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What are your favorite books from childhood?

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IDEAL Singh
 
Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:31 pm
What are your favorite books from childhood?
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:45 pm
Jinks of Jason Valley
The Black Stallion series, by W. Farley
The Island Stallion series, by W. Farley
Peter Rabbit
Grimme's Fairy Tales
Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:51 pm
The Wind in the Willows
The Lord of the Rings (enjoyed it much more as a child, although that hasn't stopped me reading it four or five times over the years . . . )
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse
The Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johnny Tremaine
A Rabble in Arms
Robinson Crusoe
and the Borrowers series: The Borrowers, The Borrower's Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft . . .
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eoe
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:55 pm
The Cat in the Hat
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littlek
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 11:40 pm
Very young: anything Dr Suess, RikkiTikkiTembo(etc). It's funny, I forget about them until I run into a copy, which I do often these days working with little tikes.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:32 am
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Little Lame Prince
Heidi
Heidi
Heidi
Heidi
Heidi
Huckleberry Finn
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:47 am
I would concur with a few already mentioned:

Peter Rabbit
Grimm's fairy tales (Hans Christian Anderson was lame)
The Wind in the Willows
The Lord of the Rings
I was a sci-fi fan, and sucked up anything by Issac Asimov and Ray Bradbury
Le Morte D'Arthur
Charles Dickens
Henry Miller (okay, maybe I was a bit older)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
When I was very small, Miffy
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jnfr
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 06:10 pm
Alice and....what she saw through the looking glass? (don't remember the exact name...I do remember I much preferred this one to IN Wonderland, though, don't remember why...)
Wind in the Willows
The Little Princess
Lord of the Rings
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
The BFG (anything by Dahl, really)
Watership Down
Anne of Green Gables
Laura Ingalls Wilder series....those were the first "big" books I ever read!
so many others.....ah, the memories Smile
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fealola
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 06:12 pm
No doubt about it. A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett

and Dr. Seuss
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jnfr
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 06:18 pm
oh man. I L-O-V-E-D those illustrations by Tasha Tudor....brought the book so alive for me! I let my little sis read my copy of it a few months ago, but was VERY hesitant for fear of my beloved copy getting ripped! (which it did, by the way....sigh....at least she enjoyed it....)

oh yeah,,,the Chronicles of Narnia had a big impact on me though....so sad when you find out that Susan doesn't get to heaven! *sniff*
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fealola
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 06:23 pm
Mine was a very old copy of my mothers and I think the illustrations were gone by then. Fell out. I even remember that all of page 3 or 4 was gone. But I stil read it over and over.
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jnfr
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 06:39 pm
http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/1230000/1237447.gif

this is a copy of the Little Princess w/illustrations by tasha tudor.....not sure if the pic will show up, though....here's hoping!
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jespah
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:17 pm
I agree with many of those already mentioned. How 'bout The Phantom Tollbooth?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:32 pm
Superman and Archie comic books.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:39 pm
CI
I loved comic books.
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jnfr
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 07:57 pm
I get Archie comics in my stocking every christmas Smile
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Rae
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 08:00 pm
Clifford the Big Red Dog and anything by Dr. Seuss.
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eoe
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 08:07 pm
Oh my. The memories of Archie comic books, the separate Betty and Veronica books in particular. They were so fashion oriented in the late 60's, keeping uo with the very latest trends, as was Josie, who was Veronica's cousin? Or was she Betty's cousin? As a budding fashion designer, these comics were like research material, the stuff my whole world was made of back then. What a goldmine!
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NeoGuin
 
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Reply Sat 4 Oct, 2003 08:15 pm
OH BOY:

Harriet The Spy

James And The Giant Peach (I have memories of me sitting on a cushion on the front porch in flip-flops reading this with my radio tuned in)

From The Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler(The author attended my HS for a year)

The Pydrian Chronicles (Black Cauldron, etc)

Aseop's Fables
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hobitbob
 
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Reply Sat 11 Oct, 2003 12:17 am
Susan cooper's "The Dark is Rising " series.
Anne McCafferery's "Harper Hall" books.
Charles DeLint's "Riddle of the Wren," et al...
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