Favorite Childhood Books

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 : Cannot handle cruel treatment of animals in stories. This book gave me nightmares.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

ahef1963: I wanted to run away and live in a tree.

sturlington : My 4th grade teacher reading this while putting on bright red lipstick is a traumatic memory for 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.

aulsmith : Too gooey

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

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

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.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

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

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.

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.

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

ahef1963: Oh, Reepicheep and the waters that run sweet, I always wanted to join you.

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...

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

ahef1963 : I don't like stories being told within stories, and this book had far too much of that.

timspalding: I remember the revelation that his tutor was a half-dwarf as… mind-blowing!