What were your favorite childhood books?
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I remember devouring the Sweet Valley High books.
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I loved the Ramona books too.
I didn't care so much for that one. And we didn't even have a cat.
I also loved the Nancy Drew books. I had my aunt's set. Don't tell her. She thinks my grandmother gave them away. Shhhh.
And Mom had some of her old books that I adopted. The ones I remember best were a biography of Helen Keller and a biography of Benjamin Frankling. The BF one was really interesting, b/c most of it turned out not to be true. Which is a fascinating new concept in biography, I think.
Except for the one where their cat died.
I also loved the Nancy Drew books. I had my aunt's set. Don't tell her. She thinks my grandmother gave them away. Shhhh.
And Mom had some of her old books that I adopted. The ones I remember best were a biography of Helen Keller and a biography of Benjamin Frankling. The BF one was really interesting, b/c most of it turned out not to be true. Which is a fascinating new concept in biography, I think.
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The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. I still have my original book, and I also bought it for Little Gertie.
Nancy Drew, of course. My first was The Sign of the Twisted Candles.
Nancy Drew, of course. My first was The Sign of the Twisted Candles.
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Off the top of my head:
1. Trixie Belden series
2. Ramona the Pest series
3. The Secret Garden
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Books (but I found I didn't like them when I tried to read them with my children)
1. Trixie Belden series
2. Ramona the Pest series
3. The Secret Garden
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Books (but I found I didn't like them when I tried to read them with my children)
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I read and loved every series I could find, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Chronicles of Narnia, and even the Sweet Valley High Series etc. but two books stand out as favorites that I still revisit occasionally - "From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" and "Watership Down"
I still love supposedly young adult fiction, I am ashamed to admit. Reading the Gossip Girl books now. That is why I love the Kindle. No one knows that I am reading this stuff...
I still love supposedly young adult fiction, I am ashamed to admit. Reading the Gossip Girl books now. That is why I love the Kindle. No one knows that I am reading this stuff...
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Except us ...traceyreads said:
But then, a lot of us read YA, too.
I loved the Box Car Children books. Then my cousin gave me all of her Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books.
I was a lucky kid as both parents are readers so we got to go to the library a lot and they always found a
couple of bucks for books from Scholastic while we were in school.
I was a lucky kid as both parents are readers so we got to go to the library a lot and they always found a
couple of bucks for books from Scholastic while we were in school.
My most favorite book growing up was Ella Enchanted. In fact, I'm currently rereading the copy I've had since I was about 11. Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter (of course), His Dark Materials, and A Little Princess are all also favorites. I also really liked The Egypt Game, though when I mention it to people they've never heard of it.
There's also TONS of books I checked out of the library when I was a kid and young teen, and don't remember anything about them except certain plot points. I'd love to find some of those books and read them again.
There's also TONS of books I checked out of the library when I was a kid and young teen, and don't remember anything about them except certain plot points. I'd love to find some of those books and read them again.
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I liked the Bobbsey Twins. Haven't seen that one mentioned...guess I'm showing my age. 
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Charlotte's Web
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By the time I was 10 or 11. The librarian at our city library, marched me over to the adult section. I was reading a book or 2 a day and she was tired of all the paperwork. She thought I needed a bigger challenge. She started me on...Agatha Christie.
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Charlotte's Web
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By the time I was 10 or 11. The librarian at our city library, marched me over to the adult section. I was reading a book or 2 a day and she was tired of all the paperwork. She thought I needed a bigger challenge. She started me on...Agatha Christie.
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Paulus and the Acornmen by Jean Dulieu was the first "real" book that I read.
This edition is the cheapest one out there and it's $103.
Hardcover
Publisher: World Publishing Co., Cleveland, 1966
PAULUS AND THE ACORNMEN written and illustrated by Jean Dulieu. A Holly Book published by World Publishing 1966. 238 pages. Children's fantasy about a wood-dwarf made smaller by a witch and then has adventures with the Acornmen. 47 full-color illustrations and 4 B&W drawings. Lemon yellow hard cover with B&W sketch of Paulus on right-hand bottom cover, black lettering on spine. Bottom half of inside back and front covers with illustration of Paulus and acornmen. In better than fair...
I also read all of Nancy Drew, every Agatha Christie and most of Heinlein. Since I read The America series by John Jakes when I was 11 and loved most of them (hated The Seekers) I'm going to include them as childhood favorites.
This edition is the cheapest one out there and it's $103.
Hardcover
Publisher: World Publishing Co., Cleveland, 1966
PAULUS AND THE ACORNMEN written and illustrated by Jean Dulieu. A Holly Book published by World Publishing 1966. 238 pages. Children's fantasy about a wood-dwarf made smaller by a witch and then has adventures with the Acornmen. 47 full-color illustrations and 4 B&W drawings. Lemon yellow hard cover with B&W sketch of Paulus on right-hand bottom cover, black lettering on spine. Bottom half of inside back and front covers with illustration of Paulus and acornmen. In better than fair...
I also read all of Nancy Drew, every Agatha Christie and most of Heinlein. Since I read The America series by John Jakes when I was 11 and loved most of them (hated The Seekers) I'm going to include them as childhood favorites.
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Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Apparently not yet Kindled.
I read this as a kid. . .one of the first chapter books I really remember, besides Nancy Drew, etc. When we lived in California (stationed at Pt. Mugu, south of Camarillo) my son had to read the book for school and they took a field trip to the Channel Islands park in Santa Barbara.
Ann
Apparently not yet Kindled.
I read this as a kid. . .one of the first chapter books I really remember, besides Nancy Drew, etc. When we lived in California (stationed at Pt. Mugu, south of Camarillo) my son had to read the book for school and they took a field trip to the Channel Islands park in Santa Barbara.
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Trixie Belden was my all time favorite. I wish they were available for Kindle, I would buy them all for my daughter. Ok for me lol.
I loved Nancy Drew too and Ramona among others mentioned here.
Melissa
I loved Nancy Drew too and Ramona among others mentioned here.
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Sara Crewe,(The Little Princess), Nancy Drew, Hardy boys. Cereal boxes, magazines, newspapers anything I could get my hands on and especially....forbidden books we would sneak in the house and read by flashlight...I still remember Phillip Roths Portnoys Complaint. I didn't even understand all of it but it was a best seller and only for grownups so I read it on the sly. Those were the days 
, Being naughty was reading a grownup book.
, Being naughty was reading a grownup book.
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No, not Kindled. I was just looking for it yesterday. They do have it on Audible though.Ann Von Hagel said:Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Apparently not yet Kindled.
I read this as a kid. . .one of the first chapter books I really remember, besides Nancy Drew, etc. When we lived in California (stationed at Pt. Mugu, south of Camarillo) my son had to read the book for school and they took a field trip to the Channel Islands park in Santa Barbara.
Ann
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