Favorite Childhood Books

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

SaintSunniva: Such a lovely secret...the hidden garden, coming to life.

aulsmith : Didn't like romances even then.

RuMuse: Secret joy provides meaning

ahef1963: Loved this story.

Diane-bpcb: Seemed magical to me.

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."

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.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

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.

ahef1963 : I was always unsettled by the idea of an elephant king, and I was bothered by a book printed in italics.

aulsmith : Too weird for me. All that mumbo-jumbo about remembering being born.

ahef1963: I didn't read this until I was in my 40s, but loved it just the same.

Drapetsona: Great book of my childhood, although very creepy. Couldn't sleep after reading it, but I had to go on...

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

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

Drapetsona: When I finally came to read it after having collected so much bubble gum pictures of the Disney movie, I found it astonishing and very adult. I loved it. Favourites: Rikki Tikki, the little seal and the elephant boy.

aulsmith : Liked it the first time, but was bored on the re-read

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.

timspalding : Scared me.

aulsmith : I liked the elephant and the boa constrictor, but then I lost the thread.

ahef1963 : In grade 13 French we spent an entire term - five months - reading this in French and it dragged on forever. Now I loathe it.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

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.

aulsmith : I liked the way they used the stuff they borrowed, but I didn't really like them.

ahef1963: I used to build little homes for Borrowers in my dresser drawers. I loved this book.

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

Bookish59: Another favorite!

ahef1963: My first poetry book! It had such far-reaching importance in my life.

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.

aulsmith : I think my fears of home invasion originated in this book.

merrystar : not really a children's book

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.

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.

Matke: Read pre-school learning to read through first grade. Loved this series then.

ahef1963 : Cannot handle cruel treatment of animals in stories. This book gave me nightmares.