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.

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.

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: 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."

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.

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.

aulsmith : Too gooey

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

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.

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.

timspalding: I loved Ferdinand.

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

sturlington: All-time favorite.

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

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

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

sturlington : Did not read until college.

Anjali.Negi : Not a book for children

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

ahef1963 : I found this terribly creepy.

timspalding : Terrifying.

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

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

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

aulsmith : Duplicate on the list

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.

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

Diane-bpcb: There's a Betsy-Tacy society active in Mankato, Minnesota, where you can visit the Betsy and Tacy houses side-by-side in town. I loved all the[ Betsy-Tacy and Tib] books. At the time I read them, I believed that life really had existed in those days without the problems of the 20th century. The friendship of the girls was wonderful. Escapism when I needed it.

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.