What was your favorite book from childhood

[LynneSin]

For me, it always and always will be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I first read that book in first grade and I must have read the book at least 100 times.

What was your favorite book from childhood!

[Theres-a]

1. Ferdinand the bull

He just wanted to smell the flowers.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and Choose Your Own Adventure books.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Same here Lynn!

as well as many other Roald Dahl books...those were the best!

[JimmyJazz]

4. Harriet the Spy and later, the Outsiders.

[intheflow]

27. I just re-read Harriet the Spy

binging on children's lit before the HP book came out. I have to re-read The Outsiders now that I have finished HP. :) The Outsiders was probably one of the most influential books of my teen years; I can still recite Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by heart.

[intheflow]

28. self-delete

Meant to post to OP.

[jandrok]

5. Winnie -The - Pooh!

The House on Pooh Corner was my childhood fave. Still a classic.

[GOPFighter]

11. Ditto!

I loved that book when I was little.

[Zenaholic]

6. Hope For The Flowers (n/t)

[Obamarama]

7. The Boxcar Children series...

These books really captured my imagination and are responsible for getting me hooked on reading.

The Boxcar Children is a book series by American writer Gertrude Chandler Warner; it is also the title of the first book in the series. Originally published in 1942, the books told the story of four orphans (Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny), who came to a small town Greenfield and settled in an abandoned boxcar. Within the first book, their rich Grandfather found them and brougt them to live with him. They insisted that he bring the boxcar, and so it was taken and brought to the house along with the children. Throughout the rest of the books thereafter, the children uncover and solve various mysteries, often whilst traveling.
(from Wikipedia)

http://www.boxcarchildren.com/index.cfm?alias=boxcarchildren

[Pool Hall Ace]

8. Charlotte's Web !

some runners up:
'Understood Betsy' by Dorothy Canfield
'Julie of the Wolves' by Jean Craighead George

[flamingyouth]

39. Charlotte's Web for me too

[madaboutharry]

9. The Secret Garden

I did see Charlie and The Chocolate Factory yesterday and I loved it. I am thinking of reading the book.

[auburngrad82]

10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Brighty of the Grand Canyon

[noonwitch]

12. The "Little House" books

I read them all. I never really liked the tv show all that much, but loved the books.

[cornfedyank]

13. harold and the purple crayon

[yewberry]

50. Oh, I'd forgotten that one!

I loved that. Hmmm, now I know what to get my nephew. Thanks!

[Saphire]

14. Island of the Blue Dolphin...it's the one that got me reading.

I also gave the book to my daughter at 11 years old. She loved it, and as a result, I think, is an avid reader now.

[Brewman_Jax]

15. Encyclopedia Brown series

great set of books. Teaches the reader to think. :think:

[tyedyeto]

16. Nancy Drew mysteries

Then all the Mark Twain books starting with Tom Sawyer.

(Am I showing my age here? :shrug: )

[diddlysquat]

17. The OZ series.

[RandomKoolzip]

47. Me too.

Very mind-expanding and psychedelic illustrations for children, too. Good stuff.

[ET Awful]

18. That's a tough one :) Charlie and the Chocolate Factors was good but

I also loved the Phantom Tollbooth, the Neverending Story, the entire Oz series (the L. Frank Baum ones anyway, the others weren't very good) and a few dozen others :)

[MissMillie]

19. The Phantom Tollbooth

loved it.

[ET Awful]

20. Hehehe, see my post directly above yours :)

One of my favorites too.

[MissMillie]

21. We have so much in common!

We both have beautiful cats, we live in the Northeast, we like the Phantom Tollbooth.....

Are you my sockpuppet?

[ET Awful]

23. I don't think so :)

Then again, I've been wrong before :evilgrin:

[kmla]

22. A Wrinkle in Time....

I bet I've read that book 25 times over the years...

[ET Awful]

24. Oooooh, good one :) n/t

[WCGreen]

54. Did you see the ABC Disney movie last year...

It was pretty good although they tending to drag out some stuff...

