Favourite Books from My Childhood
I've always loved books and since I was young I've needed to have at least one book to read (or reread) at all times. Here are some of my favourite books when I was growing up:
- Nancy Drew
- The Babysitters Club
- Bad Jelly the Witch
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Rebecca's World
- Any books written by Tamora Pierce or Sheryl Jordan
- The Hobbit
- Goosebumps
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YAY Tamora Pierce, she's still writing and I still read her books
I read most of your list plus
Ezra Jack Keat's books
Jane Yolen's books
The Frances Books by Russell Hoban
Anne of Green Gables
Amelia Bedelia
Sid Fleischman Books
Everything by Roald Dahl, A Wrinkle in Time and all that followed and The Box Car Children.
~ Walk Two Moons
~ Ronia the Robber's Daughter
~ Nancy Drew books
~ Things Not Seen
~ A Great and Terrible Beauty
+Tamora Pierce!! I still love her books (except for her Circle of Magic series... somehow, I never got into that one). In fifth grade I had Alanna: The First Adventure and In the Hand of the Goddess checked out from our school library for pretty much the entire year.
+Baby-Sitters Club
+Sweet Valley Twins/Middle/High/University
+Beauty by Robin McKinley
+Swiss Family Robinson
Many of the ones previously mentioned, plus
- The Oz series by L. Frank Baum
- A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
- just about anything fantasy
Oh the Babysitters Club was a personal fave!!! I also loved Stephanie Tanner's Full House series!
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret!!!!
Make that everything Judy Blume, Ronald Dahl and Dr. Suess.
I was a HUGE BSC fan when I was younger. As I got a bit older, I loved loved loved Monica Hughes, especially "Invitation to the Game", I was actually considering writing a post about this soon!
-The old Tarzan books from my father's childhood. Best books ever and I had a crush on Tarzan's son!
-Nancy Drew
-Lassie comes home
-Laika (Finnish book about a horse and a boy and their friendship)
-The Babysitters Club
The Anne of Green Gables series and Gone With the Wind/Scarlett. STILL rereading them all these years later!
Yes to all of these--and wow, I thought I was the only one who knew about Ronia the Robber's Daughter! I reread Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and My Side of the Mountain countless times. I also got a strange pleasure from Catherine, Called Birdy.
I was obsessed with the Redwall series. So obsessed that I wrote my own version of a Redwall novel, starring myself as a Warrior Squirrel. It was 100 pages and I sent a synopsis to Brian Jacques, the author.
roald dahl, charlotte's web and chronicles of narnia
I second Charlotte's Web!
And anything/everything by Robert Munsch.
Judy Blume
The Babysitters' Club
Sweet Valley anything
And...A Dog Called Kitty.
That last one still makes me cry.
Milly-Molly-Mandy
Baby Sitters Club
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie
Famous Five
Secret Seven
The Faraway Tree
Just realised they are all series.
American Girl books
I had EVERY SINGLE Babysitters Club book there was. Anne Martin was my childhood hero. I'm a writer nowadays, and I credit those books with giving me my love for storytelling and ensemble casts in books.
:)
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