favorite books you read/remember from childhood

[BlaqueKatt]

mine would have to be the "big red" series by Jim Kjelgaard
Big Red
Irish Red
Outlaw red

Most of his books were about dogs, but I loved the Big red series mainly because the dogs I grew up with were Irish Setters, and my dog was named after the setter in outlaw red.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron

I loved the Little House on the Prairie series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

The Danny Dunn books (Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams)

the Pippi Longstocking books by (and I didn't know this till just now) Astrid Lindgren again. No wonder I liked it so much.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Definitely the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I even grew up watching the tv series . . .

Another favorite was the Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott

And several of the books by Beverly Cleary (Otis Spofford, Mitch and Amy, Ramona the Pest)

And Judy Blume . . . no childhood is complete unless you get to read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. I also liked Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great and Blubber.

But then I also liked more grown up stuff too . . .I was reading adult books by the time I was in the 5th grade . . .

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
My Enemy The Queen by Victoria Holt
The Moneychangers by Alex Haley

Yeah, I was a weird child . . . I could read the age-appropriate stuff and adult novels and tell you what was going on.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

When I finally obtain a Kindle, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be one of the first books going on it.

At least one of the Little House On The Prairie also.

Read me, for I have typed.

[pssorens]

My Side of the Mountain and it's sequels

The Cricket in Times Square and it's sequels

[Mishi]

> Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
> Little Women series - Louisa May Alcott
> The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis
> The Anne series - L.M Montgomery
> The Katy series - Susan Coolidge
> Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkein
> The Song of The Lioness series - Tamora Pierce
> The Immortals series - Tamora Pierce
> The School in the Skies - R. S. Lyons
> All of the Diana Wynne Jones novels
> Coral Island - R. M. Ballentyne
> 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
> The Trixie Belden series - various authors
> Grimms Fairytales
> Clive Cussler's novels
> Dick Francis' novels
(Most of these were on the 'Evil' List, yay for my school library and being extra-stealthy )

[Eireann]

How funny! I read many of the same things:

The Little House series.

Pippi Longstocking, most certainly. I loved the character, and still do; she's a great role model for little girls.

Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume.

My Side of the Mountain and A Cricket in Times Square.

When I Was Jersey, by James Playsted Wood. Charming book about a little boy, Abner, whose parents, though loving, don't really connect with him. The only person who really understands him is his Aunt Jane, with whom he stays when his parents are sent to France for ten months. Jane is fully sympathetic with Abner's goal to become a cow when he grows up.

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh. I loved Harriet's independence, motivation, and determination to find out more about people. I've never liked Fitzhugh's illustrations, though.

I read all the Great Brain books when I was a kid, but now, I can see what a thoroughly reprehensible child Tom Fitzgerald was. Why on earth did his parents let him get away with all that?

[Cookie]

Bah! What a great thread! I wanna have kids just to read them my favorite books!

The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lots of books by Louisa May Alcott, not just Little Women
Little Britches and the sequels by Ralph Moody
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale

For younger kids:

Henry's Awful Mistake by Robert Quackenbush
The Monster at the End of the Book - Sesame Street
Winnie the Pooh, the complete stories. (My mom has this in one large, amazing volume in a box of wonderful books labeled "For the grandkids".)

[AnaKhouri]

Marguerite Henry's horse books (yeah, I was that horse-crazy girl), especially King of the Wind.

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence.

Black Beauty, my copy is literally falling apart!

Treasure Island, the Narnia books, The Hobbit...

I can't wait to read all these to Khan but I told my husband he has to read the part in Black Beauty where Ginger dies because I will be bawling too hard.

[jnd4rusty]

Little House on the Prairie
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
These were my favorites but I would read almost anything except science fiction. I adored the Little House books and even though I live in SD, I still have not gone to De Smet to see the Ingalls family home, I think I need to do that this summer!! Her sister Carrie lived in Keystone, SD which is about 20 miles or so from my city and I have been there many times. I still would love to go to De Smet though. I always lost myself in the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series, I still read them to this day! I would always pretend I was the detective.

[Eisa]

Sparrow Hawk Red by Ben Michaelsen. STILL one of my favorite books.

The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books.

Bad Girls etc. by Cynthia Voigt.

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques!

The Great Spanish Kidnapping Disaster although I can't remember who wrote it.

[MaggieTheCat]

In no particular order...

My Side Of The Mountain
Hatchet
Old Yeller
Where The Red Fern Grows
A Wrinkle in Time and others in the series
The Boxcar Children series
Anything and everything by Bruce Coville (The Unicorn Chronicles series, Magic Shop series)
the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles series
Harry Potter (hey, I read the first book when I was 13 or 14)
Oh yeah, and the Goosebumps series!

[jedimaster91]

Hmmm....lessee:

Julie of the Wolves and sequels
My Side of the Mountain and sequels
Goosebumps
Boxcar Children
Stellaluna
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bridge to Terabithia (I refuse to see the movie cuz I don't want to see it ruined)
The Duck Who Loved Puddles
Where the Wild Things Are (again, won't see the movie)
Thoroughbreds
The Shadow Club
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Tennis Shoes Adventure Series (still reading this one. #11 just came out!!!)

I'm sure I'll think of more.

[It's me]

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The Cricket in Times Square and it's sequels

I loved that book! I so wished I could live in a drain pipe in the middle of a subway station!


A couple to add to the list
-- Swiss Family Robinson -- must have read it 20 times
-- Peter Graves by William Pene du Bois -- I lked it so much that I had to track down a copy to buy a few years ago

[AdminAssistant]

A lot that people have already listed:

Little House on the Prairie
Bridge to Terabithia
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and its sequel Racso and the Rats of NIMH
The Last Vampire (Which, thinking back, was really *not* age-appropriate)
Maniac McGee
Babysitter's Little Sister (had a TON of those)
A bit of Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High..mostly my sister's old books.

I also went through a phase where I read a couple of "little white frontier girl gets kidnapped by Indians and becomes a better person" books. Can't remember any of the titles, though.

I also read anything Garfield that I could get my hands on. The old strips were funny.