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.

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

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.

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.

timspalding : Spooky. I think I read it too young.

ahef1963: One of the best children's books out there.

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...

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.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

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.

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

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

sturlington: All-time favorite.

ahef1963 : I don't like stories being told within stories, and this book had far too much of that.

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.

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 : Too dark

sturlington: Duplicate

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

sturlington : Really did not enjoy reading this aloud.

merrystar : I'm reasonably sure I would have been horrified by this as a child; luckily I read it later

sturlington : Did not read until later, although I liked other Bradbury as a child.

aulsmith : My mom loved it, but I couldn't get into it.

Diane-bpcb: This was read to me. I loved the way these characters talked and thought.

aulsmith: Sixth grade teacher read this to us.

merrystar : Had to read this in middle school and hated it.

sturlington : Did not read until I was an adult.

Diane-bpcb: The Dr. Seuss "classic" books had imaginative stories, and hauntingly (to me) beautiful water colors. Have recently seen cheapened versions with fewer drawings, dulled colors.