Favorite Childhood Books

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

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.

sturlington: My father read it aloud to me when I was 5 or 6. It's a wonderful memory.

Drapetsona: actually, I never read it as a child. I wish I had.

merrystar : I never liked this one for some reason

Diane-bpcb: A friend, who had taught grade school got me to read this finally. How did I miss it all these years!! (We read "Stuart Little instead in school, which I also loved.)

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.

ahef1963: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

timspalding : I hated this book. Pippi's life terrified me.

deslivres5: Her pigtails and her monkey captured my attention. Her wild adventures and unorthodox lifestyle were an eye opener.

timspalding : Scared me. Seemed needlessly cruel. I still feel this way.

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

aulsmith : Too gooey

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

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

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

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

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

ahef1963: I didn't read this until I was in my 40s, but loved it just the same.

Drapetsona: Great book of my childhood, although very creepy. Couldn't sleep after reading it, but I had to go on...

ahef1963: Not a book I would give to children; I find it frightening even as an adult, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

timspalding : Terrifying.

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

ahef1963: The conclusion of this novel thrills me to this day.

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.

ahef1963: This was my son's favourite story. He asked for it over and over.

Diane-bpcb: Believe that this was read to me. The determined engine made me happy.

TCate: Discovered this in my late teens. A boy I used to baby-sit introduced me to the book.

Diane-bpcb: Loved this E.B. White book, which we read in school. Don't remember much about it.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

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.

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: Loved to read English books; still do.

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

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

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

sturlington: All-time favorite.

Drapetsona: When I finally came to read it after having collected so much bubble gum pictures of the Disney movie, I found it astonishing and very adult. I loved it. Favourites: Rikki Tikki, the little seal and the elephant boy.

ahef1963 : I found this terribly creepy.

aulsmith : Liked it the first time, but was bored on the re-read

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 : I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. I do not, do not. There I am

sturlington : Tedious.

Bookish59: Don't recall how old I was when I read this book; just that I loved it!

fuzzi : Depressing stories. The only one I liked was The Tinder Box.

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.