Favorite Childhood Books (3 Viewers)

[Taurus]

I loved The Chronicles of Prydain and was so incensed by the ending I actually wrote the author to chew him out.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

After my childhood, but I always made it a point to buy a copy of “The Stinky Cheese Man” for all my new nieces and nephews.

 

[where yat brah]

I don't understand why more kids don't enjoy this as much as I did.
I hated reading when I was kid and even now not a big fan.
But, I really got into these:

 

[Optimus Prime]

I don't understand why more kids don't enjoy this as much as I did.
I hated reading when I was kid and even now not a big fan.
But, I really got into these:

I tried reading them in grade school - couldn't get into them

 

[Optimus Prime]

I did read the first 3 or 4 OZ books by L. Frank Baum, I remember liking them, don't know why I never read more of them but I know it's a long series with like 30 books

 

[Optimus Prime]

I loved The Chronicles of Prydain and was so incensed by the ending I actually wrote the author to chew him out.

did he write back?

 

[Optimus Prime]

After my childhood, but I always made it a point to buy a copy of “The Stinky Cheese Man” for all my new nieces and nephews.

Don’t know that one but the two also did this one that I liked - I was older at this point but my little brother had it so I read it

 

[RaginCajun83]

no kid's library is complete without these

The first books that came to mind when I opened this thread

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I mostly read comics, biggest books impacts were A Wrinkle in Time (and subsequent books), and Chronicles of Narnia

Of books that were assigned but still had impact- Where the Ref Fern Grows
oof what a gut punch

 

[Eeyore]

In second grade my teacher read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to us. I noticed that I had a copy of that, and the great glass elevator at home and read them. That lead to Alice in Wonderland which I read over and again. I branched out to Mark Twain and then my mom demanded that I read the collected works of Poe. I liked some of it. In fourth grade it was Little Women. That was an amazing read.

 

[sOulsaint]

Not really childhood since the books were so sporadic. True childhood gotta be goosebumps.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Same same .. Encyclopedia Brown was my jam.. also greatly enjoyed the Hardy Boys .. and Judy Blume had a series of books for boys, i remember the male counterpart to Are you there god its me Margaret was a book called ‘Then Again maybe i Wont’… and did she write Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Superfudge or was that Beverly Cleary ? I think it was JB………. Anyway all that came to a halt in the 8th grade when i read Catcher in the Rye and since then life’s never been the same .

 

[Taurus]

did he write back?

Sadly Mr Alexander skipped his opportunity to improve the story.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Not really childhood since the books were so sporadic. True childhood gotta be goosebumps.

never read a single goosebumps book

but I definitely remember when they were huge

Probably the biggest kids book phenomenon until Harry Potter