Favorite Childhood Books

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.

aulsmith : Too gooey

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.

Bookish59: Loved to read English books; still do.

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.

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

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

timspalding : I hated this book. Pippi's life terrified me.

deslivres5: Her pigtails and her monkey captured my attention. Her wild adventures and unorthodox lifestyle were an eye opener.

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

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

fuzzi : Depressing stories. The only one I liked was The Tinder Box.

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

sturlington : Tedious.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

Bookish59: Another favorite; so glad it's listed here.

ahef1963: Read in university for a children's lit course. Liked it so much that I found copies of the rest of the series.

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.

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

Nycticebus: I loved the gentle bull, but more, I loved to trace the beautiful drawings.

sturlington: All-time favorite.

merrystar : not really a children's book

Diane-bpcb: There's a Betsy-Tacy society active in Mankato, Minnesota, where you can visit the Betsy and Tacy houses side-by-side in town. I loved all the[ Betsy-Tacy and Tib] books. At the time I read them, I believed that life really had existed in those days without the problems of the 20th century. The friendship of the girls was wonderful. Escapism when I needed it.

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

Bookish59: My love of mysteries started early!

Diane-bpcb: In addition to loving the mysteries--although I no longer read mystery stories--, I loved the set of blue-green cloth bound books which I sorted and re-sorted on my bookshelf.

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.

Bookish59: Another favorite!

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

sturlington: Duplicate

aulsmith: I loved this as a child, but now I have no idea why.

pickupf: Beautiful illustrations - exotic India theme in my edition. The best one was the tiger/butter stream. Brave and clever little boy.

Diane-bpcb: The tigers melting into butter were the charming thing here.

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

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