What is your favorite childhood book?

[guest2]

Remember when you were a kid and you had a favorite book that you either read yourself or had someone read to you. What was that book for you?

I have 2 favorites and I still have my original copies of them...
Ferdinand (about the bull)
A Children's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat (beautiful hand painted illustrations in this book that had been given to my mother in 1954)

[Missy]

green eggs and ham

little house on the prairie series

the lion the witch and the wardrobe

all time faves:

old yeller

where the red fren grows

[KKCondrey]

The Monster At the End of this Book.

Thanks Debbie for starting this, I haven't thought of that book in years. I wish I could find my copy of it.

[homesteadmamma]

Mine have got to be:

Heidi

And a series by Thornton W. Burgess titled "The Adventures of _________". I absolutely loved that series and I have the whole set even to this day. The kids have loved me reading them the series as well.

[SewCrafty]

The Little House On The Prairie series, I have the complete set and will still read them every once in a while.

[duckduckgoose007]

I can't remember the name of the book!!!!!
Deed don't you have that old book with the picture of the kneeling girl & birds? Hope I am making sense.

[mtjsmom]

I have several...

Where the wild things are.
Anything Judy Bloom..loved her!
Nancy Drew mysteries
Little House on the Prarie series
Little Women
I loved Courderoy The bear!
And pretty much anything Dr Seuss
I also liked Shel Silversteins Where the sidewalk ends..

I know there are soo many i am forgetting..I will repost when i think of them..

CArol

[Dixie]

I still love, Litlle House On the Prairie,too. I also loved "Beautiful Joe", the "Grimm's Book of Fairy Tales" and countless others Fun thread! Thanks, Debbie.

[Darlene]

Originally posted by KKCondrey
The Monster At the End of this Book.

Thanks Debbie for starting this, I haven't thought of that book in years. I wish I could find my copy of it.

LOL Kat I just read that to one of my nephews not too long ago.

As a kid I remember Are You My Mother and my kids remember The Night Before Christmas ,Goodnight Moon and Frog & Toad.

One of my favorite books ( I love the illustrations) is Mousekin Finds A Friend by Edna Miller. I have a paperback book but would so cherish a hardcover one. It just makes me smile inside & out. It's about nature & friendship, two of the most wonderful things on this earth.

[canadian gardener]

The Tales of Narnia set (Lion Witch and the Wardrobe) by CS Lewis. I read those 7 books over and over and over again.

I still go back and re read them as an adult. Lot of wisdom in there.

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings which I read when I'd just turned 14 and had lost my mother a month or two before. I stayed up late into the nights that week, reading thru the whole saga in the fall of 1970.

Like CS Lewis' Narnia, (the authors were close friends) those are 2 sagas I turn to again and again when I need to take my mind off something, or sort out something.

They taught me about power, and how power corrupts, and how much good there is in making simple small choices time after time, how endurance is a virtue, and how much little things and little people actually turn the tides of big events.

Those 2 sets impacted my life almost as much as the Bible. Which isn't surprising. Both authors were Christians. The world view is overt in the Narnia set, and more hidden in the Ring trilogy. They are both challenging and comforting to children and adults alike.

[sunshine]

I'm an old lady-- so the books I read I are dated and not polically correct these days.

Little Black Sambo--- I know, I know-- but as a child I was just facinated with the fact that a kid could outwit a tiger --- AND turn him into butter!

The Pokey Little Puppy

The Ugly Duckling

The Little Train that Could

As I got a bit older:

Heidi

The Girl of the Limberlost

Freckles

LIttle Women, Little Men, Cousins

Where the Lilies Bloom

Where the Red Fern Grows

[Julia Kimber]

I loved Enid Blyton's 'Secret 7' books! They fascinated me and I'd have loved to have been one of the '7'!!! lol

Julia

[seadream]

My favorite was Charlotte's Web

[AmyBoz]

I loved the Nancy Drew books, and Harriet the Spy was my FAVORITE. However, a different type of book that my gramma had for me at her house in Ohio was named "Big Susan". It was wonderful and magical about a dollhouse that came alive every Christmas eve.

[dz_blonde_girl]

I remember, when I was very small, a book about a turtle and how God had a special plan for him. I have no idea what the name of this book was or what ever happened to it.

I also thoroughly enjoyed "Green Eggs and Ham", Sam I Am!