Favourite book as a kid

We have an Author called Grahame Base and he wrote books called The Eleventh Hour and Animalia. I loved these books.

 

The Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine

 

james and the giant peach and this really old story book my mom used to read me
~Faery

 

God i remember The Twits, funny book. There was one called The Enemies, about twin sisters as well. I volunteer at a primary school and saw so many books i knew years before. I find it funny reading them now but it's nice.

 

'Where the Red Fern Grows.'

made me cry.

 

"The Littles"... it was a series about this family of little people, kind of like that other book they made a movie out of, but so much better!

~Nova

 

Fantastic Mr.Fox by Roald Dahl and Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson

 

"A Light in the Attic", "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein.

 

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski. I started reading at a very early age.

 

Narnia -Only when I grew up and realised the Christian allegories woven into the storyline did I like it less (though I still read it yearly!)

Susan Cooper - Dark Is Rising series. Based on Arthurian legend and definitely highly recommended.

LeGuin - First Earthsea Trilogy. A series I recommend to every gal I date . If she likes it then we have a basis for a relationship! .

Since then, I'd throw in the Eddings Belgariad/Malloreon series as well as Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy. I'd also somewhat reluctantly throw in Potter though I think it's becoming too long winded and aimless in the latter books.

 

same here

 

haha! my two favorite childhood books were "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli and "There's A Boy In The Girl's Bathroom" by Louis Sachar.

 

dark is rising - susan cooper
wierdstone of brisingamen -alan garner
moon of gomoreth- alan garner
welkin weasels- gary kilworth
switches- kate thompson

and of course narnia, potter and the hobit.

 

narnia chronicles and indian in the cupboard

 

The Last of The Mohicans.

 

you read that as a kid? impressive

 

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? -- Bill Martin Jr.
Boy -- Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory --- Roald Dahl
Lost Horizon -- James Hilton

 

"sipsik" and astrid lindgren "Pippi Longstockings"

 

I read mostly books series as a kid. Read a lot of Babysitters Club and American Girl books (I read the Kirsten series) as a kid. I was also a big Goosebumps fan. I liked the My Teacher Is An Alien series and the Wayside School books. I still have many of those books in a bag in my closet. Sometimes when I'm really bored I'll re-read them. Upon re-reading, I understand why I loved American Girl books so much. Why I was so into BSC books, however, is a good question. I mean, I get why I read them, but I don't really understand how they shaped my childhood the way they did... The My Teacher Is An Alien books were actually quite good- especially the My Teacher Glows In The Dark, which is borderline political and has a really good message- and the Wayside School books were very funny.

 

I loved the Babysitters Club. Had all the books and loved the TV show.The movie was not that great though. It should've had the original actors.