and the Faraway Tree!!!
I just loved
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Favorite books when you were a kid?
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I just loved
The Wrinkle in Time series, The Dark is Rising Series, and The Belgariad and the Mallorean series by David Eddings. (I have a thing for series.) My cuurent favorites are the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I don't like smut novels, but these are historical fiction with some romance, very good. ::
:: the main guy is the perfect man!
Guess I was deprived as a child (my parents didn't buy us many books).
My favorite from recollection was " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
When my own children were little I was a book addict. . . .
I love Chris Van Alsburg (Jumanji, Polar Express, etc). He's such a creative writer and the drawings are awesome.
In highschool I enjoyed
"A Tree Grows in Brookland"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"The Chocolate War"
"I am the Cheese"
"The Belljar"
My favorite from recollection was " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
When my own children were little I was a book addict. . . .
I love Chris Van Alsburg (Jumanji, Polar Express, etc). He's such a creative writer and the drawings are awesome.
In highschool I enjoyed
"A Tree Grows in Brookland"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"The Chocolate War"
"I am the Cheese"
"The Belljar"
I can't believe I misspelled Brooklyn!!! Duh. . . . .Originally Posted by Kiwideus
I LOVE a tree grows in brooklyn - i have a first edition copy of the book here.Thanks to my poppa who introduced me to the story.
As a young child I loved
Enid Blyton
Black Beauty
All kinds of Poetry
Nature books
Rupert the Bear
Fairy Stories
I used to like books that we called rainy day books where you could interact with book with puzzles, quizzes etc.
As an older child I loved
Shakespeare, my favourite being As You Like It. I still love Shakespeare
Poetry
Dickens
True stories of animals.
The Little Women series
Fantasy Books.
Enid Blyton
Black Beauty
All kinds of Poetry
Nature books
Rupert the Bear
Fairy Stories
I used to like books that we called rainy day books where you could interact with book with puzzles, quizzes etc.
As an older child I loved
Shakespeare, my favourite being As You Like It. I still love Shakespeare
Poetry
Dickens
True stories of animals.
The Little Women series
Fantasy Books.
Yea the Faraway tree was awesome as well!
Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, Pippi Longstocking books....
and (I am ashamed to admit), this book series called Disaster! which talked about Fires, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Floods, etc.
I loved those "choose your own adventure" books too. Anyone remember those?
and (I am ashamed to admit), this book series called Disaster! which talked about Fires, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Floods, etc.
I loved those "choose your own adventure" books too. Anyone remember those?
Oh gosh I forgot about the Ramona books! Add that to my list
Oh my, let's see...
Anything by Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume
The Baby-sitter's Club and Sweet Valley High
Charlotte's Web
Pippi Longstocking
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
For picture books, I loved:
The Velveteen Rabbit
Dr. Seuss
The Monster at the end of the Book
I also had a non-fiction book about, and this will probably be a shock to no one, cats that I loved!
Anything by Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume
The Baby-sitter's Club and Sweet Valley High
Charlotte's Web
Pippi Longstocking
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
For picture books, I loved:
The Velveteen Rabbit
Dr. Seuss
The Monster at the end of the Book
I also had a non-fiction book about, and this will probably be a shock to no one, cats that I loved!
When I was in elementary school they used to have this tv show where a man would do pastel drawings of the story as he told it...and we would all gather in a dark classroom and sit indian style on the floor and listen and watch as the story unfolded in front of us.
One story that I never forgot reading was very sad "A Bridge to Terribithia" (sp?) It was about the two hunting dogs that a young boy owned, and I don't remember what happened to them, I think on was attacked by a wild animal...but it died, it was SO sad. I think I read that in 3rd or 4th grade.
I especially loved the Chronicles of Narnia..The lion the withch and the wardrobe was one of my favorites.
Also as a very young child one of my favorite books was one illustrated by Maurice Sendak called Let's be Friends, Let's be enemies. It was so cute!
I actually collect a lot of Maurice Sendak's children's books now. (collect all sorts of books, but of the children's book genre, he is the one I like as an adult)
Loved Shel Silverstein--A Light in the Attic, aWhere the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and the other books of poetry he did. (met him at a writers conference in Bremerton, WA when I was young...many years before he died..he was amazing!!)
One story that I never forgot reading was very sad "A Bridge to Terribithia" (sp?) It was about the two hunting dogs that a young boy owned, and I don't remember what happened to them, I think on was attacked by a wild animal...but it died, it was SO sad. I think I read that in 3rd or 4th grade.
I especially loved the Chronicles of Narnia..The lion the withch and the wardrobe was one of my favorites.
Also as a very young child one of my favorite books was one illustrated by Maurice Sendak called Let's be Friends, Let's be enemies. It was so cute!
I actually collect a lot of Maurice Sendak's children's books now. (collect all sorts of books, but of the children's book genre, he is the one I like as an adult)
Loved Shel Silverstein--A Light in the Attic, aWhere the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and the other books of poetry he did. (met him at a writers conference in Bremerton, WA when I was young...many years before he died..he was amazing!!)
