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Poll: Your favorite children or YA book?
I ordered a box collection of Roald Dahl and I cant wait for it to arrive.
So what are some of your favorite books from childhood?
Re: Poll: Your favorite children or YA book?
I loved The Black Stallion (Walter Farley) series and Judy Blume's books - especially "Tiger Eyes."
I liked lots of others, too, but those come to mind right now because I saw them on my bookshelf when I was at my parents' over Christmas.
R.L. Stein (Fear Street, not Goosebumps)!
What? Reading books about people getting stabbed to death is totally normal, isn't it?
::facial twitch::
To this day, my favorite books are The Chronicles of Narnia (and I'm a librarian and an English Lit teacher...this is a big statement). Never saw the movies. Don't really care.
I liked Judy Blume's books too but made the mistake of reading Then Again, Maybe I Won't, which is like the boys' version of Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. That was an eye opener.
Also:
The Girl Who Owned a City. Very cool for younger readers.
Black Stallion, Misty of Chincoteague, Man O' War....any book about horses
Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Babysitter's Club
hmmmm.....will have to keep thinking and reply to other peoples' lists.
Loved this book, but I had forgotten all about it!
More that I had forgotten about!!! I cried every time I read Bridge to Terabithia and Gilbert Blythe was my first true love. Um, yeah, he's great.
I loved Dr Seuss, I'm having so much fun re-discovering them with M.
YA I loved Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley and V.C. Andrews books.
Oh wow, all I did was read when I was a kid, so I have a ton:
Babysitter's Club, Boxcar Children, Fear Street, Sweet Valley High, Lurlene McDaniels, anything by Madeleine L'Engle, Chronicles of Narnia, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, LJ Smith books.
Basically, I'd read anything.
The Westing Game
Anne of Green Gables series, Emily of New Moon trilogy
Little House on the Prarie series
Little Women
Heidi
Swiss Family Robinson
ETA: The old-school Nancy Drew books. Can't believe I forgot those.
Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken
Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson, Little My is my favorite character of fiction and I have a Snork Maiden keyring that I got in Finland. I also visited the museum in Tampere. I love the Moomins.
I also liked The Bobbsey Twins, Ramona and Beezus, Harriet the Spy, Nancy Drew, Little House, Pippi Longstocking, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
Oh and Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan and A Cricket in Times Square
Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
A Wrinkle in Time
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
I don't know how I could possibly capture all of my favorites, but, we'll give it a go:
Hatchet, Number the Stars, The Giver, The Christy Miller series A Wrinkle in Time, My Side of the Mountain, the 'Little House' series, and Animal Farm.
I also read most of the Sweet Valley and Hardy Boys books too, but I really couldn't get into Nancy Drew.
Some that I've discovered and loved as an adult include Heidi, Matilda, Secret Garden and The Little Princess (and some of her short stories too--she is really good!), and the newer books Matched and Crossed.
ETA: I got the Roald Dahl boxed collection at a book fair they held at my workplace. It is amazing.
The BFG.
Mom didn't let me buy the Babysitters Club books. My rebellion was borrowing from the library and hiding to read them...
intriguing! i might have to check that out...