Favourite Children's books

[The Whether Man]

One of my favourites as a child, before I read The Phantom Tollbooth, was a book of my mother's from when she was a girl. It was called The House With the Twisting Passage.

After that I grew up on a diet of The Famous Five and Biggles and later expanded into The Three Investigators.

 

[Ranb]

How to eat fried worms.
JD Fitzgerald's Great Brain series.
Beautiful Joe.
Secret Seven series.
The Three Detectives series.
Soup (Robert Peck)

Ranb

 

[Meri]

Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson.

Yes, it's 50 years old, but the book helped get my imagination up and running.

So, you can either thank (or blame) that for how I turned out...

I still want a crayon like the one in the book. Best imaginary toy ever.

Other books would be:
The Boxcar Children
Bruce Coville's books (Aliens Ate My Homework)
Redwall
Black Beauty
The Black Stallion
Fox in Socks (my favorite Dr. Seuss.)
The Berenstein Bears (My mother says she had to hide our copy of "No Girls Allowed" so I wouldn't ask her to read it everyday)
A Wrinkle in Time

Also a bunch of old children's books that my Grandparent's had kept, mainly the Happy Hollisters and the Bobbsey Twins. I also remember two books about dogs "Beautiful Joe" and "Clarence the TV dog", I found at their house.

Children's books I've read as an adult are:
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
the young adult books in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (The Tiffany Aching books and Amazing Marice and His Educated Rodents)
and, of course, Harry Potter

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

A Winkle in Time

Is that a potty-training guide?

 

[Meri]

Is that a potty-training guide?

I have no idea what you're talking about. I certainly didn't have any typos or anythin in my post.

 

[Ove]

As comparatively young (around 12) i stumbled upon Kiplings: "Stalky & Co". I am not sure i understood it completely the first many times i read it but it is still to this day (im 49) my favoutite book. And of course the "Harry Potter" Series .
Other kids favourites was the Enid Blyton books (ohh yes and i dont blush ) and other similar ones. I must admit though that i nearly died laughing when i saw Russ Abbott make his version of the Blyton books in one of his series...

 

[pgwenthold]

I still like the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. And I was a HUGE fan of all things Beverly Clearly. I was in love with Beezus, and Ramona just gets things so well.

One book I read a lot when I was little was "The Silver Spoon Mystery." Don't know who the author was, but I just loved that book.

I also liked Where the Red Fern Grows.

 

[LibraryLady]

One book I read a lot when I was little was "The Silver Spoon Mystery." Don't know who the author was, but I just loved that book.

Dorothy Sterling

 

[Buckaroo]

Tom Sawyer. Read it again and again and again from third grade on.
The Forgotten Door.
Most of Heinlein's juvenile stuff.
The Black Stallion.
The Hardy Boys.
The Three Investigators.

 

[Buckaroo]

As comparatively young (around 12) i stumbled upon Kiplings: "Stalky & Co". I am not sure i understood it completely the first many times i read it but it is still to this day (im 49) my favoutite book.

Didn't hit S&Co. until I was a teen (after watching the BBC series), but loved it to death.

 

[pgwenthold]

Dorothy Sterling

Wow, I never realized it was by a famous author.

 

[Alice Shortcake]

I'm 47 and I still enjoy reading Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Other childhood favourites:
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Bambi by Felix Salten (I think that's how the author's name is spelled)
The Sword in the Stone by T H White (far better than the awful Disney film)
Little Women by L M Alcott
Elidor and other books by Alan Garner
The Borrowers series by Mary Norton

One of my biggest favourites was The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. I re-read it a couple of years ago and was sorry to find that it hadn't aged well, which is something to bear in mind if you're looking for a trip down memory lane!

 

[Ove]

Didn't hit S&Co. until I was a teen (after watching the BBC series), but loved it to death.

BBC SERIES!!!!!!!!!! Was it good ??? -just curious but there has been too many rotten adaptations and i would hate that done to my favourite book.

 

[aries]

I loced the tales and stories by Jules Verne, from Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea to A captain of 15 (I think that is Verne??) It's been a while

I also loved all Astrid Lindgren's books, especially Mio, my Mio. And the stories about Pippi Longstocking, too. And of course, the books about the Brothers Lionheart (or Lionheart Brothers?)

 

[pgwenthold]

A couple of others I should mention:

_Anything_ Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Charlotte's Web by EB White

A friend and I had a Charlotte's Web reading race in 4th grade (I think). We started when school started at 8:30. Reading as much as we could during school time. We both turned to the last page at the same time, at 1:30, and I finished it seconds before he did.

 

[Thinking in CT]

Anything by EB White

A couple of others I should mention:

_Anything_ Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Charlotte's Web by EB White

A friend and I had a Charlotte's Web reading race in 4th grade (I think). We started when school started at 8:30. Reading as much as we could during school time. We both turned to the last page at the same time, at 1:30, and I finished it seconds before he did.

What a wonderful young reader story. I would also be sure to include "Stuart Little". White never talks down to his readers and he is an incomparable stylist. Also by the time a kid is in 7th or 8th grade he should have his own copy of "Elements of Style" by Strunk and White, the best book on writing ever written. I have had a copy (not the same copy to be sure) for over 45 years and I refer to it all the time.

 

[juniper_ann]

I liked historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. I tried to shorten the list, but...couldn't throw anything out.

Favorite books as a child (in roughly chronological order):

[birth]
Great Big Animal by Feodor Rojankovsky
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Angelina Ballerina series by Katherine Holabird
American Girls series by various Authors
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Little Women, and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Midnight is a Place by Joan Aiken
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
The White Mountains by John Christopher
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Wrinkle in Time quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
[9th grade]

I read a lot of my favorite books out loud to my siblings after I’d read them. The only one I remember enjoying reading out loud better than reading to myself was The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Comedy is always better in a group.

 

[Momzahippie]

Where the Wild Things Are. already mentioned several times. But I remember being on the waiting list in elementary school for that book. Everyone loved it.
Also, Where the Sidewalk Ends. Can't remember the author. It was a book of poetry.

 

[Momzahippie]

Just looked it up Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends. Excellent funny poetry perfect for kids and of course adults who are always kids at heart.

 

[sackett]

"Once upon a time, on an altogether uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee man, from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-Oriental splendour."

"Them that takes cakes
That the Parsee Man bakes
Makes dreadul mistakes!"

Kipling, of course.