Question Of The Day - Tuesday, October 9

[cassiopea]

Hello Hello! Hope everyone is well today





What's your favorite childhood book?




I loved the Adventure of Tintin series and Asterix. I spent many weekends chilling on my grandmama's couch for hours eating fudgesicles and getting lost in adventures


Another favourite was The Princess in the Tower (Used to be called The Dark Tower) by Sharon Stewart. Other the the above mentioned, it was the only book I reread at the time. It's from the perspective of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI during the French Revolution. I remember being quite riveted and glued to the novel. Even sneaking it in during class!


I was also big on reading up on Dinosaurs, Ancient Greece/Rome/Egypt and Astronomy. But as for actual beloved titles those were it.



Now you guys!

 

[betsygee]

The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien. It is a fantasy/science fiction kids' book. From Goodreads: "A book about love, courage, and doing the crazy thing - despite what everybody else thinks."

The story stuck with me so much that years later, even though I couldn't remember the name of the book, I tracked it down from googling parts of the story line, and bought myself another copy.

Now there's a website for tracking down book titles from memories: Stump the Bookseller | New format, same book stumper solving.

 

[verna davies]

I loved the Famous Five books and also The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. I still have that book.

 

[bodester413]

I loved Charlotte's Web. There was a science fiction book called House of Stairs by William Sleator that totally blew my mind. The librarian in our grade school would help us pick out books sometimes and I remember her telling me I wasn't old enough to read it, but I checked it out anyways. It was the first sci-fi I remember reading. Watership Down by Richard Adams also made a huge impression on me.

 

[kashmir64]

When I was little I loved the Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. Even the sub series with Flame on Azul Island (don't remember the name though)
But in High School, one of my required reading books was Alas Babylon by Pat Frank, and it remains one of my favorite books.
I also really liked the Juxtaposition-Blue Adept series by Piers Anthony.

 

[Willowy]

I read a LOT as a kid. I started reading when I was 3 1/2 and never stopped . I went through the entire kids' section at the library and moved on to the adult section. I read so many that I can't remember which ones were best!

I do love Kate Seredy books, especially The Chestry Oak. I also went through the entire list of Newbery winners and honors, and there are a ton of great books in there. I re-read The Westing Game often, even now. I don't even know why that's my favorite but it is. The Giver also made a big impression on me (not the movie, nooooo!).

 

[Kat0121]

The Velveteen Rabbit is #1. After that, I think the Nancy Drew series. DH found a big box of them in a thrift store years ago and I still have them. Not all of them but a lot. Some in duplicate.

 

[aliceneko]

I think the Felicity Wishes series was probably my favourite and Milly Molly Mandy.

 

[Lari]

I loved the Phantom Toolbooth by Norton Juster.

And I also read a ton of historical fiction.

 

[kashmir64]

The Velveteen Rabbit is #1. After that, I think the Nancy Drew series. DH found a big box of them in a thrift store years ago and I still have them. Not all of them but a lot. Some in duplicate.

I preferred the Hardy Boys more than Nancy Drew for some reason.

 

[denice]

I remember the Nancy Drew series. I also read a book in 5th grade, I don't remember the title of the book, that was a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell. She was the first woman in the U.S. to graduate from medical school. She received her medical degree in 1849 and was at the top of her class.

 

[Tobermory]

I read everything I could get my hands on when I was small, and one of my favorite memories is of going to the library with my mom and staggering home with a stack of books. If I had to choose one from early childhood, though, it would be Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

 

[1 bruce 1]

Tom Sawyer.

I even liked the Disney movie they made with that Home Improvement kid. I thought it was really cute even though I didn't see it for a few years after it came out.

 

[1 bruce 1]

I read a LOT as a kid. I started reading when I was 3 1/2 and never stopped . I went through the entire kids' section at the library and moved on to the adult section. I read so many that I can't remember which ones were best!

I do love Kate Seredy books, especially The Chestry Oak. I also went through the entire list of Newbery winners and honors, and there are a ton of great books in there. I re-read The Westing Game often, even now. I don't even know why that's my favorite but it is. The Giver also made a big impression on me (not the movie, nooooo!).

I read early, too. I started reading cookbooks!
I think my parents were encouraged by this but when I turned out to be a low brow dweeb...well...
but I still love to read. I still read kids books I read as a kid because that factor of remembering is so strong.

The Giver was AMAZING. It came up on my suggested lists a year or two ago and I read it...and was kind of blown away. It's a "kids" book, but not something I'd hand a 7 year old. Teenager, absolutely.
I haven't seen the movie. I've got personal respect for your tastes W Willowy and probably won't bother. The movie is rarely as good as the book!

 

[neely]

I always loved animal theme books especially Lassie Come Home.

 

[maggiedemi]

When I was really little, I loved the Little Golden Books. We used to get one once a week at the grocery store. When I was a little older, I liked The Babysitter's Club, since I loved babies & kids.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

For picture books I *loved* Bunnies and their Hobbies by Nancy Carlson and Harold and the Purple Crayon. I checked out the bunnies book a few years ago and my parents could still recite it after 25 years, that's how much I loved that book.

For chapter books, at work I always like to recommend The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin and Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I loved all the Little House on the Prairie books. Most were my mother's copies but I still have them today. I started reading one to my DD a few years ago and she loved it too.

I was very into the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard. I was sad when she passed away a few years ago without telling us who Mandie grew up to become. I read a lot of The Babysitters Club books also.

 

[LTS3]

I loved all the Little House on the Prairie books.

I read a lot of The Babysitters Club books also.

I recently read an autobiographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a book about a "Little House" fan who spent an entire summer traveling to all the Little House sites and museums and even making recipes from the Little House cookbook.

 

[jcat]

Another vote for Charlotte's Web and the Black Stallion series. I also loved the My Friend Flicka books.