Favorite Childhood Books

timspalding : Spooky. I think I read it too young.

ahef1963: One of the best children's books out there.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

SaintSunniva: My mother read it to us...and I subsequently read all the Little House books.

ahef1963: The Little House books were the background to all my childhood and early adolescent fantasies. I still want to ride in a covered wagon.

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

ahef1963: A childhood favourite; I read it so often that the spine fell apart.

Diane-bpcb: MAJOR SPOILER: (Haven't figured out the new Spoiler offering in LT.) Will never forget reading somewhere something by a girl who always fought with her sister, and how she felt when this sister, having read the book first, calls out, "Beth died."

deslivres5: I grew up in NYC and wanted to have that same adventure in the museum with MY younger brother.

ahef1963: Because of this book I took my young children to museums, where we always had fun planning where we'd hide out if we lived there.

aulsmith : Too gooey

aulsmith : Too weird for me. All that mumbo-jumbo about remembering being born.

SaintSunniva : I have never liked it - too weird, too scary, the queen, the cat, the hookah...Alice herself.

ahef1963 : Not a huge fan of it. I found it more creepy than anything.

sturlington: Meg is the first heroine I wanted to emulate.

ahef1963: Loved this book. It's probably the first fantasy book I ever read and re-read.

anglemark: The winter landscape on the other side of the wardrobe has haunted my imagination all my life.

ahef1963: My favourite of the Little House books.

Diane-bpcb: This was my favorite of the Little House books, which I just loved. My sister and I would play covered wagon, using our twin beds as our wagons, etc. Little did we know, in those days, that ancestors had gone West in a wagon train.

deslivres5: I remember loving the passages where she would eat fresh cheese when in the mountains. Yum!

aulsmith : I liked the way they used the stuff they borrowed, but I didn't really like them.

ahef1963: I used to build little homes for Borrowers in my dresser drawers. I loved this book.

sturlington: I did not read this until I was an adult and had my own child, but this is a terrific book for children.

Bookish59: Another favorite; so glad it's listed here.

ahef1963: Read in university for a children's lit course. Liked it so much that I found copies of the rest of the series.