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lilyann · Dooney & Bourke

favorite book you read as a child

zeitgeist4 · Gucci

I don't really remember any of the books I read as a kid, except I was into The Babysittter Club books (is that what it was called??).

small fry · Chanel

Nancy Drew , Little House on the Parrie (sp) ,

Maddie · Coach

I love Little House on the Prarie, Narnia, etc.

My favorites were Shabanu by Suzanne Fischer Staples and Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield. Shabanu has some heavy content, it's about a Pakistani girl being married off, but it gets really violent and intense. Ballet Shoes is about three orphans who were adopted by a wealthy Londoner who is never home and never sends money, so they end up getting into theater. Both are excellent.

laken1 · Hermes

The Monster at the End of this Book by Grover! does that count?

BTW, the only reason i thought of it is that i just found it at a garage sale for a nickel & had to have it.

I also fondly remember Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume - i'd love to read it again to see it is as earth shattering as I remember....

Elle · Hermes

Ramona QuimbyThe Babysitters Club, Narnia. My favorite book when I was very young was The Pokey Little Puppy.

There was a horror-type series for kids, but I can't remember what it was called ....

-- Edited by Elle at 13:37, 2006-02-07

laken1 · Hermes

Elle wrote:

Ramona Kwimby (sp?), The Babysitters Club, Narnia. My favorite book when I was very young was The Pokey Little Puppy.
There was a horror-type series for kids, but I can't remember what it was called ....

was it goosebumps? I LOVE the pokey little puppy too - i forgot about that one!

bumblebee · Coach

these are mostly younger-kid picture books, but i loved: "corduroy," about a small bear who gets lost in a department store and has to spend the night there until the girl who owns him comes back for him the next day, "where the wild things are," all of the richard scarry books with the detailed pictures where you look for goldbug on each page (like "all around town" and stuff), madeline, and beatrix potter stories (like "peter rabbit," etc.). i have hardcover versions of most of these because it makes me happy to flip through them sometimes. i'm saving them for the kids i will have someday.

ramona quimby was my favorite when i got a little older, and i did like the nancy drew books, too.

oh! does anyone remember that book about the boy in china who falls down a well? ricky-tiki-tembo, i think? we loved that one, too.

-- Edited by bumblebee at 13:29, 2006-02-07

valenciana · Dooney & Bourke

Elle wrote:

There was a horror-type series for kids, but I can't remember what it was called ....

Goosebumps?

I loved Nancy Drew and also Trixie Belden...I've always been a mystery girl. I also loved Charlotte's Web, The Boxcar Children, and The Little Princess.

As a younger kid, before "chapter books," I really liked Miss Rumphius.

esquiress · Marc Jacobs

Maddie wrote:

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield.

i loved this book, i read all her others as well. my favorite was the one w/ rachel and hilary as the main characters--i think it was called Dancing Shoes?

Elle · Hermes

Oh, yes yes yes it was Goosebumps!

There was also another one I liked - it was for younger kids, about a little boy bear who wants his mother to make him somthing to wear ....

bumblebee · Coach

oh! elle, that's "birthday soup." he wants her to make him a space suit, so he can go up in the space ship that he just built? i loved that one.

Elle · Hermes

bumblebee wrote:

oh! elle, that's "birthday soup." he wants her to make him a space suit, so he can go up in the space ship that he just built? i loved that one.

Yes! Man, I am bad at this game

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blink · Coach

All those books by Judy Blume. Also Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley Twins and SW High. So eighties!!

Hedvig · Coach

I loved Nancy Drew books - although her name was Paula Drew in the Finnish translation, for some reason. And Enid Blyton's books, such as The Famous Five and The Adventure Series.

Oh, and then there were the Lotta books by a Swedish author - they were the funniest, cutest books ever!

I found a pic, too! I feel all nostalgic now...

relrel · Marc Jacobs

oh dear...i am such a fan of children's books...it *almost* makes me want kids. here's my list:

where the wild things are

the story of ferdinad

miss rhumphius

five chinese brothers

jamberry

goodnight moon

blueberries for sal

caps for sale

the story about ping

make way for ducklings

velveteen rabbit

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and for slightly older children

the westing game

bridge to terebithia

the bfg

stuart little

ralph s. mouse

wrinkle in time

mixed up files of mrs basil e frankwieler

mrs frisby and the rats of NIMH

Liz · Kenneth Cole

Oh everyone has named so many of the good ones that I loved when I was younger. Of the ones that were named:

1. Nancy Drew

2. A Wrinkle in Time (I still read this one occasionally )

3. The Babysitters Club (did you guys ever watch the show?)

4. Sweet Valley Twins/High (this had a short lived show as well)

5. Anything by Roald Dahl (the BFG, The Witches, etc)

6. Judy Blume books

7. Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankwieler

8. The Little Princess

Of the ones not named:

1. Books by Christopher Pike and R.L. Stein (teen lit horror)

2. The Secret Garden

3. The Phantom Tollbooth

4. Books by LJ Smith (teen lit sci-fi about witches, vampires and such)

5. The Incredible Journey

6. But my all time favorite, Where the Red Fern Grows. I still read it every great while and cry like a baby. I'm such a sap.

-- Edited by Liz at 19:03, 2006-02-07

NCshopper · Hermes

Has no one mentioned Ann of Green Gables yet?!?!?!?! Those were some of my favorites!

I also loved Ramona Quimby, the Babysitters Club (I read up to 113), Angelina Ballerina (when I was younger), Nancy Drew, and A Wrinkle in Time and all of Madeline L'Engle's books.

Liz · Kenneth Cole

NCshopper wrote:

Has no one mentioned Ann of Green Gables yet?!?!?!?! Those were some of my favorites!

AAHH! How could I forget? I loved Gilbert and Anne! I used to watch the mini-series based on these books, too.

Metric · Gucci

Bumblebee- I love Richard Scarry too.

Did anyone ever read Fudge? And Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing? All the Judy Blume books were great.

Mercer Mayer's "How the Trollusk lost his hat" is fantastic. Corduroy, Curious George, Goodnight Painted Pony, Paddington Bear.

Robert Munsch (he might be Canadian?) wrote these great little stories like The Paperbag Princess, Mortimer, and I have to go Pee! He is a fabulous author.

Shel Silverstein's books of poetry- Where the Sidewalk Ends and A light in the attic. His poems are amazing and hilarious.

When I was a bit older I loved Babysitters Club and Sleepover Friends.

When we moved just recently, I found a volume of stories that must have come from when I lived in South Africa. They are all really oddly written, like maybe it was translated from another language. And it was published during Apartheid so they are not exactly the most...um..politically correct. It was very strange to go through them.