Favourite book when you where a child?

[Bonchic]

Thomas the Ship Cat

 

[tuckbud14]

Dr. Suess
Doodlebug
Amelia Bedelia
Curious George - Monkeys
Paddington Bear
Bears Always Share
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie series)

Oh, how did i forget the Little House series? i loved all of them so much, that my brother and i sat in a book store YEARS after i stopped reading them with a little house trivia book. i got them all right, and my brother looked at me like i was crazy. i LOVED Laura!

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

Amelia Bedelia
Roald Dahl books
Curious George
Charlotte's Web
Paddington Bear
Dr. Seuss books
Ramona books by Beverly Cleary (I loved the videos too)
Sweet Valley series
Babysitters Club series (I LOVED those books; I remember I would like to read just the dialogue parts and pretend I was all of the characters; I loved acting out the stories. I even started my own club!)
The Berenstein Bears

I started to adore reading as soon as I learned how and I've never stopped.

 

[eternitygoddess]

All Beverly Clearly books

BoxCar Children

Nancy Drew

Encyclopedia Brown

All Roald Dahl books

 

[sogangsta]

-ditto to all the roald dahl and dr seuss

also
i learned to read by memorizing the wishing tree and chrysanthemum

 

[kiss&tell]

Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast
Snow White

 

[SweetFantasy]

Snow White
Bambi
Cinderella
Little Mermaid
Sleeping Beauty

 

[ruthie]

My favorite books as a child were Go, Dog, Go! by Dr. Suess, Goodnight Moon, and Where the Wild Things Are. I also really liked Richard Scarrey books.

 

[lcm]

goodnight moon

 

[phunk42]

Heidi

 

[deuxvirgule17]

The Neverending Story

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

I forgot The Little Engine That Could

 

[CherryBomb01]

Charlotte's Web
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
The Romona books
Baby Sitters Club
Sweet Valley High books - I had (still have) a huge collection.

 

[December_25th]

Judy Blume books (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret )
Babysitter's Club
Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson
Roald Dahl (Matilda , The Witches)

There are soo many books I loved back when I was a kid... sometimes if I'm at the library I'll browse through the young adult section and even take out a copy of old favourites such as Superfudge

 

[Deleted member 76519]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is still one of my favourite books.

 

[phantasmagoric]

-Dr. Zhivago
-assorted fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen
-short stories by Edgar Allen Poe
-Aesop's fables

 

[TheGlassAngel]

I always liked the Enid Blyton books...well, series.

 

[Liberty Bell]

The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. There is a Shirley Temple film where Erte did the designs, done in the 30s I think, that is absolutely outstanding. VHS only, unfortunately.
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Any children's book illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
A Thousand and One Nights, Tales of the Arabian Nights by H. W. Dulken

 

[deeth]

Moomin books by Tove Jansson (I still love them, my then-favourites were Who will comfort Toffle? and Moominsummer Madness. Now I love Moominvalley in November.)
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books by Astrid Lindgren (especially Ronia the Robber's Daughter and Pippi Longstocking)
books by Roald Dahl
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
stories by Hans Christian Andersen

 

[kissmesweet]

Dr. Seuss
Moominvalley books
Sweet Valley High
Alice in Wonderland
Le Petit Prince -- Saint-Exupery in French
The Hungry Caterpillar