Favorite Childhood Books

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

timspalding : I hated this book. Pippi's life terrified me.

deslivres5: Her pigtails and her monkey captured my attention. Her wild adventures and unorthodox lifestyle were an eye opener.

deslivres5: I remember loving the passages where she would eat fresh cheese when in the mountains. Yum!

aulsmith : Too gooey

SaintSunniva: My mother read it to us...and I subsequently read all the Little House books.

ahef1963: The Little House books were the background to all my childhood and early adolescent fantasies. I still want to ride in a covered wagon.

deslivres5: I grew up in NYC and wanted to have that same adventure in the museum with MY younger brother.

ahef1963: Because of this book I took my young children to museums, where we always had fun planning where we'd hide out if we lived there.

timspalding : Spooky. I think I read it too young.

ahef1963: One of the best children's books out there.

aulsmith : I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. I do not, do not. There I am

sturlington : Tedious.

aulsmith : Too weird for me. All that mumbo-jumbo about remembering being born.

Bookish59: My love of mysteries started early!

Diane-bpcb: In addition to loving the mysteries--although I no longer read mystery stories--, I loved the set of blue-green cloth bound books which I sorted and re-sorted on my bookshelf.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

timspalding : Spooky.

ahef1963: My favourite of the Little House books.

Diane-bpcb: This was my favorite of the Little House books, which I just loved. My sister and I would play covered wagon, using our twin beds as our wagons, etc. Little did we know, in those days, that ancestors had gone West in a wagon train.

aulsmith : My younger sister's favorite. Got boring quickly.

ahef1963: My favourite Dr. Seuss book! Do you like my hat?

bookworminc: While my definition of a terrible horrible no good very bad day has changed as I grew up - the idea that maybe it's better somewhere else always sticks with you. I know that I still love the title

Matke: Read pre-school learning to read through first grade. Loved this series then.

Diane-bpcb: There's a Betsy-Tacy society active in Mankato, Minnesota, where you can visit the Betsy and Tacy houses side-by-side in town. I loved all the[ Betsy-Tacy and Tib] books. At the time I read them, I believed that life really had existed in those days without the problems of the 20th century. The friendship of the girls was wonderful. Escapism when I needed it.

aulsmith : I think my fears of home invasion originated in this book.

Diane-bpcb: Again, one of the classic Dr. Seuss books. So superior to the "hop on pop" ones, full of child-like emotions.

sturlington : Really did not enjoy reading this aloud.

SaintSunniva: Such a lovely secret...the hidden garden, coming to life.

aulsmith : Didn't like romances even then.

RuMuse: Secret joy provides meaning

ahef1963: Loved this story.

Diane-bpcb: Seemed magical to me.

ahef1963: A childhood favourite; I read it so often that the spine fell apart.

Diane-bpcb: MAJOR SPOILER: (Haven't figured out the new Spoiler offering in LT.) Will never forget reading somewhere something by a girl who always fought with her sister, and how she felt when this sister, having read the book first, calls out, "Beth died."

SaintSunniva : I have never liked it - too weird, too scary, the queen, the cat, the hookah...Alice herself.

ahef1963 : Not a huge fan of it. I found it more creepy than anything.