What books did you love as a child?


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Sopranochick wrote :
I loved The Girl With the Silver Eyes but I read that in highschool.
Wasn't that such a great book! Years years years later and I still remember my awe at the telekinesis....unfortunately my efforts to employ it fall short (no matter how hard I stare at that remote control I dropped onto the floor, I can't get it to pop back up into my hand! )
 
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I can't believe no one mentioned Richard Scarrey. I loved his books as a child! And of course when I grew older I read Nancy Drew and Anne with an e. I am also kind of ashamed to say that I used to read the Sweet Valley High books when I was a little girl. By the time I got into middle school I was busy reading everything Steven King wrote. I recently suggested that we give all the graduates from my school Oh the Places You Will Go by the good Dr. I heard this morning on a talk radio show that he had some anti-natzi literature he put out, has anyone ever seen it? Not to change the subject...
 
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This really takes me back...I loved Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins, I still collect Elsie Dinsmore. I am still a big fan of Richard Scarry, and I absolutely loved a PD Eastman book called Big Dog Little Dog, about two dogs named Fred and Ted. One rainy Saturday when I was about 12, I read The Thorn Birds in its entirety. I even read the dictionary and several volumes of Encyclopedia Brittanica. Oh the good old days when the only thing standing between me and a book was school...
 
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The Pink Motel was one of my most read and loved.

I was such a nerd growing up that I used to go to the library and browse the book stacks, sometimes not going to school just so I could do that. They never suspected a thing because what sort of truant would be spending their day in the library?
 
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I don't think this really qualifies for her, but when I was younger, I loved reading "Highlights" and "Madd Magazine". As I got older, that changed into Judy Bloom. I can't remember the name of the company, but they had a romance series line for young adults. I want to say it was Silhouette books and the Zodiac Club series. A few years later I evolved to Seventeen and Sassy.
 
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I am really going to date myself....I loved the "Fun with Dick and Jane" books when I was in 1st grade in the early 60's. I loved Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, all of the Dr. Seuss books. Gosh there are too many books to remember. I was also one of those kids who would read under the covers with a flashlight. When we were old enough to go to the library by ourselves my sister and I would walk a long distance on Saturday mornings to get to the public library (we had bus-fare but wanted to save it for candy, teehee!). We always looked forward to our trips to the library and we would return home with lots of books which we would start reading immediately.

I am so happy that my children love to read too.
 
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TiffanyDiamond wrote :
I am really going to date myself....I loved the "Fun with Dick and Jane" books when I was in 1st grade in the early 60's. I loved Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, all of the Dr. Seuss books. Gosh there are too many books to remember. I was also one of those kids who would read under the covers with a flashlight. When we were old enough to go to the library by ourselves my sister and I would walk a long distance on Saturday mornings to get to the public library (we had bus-fare but wanted to save it for candy, teehee!). We always looked forward to our trips to the library and we would return home with lots of books which we would start reading immediately.

I am so happy that my children love to read too.
You're not dating yourself with this. Two years ago, I saw one of the K-3 programs was using Fun With Dick and Jane, and Dr. Seuss is still on the K-3 grade reading lists in this area.
 
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TiffanyDiamond wrote :
I am really going to date myself....I loved the "Fun with D... and Jane" books when I was in 1st grade in the early 60's. I loved Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, all of the Dr. Seuss books. Gosh there are too many books to remember.
Take two....got modded I think 1st time I tried to post.

You're not dating yourself on this. The Fun With D...and Jane books were still being used in K3 classes, and Dr. Seuss is still on the reading list for K - 3 in the schools system here.
 
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“The Bear in the Bathtub “ it is about a boy that hates to get baths and one day finds a bear in the bathtub.
 
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Robecology wrote :
I'm the proud owner of the 1945 and 46 editions of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Grimm's tales and Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland, that my parents read (mom, mostly, can't recall dad reading). A little trivia about Grimm; it was he (actually two brothers) who originated Cinderella and Snow White and the seven dwarfs, not Disney. Anyone know the name of the other Grimm tale that involved Snow White? (hint; Snow White and R.R.) First book I read myself was the Egyptian, by Mika Waltari. Awesome story that combined the tale of Moses, and two kings of Egypt, Amenhotep, and Tutankhamen in to one story involving a doctor for all of them...and there's even some steamy intimacy (in the Egyptian) that was almost too much for me back then...did you know Egyptian doctors were actually relatively successful brain surgeons? Read the book; it's still amazing...
Actually, that's not TOTALLY true (except for the part about Disney not creating them. Disney picked those stories because they were in the public domain and he didn't have to pay royalties on them). The Grimm brothers didn't create these stories. They were researchers who went around collecting folk tales, THEN putting down into words the oral stories that had been passed around for generations. While NOT the originators, they were still highly influential.

Now, getting back on target.The VERY first book I can remember reading entirely by myself was Seuss' Hop On Pop (I was 3). As a pre-schooler, I recall that my mom signed me up for the monthly (or bi-monthly... can't remember) Seuss Book Club, and I would devour each one when they arrived. I remember reading Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Brain series (VERY funny series, that took place in Utah around the 1890's), The Hobbit & Lord Of the Rings, Chronicles Of Narnia (a few times, actually), and a lot of the Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume books in elementary school. I'm sure there were others, but those were the ones I can recall now. Then in Jr. Hi, I discovered Andre Norton and SO MANY good SF/Fantasy writers and never looked back.
 
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