I loved that book as a child....

Read it as an adult and still loved it....

I just may read it again before the summer is over...

[seemunkee]

25. Conan the Barbarian series and The Hobbit

[ET Awful]

26. More that I forgot . . . The original Dr. Dolittle books, and

Pippi Longstocking too, those were fun :). I was a bookaholic from a young age :).

[intheflow]

29. The Witch of Blackbird Pond & Calico Captive

Both by Elizabeth George Speares. Both were set in New England, not far from where I grew up. These books made me feel connected to the past, and instilled in me a life-long love of historical fiction.

[Mikimouse]

30. The Burgess book of Nature Stories....n/t

[caty]

31. "Half Magic"

By Edgar Eager. First book I read that I just couldn't put down.

[Bridget Burke]

41. According to Amazon, a 50th Anniversary Edition has been released.

It was one of my favorites, too. But his other books are pretty fine, as well. They have benefited from the Harry Potter hoohah--the publisher has been promoting them since they realized there's money in children's books.

[caty]

42. I would liket get a set

to give to my future grandchildren.

[coffeenap]

32. Little Bear...first pick at the library every time from age 3...nt

[kick-ass-bob]

33. Argh! I can't remember the name - but I know you will - another Dahl book

the one about the kid and his dad, where the dad gets trapped while pheasant hunting - what was that one called?

[kick-ass-bob]

34. Duh - look it up dumbass. "Danny, the Champion of the World"

[youthere]

35. "Chronicles of Narnia" and the "Wrinkle in Time" series. n/t

[El Fuego]

36. "Through the Looking Glass"

[miss_american_pie]

37. Bridge to Terabithia, nt.

[silvermachine]

38. My Side Of The Mountain...

...by Jean Craighead George, with A Wrinkle in Time up there as well. Oh yeah, loved 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith also.

[WCGreen]

53. Two of favorite books

My Side and Wrinkle...


Did you see the movie they mae out of My Side....

The kid was just insufferable

[Rising Phoenix]

40. Little Women

[catbert836]

43. Woot!

Charlie as well!

[spinbaby]

44. The Enid Byton Adventure books

There was a whole series of them--the Sea of Adventure, Island of Adventure, Valley of Adventure, Castle of Adventure, etc. They were in my town's library. Don't know how they go there because, when I went looking for them as an adult, I discovered they were apparently only published in the UK. They were often terribly racist books, but this totally escaped me when I read them as a child.

There was also an obscure 1960s SF book called "The City Underground" which I reread compusively for a year or two. When I tracked it down again as an adult it turned out to be really pretty awful. Oh well.


Also, lots of Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Happy Hollisters...all those series.

[LynneSin]

45. The other book I loved: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

I heard they're making a movie out of that one too!

[Lorien]

46. The Prydain chonicles, The Hobbit, books by Felix Saltan

(who authored "Bambi") and Robert Lawson. I also loved Bill Peet's books as a young child.

[LibertyLover]

48. Favorite childhood book

A book called The Lost Queen of Egypt. It was a novel about the pharaoh Akhenaten and the Amarna period. I wound up doing my first master's thesis on the Amarna period. A few years ago, before the kidlet arrived, I went on Alibris and bought a copy of it for $70 or $80 and have happily re-read it.

[Z_I_Peevey]

49. Lions in the Way

I think it is out of print now.

[WCGreen]

51. The Story of O......

Hey, I got into sex early

Seriously, Wrinkle in Time and My Side of the Mountain were two of my favorites and there was also a series of Books called Gone Away Lake.......

[Salviati]

52. Since it's not up here yet: "The Dark is Rising"

(or at least not in the subject lines)

There were so many good ones, it's hard to pick just one, but needed to see this one on the list.

[NMMNG]

55. I can't choose just one

I loved the Little House series, Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz and scores of other books. I've been an utter bibliophile since age four.