What were your favorite books from childhood?

I loved Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret?

I also loved Anne of Green Gables (and loved the movies!)

Loved all the Ramona Quimby books too.

Also loved the Flowers in the Attic books.

And I was also very into the Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley Twins series. I bought every single book in those series. I remember them being super cheap. Are series like that still out there for middle school girls?

[houseelf]

Encyclopedia Brown
Choose Your Own Adventure series

Kelly

[migirl]

Oh, so many that I can't remember! Here are the few I can remember off the top of my head...

The Phantom Tollbooth
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Great Brain series
The Sweet Valley High series
The Little House on the Prairie series
A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Wind in the Door

[samssugarmomma]

I didn't discover the Anne of Green Gables until high school, but I loved them!

And the Little House on the Praire series.

I, too, read all of The Babysitters Club books. I think I was on book # 22 or something when I stopped reading.

And Nancy Drew. My mom saved me a bunch of her Nancy Drew books from when she was little. I think that the Nancy Drew series is still around.

[Stella]

Oh my gosh, The Phantom Tollbooth!! I had completely forgotten about that one!

Also, Sweet Valley High and Babysitter's Club. Plus Nancy Drew, A Wrinkle in Time, Wayside School is Falling Down, A Taste of Blackberries, Choose Your Own Adventure, Judy Blume, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Velveteen Rabbit, Paddington Bear, Madeline, Goosebumps from R.L. Stine, The Magic School Bus (or was that for my brothers?), and Goodnight Moon.

I know those are all mixed up by level/age but that's what I could remember off the top of my head. I read a lot. Can you tell?

[Ravenclaw]

I loved Roald Dahl books when I was younger. Not a surprise I love Harry Potter books now.

[Lo]

Oh my gosh, The Phantom Tollbooth!! I had completely forgotten about that one!

Also, Sweet Valley High and Babysitter's Club. Plus Nancy Drew, A Wrinkle in Time, Wayside School is Falling Down, A Taste of Blackberries, Choose Your Own Adventure, Judy Blume, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Velveteen Rabbit, Paddington Bear, Madeline, Goosebumps from R.L. Stine, and Goodnight Moon.

I know those are all mixed up by level/age but that's what I could remember off the top of my head. I read a lot. Can you tell?

Where we separated at birth??????

i have to ask the same question...

[anwanie99]

I loved Roald Dahl books when I was younger. Not a surprise I love Harry Potter books now.

Me too! I read all of them over and over and over and over....
Did you know that Health Ledger and Michelle Williams actually named their kid Matilda after the Roald Dahl book? I heard her say that on Leno...

[Ravenclaw]

I loved Roald Dahl books when I was younger. Not a surprise I love Harry Potter books now.

Me too! I read all of them over and over and over and over....
Did you know that Health Ledger and Michelle Williams actually named their kid Matilda after the Roald Dahl book? I heard her say that on Leno...

No way. That is really cute! I read them over and over too. I would get so excited every week looking forward to the day our class would go to the school library to check out books.

[fluffhead]

I LOVED those Great Brain books!
Also Encyclopedia Brown, all the CS Lewis books, Frank Baum books, Roald Dahl books. I think there were some NIMH books I liked too...
Oh - Homer Price - I can still recite those poems from memory.

[Bittersweet]

I love The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, my Dad used to read a bit of it to my sister and I before bed each night.

I also loved: Sideway Stories From Wayside School, The Babysitters Club (Mary Ann was my favorite), Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Praire, and Sweet Valley High.

As a little girl, I thought the Berenstain Bears rocked!

Sweet Valley High and The baby sitters club, Enid Blyton books particularly Malory Towers and The Twins at St. Clares series. Tribizon books (another boarding school series), Alfies Shoes ( ds reads it now), Each Peach Pear Plum (another one ds reads and I never forgot all the words to it) The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Far Away Tree, the Velvatine Rabbit and Little Women

When I was really little I loved "Owl at Home". I loved the Pippi Longstocking books as a kid, as well as Nancy Drew (they were scary to me, tho ... I couldn't read them before bed).

I loved the Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume books, Madeline L'engle, Little House on the Prairie. I read all the Little House books during the winter of second grade (nerd!) and DD has the set (from my grandparents) that I read. Her teacher is reading Fudge to the class and she loves it.

I also liked Encyclopedia Brown series, Bridge to Terebithia, Agatha Christie...my next trip to my dad's house, I'm going to box up and send home a bunch of these.

[madeintaiwan]

For me Roald Dahl, E.B. White, Babysitter's Club, Nancy Drew. I read a lot during elementary school and less and less as the year went by. I used to win reading contests; my mother used to make me read 1-2 hours every night. I love love The Trumpet of the Swan.