I just bought a copy of The Secret Garden for my young niece and it got me to thinking about books I loved when I was a child. My favorites were The Secret Garden and the Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott. I also loved the Little House books. What were your favorites?
When I was REALLY little, I like the Fraggle Rock books and Little Critter. Once I was a bit older, I liked Babysitter's Club(oh god. *shudder*) and was addicted to Archie Comics...
I really loved The Giver and I Am the Cheese. I was also into Holes, but that was when I was a little older, like 4th, 5th grade.
I really liked The Phantom Tollbooth. It's always been one of my most favorites. Very different than a normal child's book. It's out there. The like the Dr. Seuss books too, but who does'nt? He has an art book out too that's really good.
when i was little i really liked the book that had the kid that had a terrible, horrible, very bad day..or something like that...lol Then as I got older I read the babysitters club little sister series..the one with Karen I hated(HATED!) that there was like the same chapter in every book it was always the 2nd or 3rd chapter...ugh!
cherryiceangel, i know exactly what you mean!!! It was that stupid chapter where Karen would explain how she has two mommies and two daddies and two houses and blabbity blah. I would always get mad when that chapter came up, and would often skip over it.
oh oh oh my favorite book was this counting books, it had colorful snails and fish and stuff! oh yay im gonna go get it
When I was really little, I had a suscription to the Fraggle Rock books and I got one every month. And I also loved Where The Wild Things Are. When I was around 4th grade I used to read the Sweet Valley High books....and those cheesy R.L. Stein mystery books. I think my 4th grade reading material traumatised me......too much cheese factor, and that is why I dont read much anymore. hehe.
If I Ran the Circus - Dr. Seuss I Can Lick 30 Tigers, Today - Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss i loved Dr. Seuss, as a kid. still do! and Soup, by Robert Newton Peck. I loooooved that book!
I loved The Giving Tree...by shel silversten, and Where the sidewalk ends, and the other one, light in the attic...All the Shel Silversten books i loved and still have..
When I was really young I loved the Serendipity series... Giving Tree and the Lorax were good ones.... I read so many lil paperback novels I don't even know what my favorites were... anything involving horses, indians, survivalism, etc... Ooohh... I liked the Boxcar children series and The Saddle Club. Also::: My Side of the Mountain Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Little House Series The Black Stallion series etc.etc.... I was a friendless nerd who read waaaayyy too many books during my adolescent years....
I loved.....and still do as it goes! 1. Where The Wild Are 2.Harold and the Purple Crayon 3.The Hungry catapillar 4.Scouse the Mouse. It's fab ive got achild cos i can read these books to her and remember my childhood.
I was thinking, does anyone remember how the books were? Not what was in them, but the plastic on the outside? I remember in preschool and elementary school, all our books had plastic book covers on them. I can almost remember how they sounded when you opened them too.
I read The Secret Garden when I was younger, and I loved that a lot. I also loved reading the Little House books. One year for Christmas, I got all the Little House books. But I don't know if I finished them.
I got a job working at the public library about 6 months ago, and it is so awesome to be putting books away, and many times I'll get distracted because I find a book that I loved when I was younger. That is the best part of the whole job, looking through all the books.
oh yeah...i forgot Chicken Little. When my mom would tell me to choose 3 books for her to read to me before bed, i would sometimes just ask her to read chicken little 3 times. hehe..aww..