Favorite Childhood Books

SaintSunniva: Such a lovely secret...the hidden garden, coming to life.

aulsmith : Didn't like romances even then.

RuMuse: Secret joy provides meaning

ahef1963: Loved this story.

Diane-bpcb: Seemed magical to me.

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."

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

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.

ahef1963: A great favourite of my children, to whom I read it countless times.

ahef1963 : I was always unsettled by the idea of an elephant king, and I was bothered by a book printed in italics.

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

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.

Bookish59: My love of mysteries started early!

Diane-bpcb: In addition to loving the mysteries--although I no longer read mystery stories--, I loved the set of blue-green cloth bound books which I sorted and re-sorted on my bookshelf.

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

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

Nycticebus: I loved the gentle bull, but more, I loved to trace the beautiful drawings.

sturlington: All-time favorite.

ahef1963: Didn't read until adulthood, but thought it a beautiful book.

timspalding : Scared me.

aulsmith : I liked the elephant and the boa constrictor, but then I lost the thread.

ahef1963 : In grade 13 French we spent an entire term - five months - reading this in French and it dragged on forever. Now I loathe it.

timspalding : Terrifying.

ahef1963: This was my favourite book to read to my sleepy children.

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.

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.

Bookish59: Another favorite!

ahef1963: My first poetry book! It had such far-reaching importance in my life.

Matke: Read pre-school learning to read through first grade. Loved this series then.

aulsmith : I think my fears of home invasion originated in this book.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

merrystar : Read as an adult

julie10reads: It bears repeating that Georgette Heyer's Regency novels are Jane Austen-ish romances told in a lavishly OED vocabulary with syntax to make H.V. Fowler jealous! The stories are witty, usually complicated and populated with adorable relatives, friends and rogues. You need a dictionary by your side as you read. Dare I say, I prefer Heyer to Austen!

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.

aulsmith : Found this in high school and was already too old for it.