Favorite book as a kid?

I liked that one as well and read it to my children when they were younger. It's been so long since I was a kid I confess to not remembering what my favorite book was but I do remember the book that started a life long love of science fiction in 2nd grade, Silverberg's Lost Race of Mars from Scholastic Books.

Ah, nostalgia...

Cool topic!

When I was a toddler, it was any of the Little Golden Books- especially "Three Little Kittens" and "The Pokey Little Puppy."

Then Enid Blyton's "The Magic Faraway Tree" and Rudyard Kipling's "Puck of Pook's Hill" were my favourites once I was a big girl of 6 or 7.

Don't read any Blyton anymore, but Rudyard Kipling remains my author of choice!

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margaret Williams and the Dr. Seuss books were all my favs when i was a kid.

As a younger child I loved The Little Golden Books. As I got older I enjoyed anything by Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary. Funny as now my oldest daughter is 11 and sometimes I will read her books by Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary just to relive some of my childhood. As for my youngest she is not quite 2 and I get to read the little Golden Books all over again. It is so much fun.

Anne

Oh, what a wonderful thread

"Little Women", by Louisa May Alcott, holds a special place in my heart, since my mom read it to me, while I was recovering from eye surgery, when I was nine.

I also vividly remember discovering that there were more books in the "Wizard of Oz" series, when I found "The Land of Oz", in Shorey's Books, in Seattle, when I was 11 or 12.

Mary Grannan's books, including the "Just Mary Stories" and the "Maggie Muggins" series hold very fond memories. In fact, one of my very dearest friends even calls me Maggie Muggins

Of course, there was also "Anne of Green Gables" and the sequels, as well as Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and all of Enid Blyton's work.

Dad was a writer, and Mom was a teacher, so the house was filled with books. Now my problem is finding space for more bookcases, because I'm running out of room

Chacounne

Undoubtedly "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. I could still pick that book today and wouldn't be seen outside my room till I'd finished it.

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson.

I adore her work.

The Yearling and Toby Tyler. In my twenties discovered reading again--Virgin Planet (Poul Anderson) and Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster.

Triceratops

'Little Women' for me too. (And Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty') Nothng like lying in your bed having a good sniffle as one of the characters snuffed it!

Cheers,
aq

Mine was anything by Judy Blume, though I do remember the Richard Scarry books, with all those little worms and kitty cats.

What a great question!

When I was really young, it was Scuttle the Stowaway Mouse. I still have that book.

When I was older, my favorite was My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.

And Judy Blume! I loved all her young adult stuff, and when I was 13 my sister gave me Wifey, because she thought I "should know about that stuff." Boy was dad p.o.'d about that!

Cindy (who doesn't write for children, and had to butt in anyway)

Mine was A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I loved it so much that during one move to another city (one of many), I checked it out from the library and packed it, just in case the next library didn't have a copy! (I did return it later.) One of my personal treasures now is a copy of this book, with a lovely cover and illustrations, that belonged to my late DD#1. And when I'm kind of down, or have the sniffles, I can still find comfort in its pages.




It just occured to me that this might explain my title, too. I'm a big girl now, so I no longer want to be a princess. I'm EMPRESS of the CYBERWORLD now!! <insert evil laugh soundtrack here>

mine...

queenie peavy

Well, it's not a famous book. It was called, Kathy and the Dollbuggy. I was really into dolls and my name was in the title. Guess that's why.

Uh oh. Maybe this shows how old I am. Ha ha ha.

Favorite Books

The Little House and Big Susan. Great picture books, though I think Big Susan is hard to find these days.

Lolita, illustrated.

No seriously, I remember a Winnie the Pooh book I loved very much... but sad to say, I didn't read that much when I was a kid. I grew up with TV and movies, and I read comic books.

LOL, all you young people, my favorite book was The Polky Little Puppy which looked much like the puppy above! LOL maestrowork!

HARRIET THE SPY.

I kept a spy notebook, just like Harriet.

Also, THE HOBBIT, which I read so many times you could quote a sentence and I could tell you what chapter it was in.