favourite chilhood books

POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Monday, October 29, 2007 01:17
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DEEPLYKIDDING

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:08 PM

This thread is bringing back some great memories!

I also loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I read them so many times the covers started to fall off. I've given them to my neices, and now they are enjoying them, too.

Dr. Seuss and Richard Scarry were also big hits with me. Great imaginations!

One of my all-time faves is The Little Prince. Sad and strange little story, and I didn't really understand all of it when I was younger, but I still love it, and keep my copy in my book shelf.

And last but not least: Flat Stanley. I always wondered what it would be like to be flat...

I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass...

THATWEIRDGIRL

Friday, October 26, 2007 8:14 PM

TinyLittleWeirdGirl: Suess books, 'Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too', and Sweet Pickles series.

School-agedWeridGirl: 'Paddle to the Sea', The Three Detectives, Nancy Drew (original run), Hardy Boys (original run), 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Emily of New Moon' books, Aesop's Fables and I really liked adventure books like 'Swiss Family Robinson'.

AdolescentWeirdGirl: Shakespeare, Bradbury, and *blushes* the Sunfire teenage romance books like 'Josie' or 'Susannah'.

My all-time favorite book for child or adult is 'The Little Prince'.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown

TRAVELER

Friday, October 26, 2007 11:49 PM

"Rifles for Watie" by Harold Keith.
A novel that takes place in Indian Territory during the American Civil War. The Cherokee Indians are split buy the Civil War and fight their own minature civil war. The Union and Confederate armies clash when they enter into this conflict. The story centers around a young Nebraska boy who enlists in the Union Army and falls in love with a Cherokee girl who sides with the Confederates. Based on actual events that occurred in this region during the war.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

DEEPGIRL187

Saturday, October 27, 2007 1:27 AM

There's A Wocket In My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss

Fox In Socks, by Dr. Seuss

Molly's Monsters, by Teddy Slater

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff

To Hell With Dying, by Alice Walker

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin Jr.

The Black Snowman, by Phil Mendez

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CYBERSNARK

Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:46 PM

I never really read childrens' books. I seem to have jumped straight from "being read to" to reading full-length novels (I credit my parents for this; they were both readers, and raised me well). Some of the books of my youth include:

Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons, all by Patricia C. Wrede.

Yes, these are girls' books. There's a certain age bracket where boys are apparently not expected to read. If you do happen to be a boy who likes reading, you have no choice but to pick up girl-aimed books.

OTOH, this was where I first learned that girls do, in fact, kick ass.

E.T.: Book of the Green Planet The sequel to the movie. Yes, there's a sequel to E.T. I'm probably the only person on Earth who knows what a flopglopple is.

And the Robotech novels. The TV series never aired around my part of Ontario, so the Jack McKinney books were the only source I knew. They were the books that turned me into a sci-fi fan --they have everything. Action, adventure, romance, comedy, drama, tragedy, redemption, villainy, big stompy robots blowing sh*t up, Evil aliens, Heroic aliens, Earth blasted into a wasteland by the Zentraedi, decimated by the Masters, conquered by the Invid, and rescued by the descendents of the REF. . .

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MSG

Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:33 PM

Oh I teach Dealing with Dragons in my 7th grade English class :)

Ok my favorites as a young child ( about 8) were
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Over Sea, Under Stone
Nancy Drew books
To Kill a Mockingbird ( though it wasn't until I was a teenager that I understood Scout interrupted a lynching)
Gone with the Wind
and, just like my big sis, Anne of Green Gables :)

You can't rush science, Gibbs! You can yell at it and scream at it, but you can't rush it. "- Abby Sciuto

EMPIREX

Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:41 PM

Read a lot as a kid, but some of my favorites were...

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Oink and Pearl
Anne of Green Gables series
Little Women
The Chronicles of Narnia
Shadow Castle
The "Little House" books
The Neverending Story
Number the Stars
The Boggart
The Perilous Guard - I still read this one from time to time. I've often wished they'd make it into a movie.

Ehhh... that's all I can think of for now.

"Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach one thousand years of masculine ineptitude? Why do you think there are so few women historians? I'll tell you why. Because history is not such a frolic for women as it is for men... History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. History is women following behind with a bucket and a mop." - Alan Bennett, "The History Boys"

BORIS

Monday, October 29, 2007 1:17 AM

Oh my God!!! I love ET and the book of the green planet!!! I often called the kids at work flopglopples when I was feeling endeared towards them. fabulous read. It got me into reading other William Kotzwinkle stuff. though a girl, I too was annoyed about the girl directed reading matter when I had passed the early stages. I went straight to adult and young adult stuff and classics...I also read alot of Biggles etc. there's a little bit more out there that boys would be comfortable with (Apart from"the Softwire" of course), other good authors are John Marsden, Andy Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, Phillip Pullman...

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