Favorite Childhood Books

sturlington: My father read it aloud to me when I was 5 or 6. It's a wonderful memory.

Drapetsona: actually, I never read it as a child. I wish I had.

anglemark: The winter landscape on the other side of the wardrobe has haunted my imagination all my life.

sturlington: Meg is the first heroine I wanted to emulate.

ahef1963: Loved this book. It's probably the first fantasy book I ever read and re-read.

merrystar : I never liked this one for some reason

Diane-bpcb: A friend, who had taught grade school got me to read this finally. How did I miss it all these years!! (We read "Stuart Little instead in school, which I also loved.)

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

ahef1963: A great favourite of my children, to whom I read it countless times.

ahef1963: A childhood favourite; I read it so often that the spine fell apart.

Diane-bpcb: MAJOR SPOILER: (Haven't figured out the new Spoiler offering in LT.) Will never forget reading somewhere something by a girl who always fought with her sister, and how she felt when this sister, having read the book first, calls out, "Beth died."

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

deslivres5: I grew up in NYC and wanted to have that same adventure in the museum with MY younger brother.

ahef1963: Because of this book I took my young children to museums, where we always had fun planning where we'd hide out if we lived there.

deslivres5: I remember loving the passages where she would eat fresh cheese when in the mountains. Yum!

fuzzi : Depressing stories. The only one I liked was The Tinder Box.

aulsmith : I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. I do not, do not. There I am

sturlington : Tedious.

ahef1963: I cried so much over this book. Such a beautiful work.

timspalding : Spooky. I think I read it too young.

ahef1963: One of the best children's books out there.

SaintSunniva: My mother read it to us...and I subsequently read all the Little House books.

ahef1963: The Little House books were the background to all my childhood and early adolescent fantasies. I still want to ride in a covered wagon.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

TCate: Discovered this in my late teens. A boy I used to baby-sit introduced me to the book.

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

Nycticebus: I loved the gentle bull, but more, I loved to trace the beautiful drawings.

sturlington: All-time favorite.

aulsmith : My younger sister's favorite. Got boring quickly.

ahef1963: My favourite Dr. Seuss book! Do you like my hat?

ahef1963: Frog and Toad still give me the giggles. I'm in my 50s.

sturlington : My 4th grade teacher reading this while putting on bright red lipstick is a traumatic memory for me.

Diane-bpcb: Loved this E.B. White book, which we read in school. Don't remember much about it.

sturlington: Duplicate

timspalding: I should put more non-fiction on the list. This one was great.

ahef1963 : Raggedy Ann (and Andy) dolls scared me as a child and still do.

Diane-bpcb: This was read to me. I adored my cloth and yarn Raggedly Ann so much, that listening to her stories allowed me to enjoy her all the more.

timspalding: I loved this as a kid. It doesn't hold up.

Bookish59: Loved to read English books; still do.

ahef1963: I wanted to run away and live in a tree.

timspalding: The most humane Tintin.

ahef1963: I loved this book. My father read it to me as a child, and made up a tune to sing parts of it. Great memories.