorite. I never really read Nancy Drew, but my best friend's mother had the entire Judy Bolton detective girl series and I enjoyed those.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jul 23, 2024 14:20:47 GMT
Love this thread.
I posted before I read so I would put down the first that came to mind, although a lot of other single books popped in my mind I tried to go with the ones that were series or that were not as common.
But after now reading everyone’s responses, so many of you included books that I loved. Some of which I was going to add but was trying to edit myself (ya right. 😉😆 ) and some I just forgot about until I saw them listed in other posts.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 24, 2024 1:16:43 GMT
I went through phases
R.L. Stein Beverly Cleary Judy Blume Robert Kimmel Smith Chronicles of Narnia Cynthia Voight The Babysitter's Club Lois Duncan Newbery award winners
Lots of older picture books that ranged many years and a couple were problematic. My grandma was a retired school teacher.
I went through a phase where I read books about girls in different time periods in America. It was way before American Girl. Each book was the character's name. For some reason, I can only remember Joanna.
I remember a few books that were on the dramatic side. Someone being diagnosed with cancer, someone dying. I can't think of the author's name!
My overall favorites were scary, but not too scary.
I did just think of this one. You can not get more 80's than this! A walkman and a cabbage patch doll. |
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Post by snyder on Jul 24, 2024 1:30:14 GMT
My son loved the Bernstein Bear books, any thing Richard Scarry and the The Velveteen Rabbit.
But is most favorite was Lady and the Tramp. We had a set of audio books, but that kid would lay in the floor and listen to that particular story over and over and over while flipping though the book.
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Post by Karene on Jul 24, 2024 2:27:05 GMT
I don't remember books from when I was very little, but I loved to read as a kid and still do.
I was really into Trixie Beldon when I was 11 or 12. I also loved horse books, and girls during the pioneer times, and England in earlier times.
Then I got into mysteries and teenage books like Go Ask Alice and The Outsiders.
Right now I'm into British detective novels and pretty much any British/Scottish/Irish fiction writer.
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Post by oh yvonne on Jul 25, 2024 16:55:16 GMT
I was obsessed with books, learned to read really early and could never get enough. My grandma had a doctor who had a little table and children's books in the waiting room and I'd get so excited when she had an appointment. There was a book called Three Little Ponies, they had huge blue eyes who pretended to be princesses and I was obsessed with that book. I was really young, not in school yet.
I had a summer school teacher in between 4th and 5th grade who had a wonderful collection of Newbury Award books and she'd give them to me one at a time and I devoured them. I loved Julie of the Wolves and Witches of Worm. She introduced me to all of Zilpha Keatley's books, The Egypt Game, Black and Blue Magic, Headless Cupid and The Velvet Room which was absolutely my favorite, about an Okie family during the depression who moves to California. She discovers an abandoned mansion with a library full of books and it's her escape from the misery of the migrant camp.
My mom subscribed to a book club of Nancy Drew books for me, I got two books every month and those were so much fun to get in the mail, it was like Christmas all year.
I read The Diary of Anne Frank in 7th grade and it affected me profoundly.
So many books, I could go on and on.
Anyone else also in love with magazines? Highlights, then Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and Fave. Dynamite from the Scholastic book club. Then there was Seventeen, Glamour....
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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 25, 2024 18:43:34 GMT
Mine was Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein. I found immense comfort in that book. I still have my childhood copy, and I still read it sometimes. "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out She'd scour the pots and scrub the pans Candy the yams and spice the hams And though her daddy would scream and shout She simply would not take the garbage out"
This was one of the first things I read to my kids. I just love this book and made sure that my Ods had a copy before he was born.
oh yvonne, I attended an author/illustrator festival when I was 9. I got to meet so many of my favorite authors. I met Beverly Cleary and thought it was Nirvana. |
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Post by monicad on Jul 25, 2024 19:05:27 GMT
The Boxcar Children, The Snowy Day, Harold and the Purple Crayon, all of the Frances books (the little badger), and Little House on the Prairie. Oh, and Ramona!
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Post by monicad on Jul 25, 2024 19:07:36 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. Oh, I loved the Grover book and read it to my kids as well! 🥰 And Sweet Pickles…that was a favorite! |
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Post by papersilly on Jul 25, 2024 20:54:03 GMT
in elementary, i loved Harriet the Spy and all of the Encyclopedia Brown books. junior high was the Judy Blume Books. The book Flowers for Algernon broke my heart to this day.
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Post by pinkgreen on Jul 25, 2024 23:09:19 GMT
This is fun to read! I was an early reader and read a ton! Some of you mentioned titles that brought back memories. I read the LIttle House series multiple times and really *know* those books. As an adult, I’ve done a deep dive on the background of Wilder with all the biographies and a really well researched podcast.
Today kid books are my job! I’m an elementary librarian, so I get to see what’s popular now.
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Post by oh yvonne on Jul 26, 2024 14:59:09 GMT
Do any of you remember when we were all reading The Amityville Horror and Flowers in the Attic in high school? We were all passing around the book copies to each other.
oh, and Sybil was big in jr. high, but we had to hide we were passing that book around. I read it and omg it freaked me out, but I'm not regretful I read it. A teacher spotted me with it and she questioned me reading it. She told me 'well, that's a really heavy book". I was a little scared I would get in trouble but of course, she didn't comment further. She was a good teacher.
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 26, 2024 15:12:03 GMT
I loved encyclopedia brown and Nancy drew. I had the pocket collection of abridged classics that I devoured: Robinson Crusoe, a Connecticut yankee in king Arthur’s court…my two best friends and I would take our parents books and share them. One’s mom read bodice ripper romance, the other’s mom read true crime or true crime inspired. In third grade we read CUPPI (circumstances undetermined pending police investigation, about a teen prostitute pushed out a high rise window. Full of graphic details about the autopsy. My parents would’ve been horrified if they knew). My dad read historical fiction like John Jakes North and south series. In fourth grade I read the hobbit and have been on a fantasy/sci fi adventure since. I read all the Anne McCaffery’s after that. Flowers in the attic and handmaids tale was probably about 8th grade. We’d walk to the library, heck out a stack of books and then go read on the playground at school with snacks. Good times!
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 26, 2024 15:17:21 GMT
Harry the Dirty Dog and Never Tease a Weasel are two that come to mind!
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Post by deekaye on Jul 26, 2024 17:08:59 GMT
Anne of Green Gables was my favorite series. My favorite single book was The Mallory Burn. This made me so want to be a forest ranger (no, I didn't become one).
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 28, 2024 18:14:49 GMT
I loved the Amelia Bedelia books. They were so silly.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 28, 2024 18:26:17 GMT
So many favorites on this thread! I also read a ton as my mom only allowed us to watch an hour of tv a week (PBS excluded).
The Little House series
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
Chronicles of Narnia
Black Beauty
Grimes Fairy Tales
Anything Judy Blume…I got a big shock when I checked out Wifey. 😊
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Post by huskergal on Jul 29, 2024 15:58:10 GMT
Where the Wild Things Are
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