Favorite Childhood Books

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

aulsmith : Too gooey

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.

aulsmith : My mom loved it, but I couldn't get into it.

ahef1963: Oh, Reepicheep and the waters that run sweet, I always wanted to join you.

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.

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."

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

anglemark: The winter landscape on the other side of the wardrobe has haunted my imagination all my life.

aulsmith : I liked the way they used the stuff they borrowed, but I didn't really like them.

ahef1963: I used to build little homes for Borrowers in my dresser drawers. I loved this book.

merrystar: My favorite of the Pippi books

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.

timspalding: I loved this as a kid. It doesn't hold up.

sturlington: Meg is the first heroine I wanted to emulate.

ahef1963: Loved this book. It's probably the first fantasy book I ever read and re-read.

timspalding : Terrifying.

ahef1963: This was my favourite book to read to my sleepy children.

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 loved this as a child, but now I have no idea why.

julie10reads: The perfect love story and set in,incredibly, turn of the century WASP Southern Ontario! Montgomery captures the priggish snobbery of the time and place, also the low social and economical value of an ageing, middle class spinster. Can't count how many times I've read it!

timspalding : Scared me. Seemed needlessly cruel. I still feel this way.

ahef1963: A great favourite of my children, to whom I read it countless times.

timspalding : Scared me.

aulsmith : I liked the elephant and the boa constrictor, but then I lost the thread.

ahef1963 : In grade 13 French we spent an entire term - five months - reading this in French and it dragged on forever. Now I loathe it.