Kids Books

[A kid at heart]

What books did you enjoy as a kid?After reading the other post on Judy Blume I started to think about it.
I loved the Beverly Clearly Beezus and Ramona books. Henry huggins was another.
The Judy Blume's were excellent too.
The Borrowers were really good as were the Eb. White ones.(charlottes web, stuart little etc)
I still have the Nancy Drew ones, I have the entire set and I hope that my DD would want to read them.
The Dana Girls were another good set of mysteries.
The Happy Hollisters
Donna Parker
Sweet Valley High
All of a kind Family

 

[PandyPaws]

I read just about anything I could get my hands on.....I loved to read. My mom signed me up for the children's book of the month club when I was 5 or 6, as a suprise, and I clearly remember getting that first book in the mail. I was so excited it felt like my birthday, LOL! I'd also drag home from the library a stack of books as big as I could manage to carry (no car back then, I had to walk with them ) , then I'd go back in two weeks and trade them in for more. My most favorite of all when I was 7 was Stuart Little. I renewed it over and over again.

 

[grinningghost]

I loved Judy Blume too. I turned my daughter on to her when she was about 8. I was also a big fan of all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. (I still am - I'm actually reading one of them now).

 

[aprincessmom]

Roald Dahl books (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc.)
Mary Poppins (P. Travers)
The Little House books (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little Women and Little Men (Louisa May Alcott)
Nancy Drew
Amelia Bedelia
Treasure Island
Through the Looking Glass

DD has been reading my old Mary Poppins collection. We already have been through the Dahl books, E.B. White, and Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates.

My mom was a big believer in not just reading the currents but classics and read them to us and with us early on. I have such great memories of books like these and read them with my DD.

 

[A kid at heart]

Pandy do you remember getting thos scholastic book orders every other month?

How could I have forgotten the Little house books? I have those too!

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder! and the "Black Stallion" series. and "A Little Princess". and anything by Roald Dahl. I read and reread Talyor's "All of A Kind Family" series until I had the whole story memorized.

guess that's why I started out as an English major in college -- though my degree is actually in hisotry (I was 3 credit sshort of teh double major and didn't feel like taking linguistics...)

I'm so gla my girls are "readers" too. we're already fighting over who will be the first to read the 5th Harry Potter book!

 

[EngrDaisy]

I still read lots of children's books. I would love to have a job that somehow involved lots of children's books. But anyway, here are some of my childhood favorites:

The 21 Balloons by William Pene du Bois
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

And of course, now in adulthood, I think that Harry Potter rocks! Yay!

 

[A kid at heart]

Mrs Piggle Wiggle books too!
BR is the all of a kind family the ones who were jewish and they had all girls and the one wore the sisters dress to a party and spilled tea on it so the mom had to dye the whole dress with Tea to get it all one color?

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Originally posted by A kid at heart

BR is the all of a kind family the ones who were jewish and they had all girls and the one wore the sisters dress to a party and spilled tea on it so the mom had to dye the whole dress with Tea to get it all one color?

yes.

I still cry when I think about Charlie and the library lady!

 

[grinningghost]

Harry Potter is amazing - I only wish he'd been around when I was a kid!

 

[A kid at heart]

I wonder if the library still has those books! All of a kind family.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

How many wonderful memories I have of childhood books (many of which I still have and even re-read).

Let's see: Judy Blume, Nancy Drew series, Judy Angell ("In Summertime It's Tuffy", "Ronnie & Rosey"), Laura Ingells Wilder, can't remember the author, but he wrote a series of books one of which was "The House With A Clock In It's Walls" (sketches in the book were Edward Gorrey like), "Summer of My German Soldier" and it's sequel, anything by Paula Danzinger (The Pistachio Prescription, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit)...Gosh there are so many!

I can still remember our 3rd Grade teacher reading aloud to us from books such as "The Flight of The Doves," & "The Prince & The Pauper."

Maybe this is why I have so many books in my house (I need my own library).

 

[alabamaalan]

Hmmmm...I'm trying to remember series.

In Elementary school, I enjoyed mysteries like Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, etc. I also enjoyed biographies (written for that age level)

I always brought home Scholastic Book ordres and was in a few book clubs (Disney, Weekly Reader, etc)

In middle school I moved on to Fantasy (Dragon Riders of Pern, Conan series, a few Piers Anthony,etc.)

Pretty much from high school on, it has been whatever non-fiction subject interested me at the time.

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

The series "Trixie Beldon" got me hooked onto reading. Anyone ever heard of them?

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

I remember Trixie Beldon!

I was very into Judy Blume, and later into SE Hinton. I think I read everything by each of them. Someone gave me Bobsy Twins books, and I was hooked on those as well.

 

[gina2000]

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Pushcart Wars

Cheaper by the Dozen

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

[A kid at heart]

Trixie Belden, I have that series too. I remember the cat ate my gymsuit.

 

[JAP]

Trixie Beldon was one of my favs. I also loved Little House on the Prairie and Laura Inglis Wilder. I also enjoyed all of Judy Blume's books.

I have not read Harry Potter but would like to.

 

[snoopy]

Oh, I loved the All of a Kind Family series. I can't believe you remembered these, BR! I had forgotten all about them, they were gems.

I was crazy about Ramona and Beezus Quimby as a kid. I read all of Beverly Cleary's books, but these two were my favorite characters.

I also devoured all the Encylopedia Brown books. I've picked up a few for my son for when he gets a little older, right now he is still a little young to appreciate them.

A Wrinkle in Time was one of those books I read about 50 times. Loved it, still do.

As I got a little older, I liked the S.E. Hinton books, especially The Outsiders. There was also another book I remember as being pretty profound for my young teen mind - "My Darling My Hamburger". Any other late 30-something early 40-something DIS'ers remember this? It was considered very risque at the time.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

I remember S.E. Hinton. Anyone else remember Paul Zindel as well (The Pigman).

There was another author who's name I can't recall that I remember reading a lot of in Jr. High. I think the title of one of the books was "Why Have The Birds Stopped Singing"; the main character had epilepsy, which I had never heard of at the time.

There was also another series I was fond of about a Jewish family at the turn of the century. I think there were 4 books in total. The family was all girls -- 4 I think...Charlotte, Henny, Sarah and...???? Does this ring a bell for anyone?