Favorite Childhood Books

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

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.

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."

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.)

SaintSunniva : I have never liked it - too weird, too scary, the queen, the cat, the hookah...Alice herself.

ahef1963 : Not a huge fan of it. I found it more creepy than anything.

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

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.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

timspalding : Scared me. Seemed needlessly cruel. I still feel this way.

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

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.

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

sturlington : Tedious.

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

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

ahef1963: Oh, Reepicheep and the waters that run sweet, I always wanted to join you.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

timspalding: I remember the revelation that his tutor was a half-dwarf as… mind-blowing!

ahef1963 : I don't like stories being told within stories, and this book had far too much of that.

Bookish59: Loved to read English books; still do.

timspalding : Spooky.

ahef1963: My favourite of the Little House books.

Diane-bpcb: This was my favorite of the Little House books, which I just loved. My sister and I would play covered wagon, using our twin beds as our wagons, etc. Little did we know, in those days, that ancestors had gone West in a wagon train.

ahef1963: The conclusion of this novel thrills me to this day.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

ahef1963: This was my son's favourite story. He asked for it over and over.

Diane-bpcb: Believe that this was read to me. The determined engine made me happy.

ahef1963: Not a book I would give to children; I find it frightening even as an adult, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

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

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

sturlington : Did not read until college.