Books you loved as a kid

[JenniferL]

What are some books that you enjoyed as a kid? I loved Narnia books, and fairytales. I also loved this series that was about a planet made entirely of mushrooms. A couple of kids build themselves a spaceship and travel there. Its pure 1950's schlock sci fi and I absolutely loved it.

[Maria]

I was a huge huge huge fan of the Bobsey kids. I remember reading them in the dark of my room, scared out of my wits. I loved them and I probably have like twenty of them stored somewhere in my parents' basement.

[StaffMaster]

Dale Brown and Tom Clancy.

 

I was obsessed with the military. My whole family had served and there was nothing I wanted more than to be in the military and learn as much about it as I could.

 

Still got the interest in learning about it. I'm over the serving in it part now though.

[Mendorah]

The Saddle Club book series. Most of my friends were reading the Babysitter's Club books, and I read a few too and liked them, but The Saddle Club books were the ones I'd pre-order from the bookstore and wait for.

 

I was so jealous of those girls for being able to take riding lessons. Since I was a farmgirl, I learned a lot about the horseworld from those books. My horse just knew how to go forward. I wanted to jump fences like they did.

[Guest Emperor]

Encyclopedia Brown Series... I really wanted their fort in the junkyard.

 

A Wrinkle in Time and all the books that followed.

 

Dean Koontz, my gateway into adult fiction

 

Of course Tolkien was my gateway into Fantasy

[Jhaenara]

I didn't read as much as a kid. I still don't read a ton now, just what really interests me.

 

Emp reminded me of "A Wrinkle in Time" and I read some of the Narnia books. I also read this series about a group of kids that solved mysteries, but I can't think of the name. Not the usual ones you think of.

[StaffMaster]

Box-Car Kids? Bobsey Twins?

[Jhaenara]

No... not that old I think. Though I did read some Box-car Kids I think. :)

[MsDanya]

oh, I read all kinds if books when I was a kid!! but my favourite must have been the Hobbit. I loved it! the dragon, he treasure, the journey!! it was awsome! I Read it over and over..

[Niamh Sedai]

My first ever favourite book was this book called "Dogger", about a boy called Davey who loses his toy Dog called Dogger and he has to find him *gasp*

 

As I got older I loved the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton until I met a certain Boy called Harry Potter when I was ten. And thus, my life was set ;)

[Adanza]

Well, the first book i ever owned was "where's Spot?" I read it once and found Spot. but it made for a very boring re-read!

 

i loved Encyclopedia Brown and the Boxcar Children, but my favorite was The Prydain Chronicles. I also enjoyed the Girls vs Boys series. I think it was by Naylor...anyway, i loved all of the pranks they'd pull on each other!

[Nailea]

I read the Babysitter's Club books when I was younger. I also read a lot of Stephen King's stories, I used to love being scared but now I'm a wimp when it comes to scary books and movies :P

[Kiara]

David Eddings' Belgariad, LJ Smiths' series, Stephen King, Anne McCaffrey, Dean Koontz, Christopher Pike, Mercedes Lackey... pretty much anything I could pick up. LOL. I read lots of mythology and such as well. I'd read my way through the children and young adults' sections of the library by the time I was 9 or so. After that, I graduated to the regular "adult" fiction. I still remember that I shocked the hell out of my 5th (and 6th, now that I think about it) grade teacher when I dragged all 1100 and some pages of Stephen King's IT in to school with me. :lol:

[Tessandra]

My all-time favorite book as a kid was Charlotte's Web by E.B. White :D I read it -so- many times and never got tired of it. I still have the same beat up copy from when I was little.

[Guest Majsju]

Being Swedish and all, Astrid Lindgren's books where of course my favourites. Still love them, and read on a regular basis.

 

Other than that, Narnia, Enid Blyton's Famous Five-novels, W.E Jones Bigglers-novels, the Three Investigators-novels.

And collections of Swedish folklore.

 

And while not exactly books, always loved Tintin, the Smurfs and Asterix :D

[King of the Reds]

Another one for the Encyclopedia Brown books. I also loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

 

Ender

[StaffMaster]

I liked those too....never followed them right though...Always skipped around to find the best adventure. :D

[Adanza]

oh, I forgot about those!! I wonder if my library still has them?...

 

i also liked the Clue books...except Mrs. Peacock was so annoying!

[Jhaenara]

Ohh yeah, Choose Your Own Adeventure were win... and I did what Staffy did too... haha.

[U4ea]

Ah, Which Way? books, I loved those. LOL

 

My other favorites:

 

Like Emp, I loved A Wrinkle in Time and the rest of those books.

 

I loved The Chocolate War, too. I picked it up because of the name, but I really enjoyed the book!

 

Other than that, I didn't read too much as a kid. Once I hit High School and my best friend put a historical fiction novel in my hand, however, that all changed. I haven't been without a book in my purse (or really close by) since then. My first HF novel, btw, was Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey. *grins* So, I guess you could say the Green was born in High School...[/i]

[Dahmir]

Hmmmmm...Books that I read as a kid were...

Goosebumps by R.L. Stine. I love horror books.

Another would be Disney children books. My mom bought a lot of them but now, we donated them to the library T_T.

[Elyssa]

So many good books mentioned but I loved Charlotte's web and the babysitters club and Sweet Valley High. I was such a girl.

[Dwynwen]

Let's see here...

 

Babysitters' Club

Nancy Drew

Judy Blume books

Beverly Cleary's Ramona books

Narnia series

LOTR series

Bobsey Twins

[Corki]

As a young child, I loved the Hungry Caterpillar! The number of times I read that book are phenonimal!

 

As I got older, I loved Brian Jacques' Redwall Series. I occasionally read them now as well!

 

I was also a big fan of Philip Pullman. I can't remember the name of the series, but it contained the books The Tiger in the Well, The Ruby in the Smoke and one other book I can't remember.

 

I also enjoyed the humour in Terry Dreary's Horrible Histories books, which covered all famous periods of History, mainly in the UK, but also other places.

 

It was only once I turned 16 or so that I seriously got into reading. And for that, I must blame David Eddings, and his Elenium Trilogy and Tamuli Trilogy. Those were also the books that hooked me on fantasy!

[Niamh Sedai]

How could I forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar! or The Tiger who Came to Tea. Classic literature right there :P

 

The Tiger in the Well etc were all about Sally Lockhart ;) In fact a dramatised version of "The Ruby in the Smoke" staring Billie Piper will be shown on the BBC over the winter =D

 

And Horrible Histories are legendary *nods*