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Favorite Children's Books

Kateri

On the Ice
Joined
Mar 22, 2004
Barmy Jeffers and the Quasimodo Walk.

A forgotten classic.

(also: The Return of Barmy Jeffers and the Quasimodo Walk, and Barmy Jeffers and the Shrinking Potion.)


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cygnus

Rinkside
Joined
Aug 7, 2003
Okay, I'll play, with some qualifications

Books I loved as a kid, and still love

Little House on the Prairie series
Anne of green gables series
Chalet School books
Green Knowe series (historical/fantasy) LM Boston
Mantlemass series (historical) B Willard
Charlotte's Web (hated Stuart Little, though!)
Little Women
Hester Burton's Historicals
Secret Garden\Little Princess

Books I loved as a kid, but can't stand now

Enid Blyton's mysteries (even as a kid I found the racism/sexism annoying- as an adult it's intolerable)
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys (I can read some of the earlier editions- the more modern ones have really been "dumbed down")

Kid's Books I read as an adult and I love

Harry Potter
Susan Cooper's Over Sea under Stone and sequels
Madeline L'Engels books (especially Many Waters- a masterpiece!)
Earthsea Trilogy

Book other kids loved, but I never could get into (as a kid or an adult!)

Anything by Judy Blume (can't stand "issues" books)
Roald Dahl novels
 

Lotta

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
The Berenstein Bears- This was one of my first influences of cartooning and creating a cartoon series of my own. :)

Babysitter's Club- but I always thought they were sh---y. :laugh:

Sweet Valley whatever whatever. I thought those were sh---y also! But I read them. :(

Goosebumps!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have about four Goosebumps book and I want those ones where you read at the bottom and you choose where to go and you have to turn the page. I never did get scared of the stories! *LOLZ* And plus I always thought they were sorta cheesy, even as a kid I thought that!!
 

Lucy25

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 31, 2003
Great topic!
When I was younger, I would read and reread these books:
- Little House in the Prairie series
- All the Ramona books
- All the Judy Blume books
- Anyone here read The Great Brain series of books? Loved these!
- All the Beverly Cleary books for teens

I also ate up every Peanuts comic strip books I could get my hands on.

Has anyone seen the movie preview for The Polar Express? Wow, it looks incredible. I got goosebumps when I saw it yesterday.
 
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