Favorite Children's Books

What were your favorite books when you were younger?
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

Douglas Adams

King of the Dollhouse by Patricia Clapp

I read and re-read this book for years...it's about a little girl who has a dollhouse..one day a little King comes with his babies to stay in her house....he's a stay-at-home King and the queen is out on a hunt It is just a wonderfully creative story....perfect for a little girl with a dollhouse!


Kris
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

Douglas Adams

As an older child (ie over 10 ) :
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables - the entire series

As a younger child I didn't get to read many books oddly enough. We were too poor to afford books and we often didn't have enough money to buy gas - so driving to the library was out of the question (public transportation didn't exist in the poorer Dallas suburbs at that time). Our elementary school had a VERY limited library, but the books I liked best were biographies of the US Presidents. I guess that is why I buy so many books and take my kids to the library as a treat - reading is very precious to me!

Jennifer

I do have some fav children's books now that I have children, though:

anything by Graeme Base (Animalia, The Eleventh Hour, Dragons, The Sign of the Seahorse, and there's a new one I don't have yet)

The Velveteen Rabbit

Going on a Bear Hunt

Hug

Will You Still Love Me...?

[DCJenn]

I loved the books that were part of the "I can Read All by Myself" series- it was a book club for kids and I got a new book every two months or so- usually the size of Dr. Suess Books. That was awesome.

Once I was older I read all of the Nancy Drew, Bobsey Twins and Hardy Boys series. I also loved the Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe Series'.

To this day I'd much rather sit and read a book than watch TV.

Jenn

I loved a lot of the same books as Jenn did. I read all of the Nancy Drew mysteries, some of the Hardy Boys, Chronicles of Narnia, Little House on the Prairie and I also liked Encyclopedia Brown where you would be given a chance to solve the mystery on your own.

I can't remember the books I liked when I was younger. My dad always read to me but I mostly remember longer stories like Black Beauty. My grandmother was a volunteer at our little town library and I would spend hours just reading in a corner while she worked. I loved the peace and quiet there and the smell of the books.

Robin

When I was really little I loved a book called the "Family Minus" that my dad would always read to me. When I got a bit older I loved "The Boxcar Children", "Little House on the Prairie" and almost any Judy Blume book..especially "Superfudge"

I can't wait for my daughter to be old enough to enjoy these!

[Meenah]

Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children. The one book I remmeber that really impacted on me was "Old Yeller". A teacher read it to us in school, a chapter a day. That is when I realized I LOVE to read.
Luanne

"A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle was my absolute favorite. I also loved "Little Women" and "Jack and Jill" by Lousia May Alcott, and "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgeson Burnett. And the Chronicles of Narnia, and Anne of Green Gables, and Sydney Taylor's "All of a Kind Family". I had kind of a rough childhood, and I read anything I could get my hands on, especially if it would take me to some other world that was different from my own. If the Harry Potter books had been around, they'd have been my favorites in all the world.

Eliz

[Cumberland]

the story of ferdinand, the bashful bull. I still love that book.

I can't really remember my really young childhood favorites, but as I got little older, I loved James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and all books by Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic).

Sharon