Favorite Childhood Books

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.

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."

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.

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.)

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: The Little House books were my childhood favourites.

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

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

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.

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.

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

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

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

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

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

ahef1963 : I found this terribly creepy.

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.

timspalding : Terrifying.

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

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

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

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

sturlington: All-time favorite.

aulsmith : My younger sister's favorite. Got boring quickly.

ahef1963: My favourite Dr. Seuss book! Do you like my hat?

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.

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.

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.

ahef1963: I cried so much over this book. Such a beautiful work.

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.

aulsmith : Too dark

timspalding : Too sad.

katie4098 : I only came to appreciate this book as an adult. As a child, I remember feeling really sad when the school librarian read it aloud to us. I didn't like it at all then.

Bookish59: Another favorite!

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

sturlington: Duplicate

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

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

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

sturlington : Tedious.