Your Favorite Books From Childhood!

Make your list here:

http://www.librarything.com/list/46/all/Favorite-Childhood-Books

Have fun! :)

Here's my list, in approximate order of most favorite to slightly less favorite:

The Jungle Book
White Fang
The Phantom Tollbooth
Silver Chief: Dog of the North
Kazan
Jump-shy
Irish Red
The Incredible Journey
Sky Rocket: The Story of a Little Bay Horse
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Black Stallion
The One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Call of the Wild
King of the Wind
The Cricket in Times Square
The Lord of the Rings
Ghosts Who Went to School
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Lochinvar Luck
Lad: A Dog
White Ruff
Little Vic
Christmas Horse
Snow Dog
Savage Sam
The white pony in the hills
My Side of the Mountain
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Wind in the Willows
Big Red
The Silver Sword
Call It Courage
Fire-Hunter
Magic Elizabeth
The Secret Language
The Avion My Uncle Flew
Little House Boxed Set (1-9)
Black Beauty
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Emil and the Detectives
The Hobbit
Henry and the Paper Route
Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service
Mrs. Coverlet's Magicians
The Light in the Forest
Just So Stories
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Thunderhead
My Friend Flicka
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Rascal
The Tide in the Attic
Champion Dog Prince Tom
Light a Single Candle
Lassie Come-Home
Baby Island
Karen
Homer Price
Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
Around the World in Eighty Days
While Mrs. Coverlet Was Away
The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Prydain Chronicles
The Good Master
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Madeline

There were more books that I read as a child that I could have added, but these were ones that I either read over and over, or remember fondly.

Lord-bird, fuzzi! Did you ever have time to go out and play?! When I think of kid's books, in my own case, I mean long long ago, at the dawn of my ability to read on my own (age five). My hand-down favourite was a twenty-volume set which I still have: The Young Folks' Library, edited by the genial but now forgotten Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Though in ruinous condition, it's still with me, as I have the hope that somebody else might find pleasure in it, not leastwise because of the steel-engravings and the colour plates. Incidentally, I have no idea why just now, LT's software from Hell offers-up Peter Rabbit as a Touchstone. Anyway, much of my early consciousness of history, world-travel, and mythology came from that set. It's only recently that I have conjectured that it might have belonged to my Grandfather (God rest him) for whom I am named (Goddard, not "Harry").

In re #3 atque 4. Let everyone understand that what follows is NOT an attempt to exploit this Group for free advertising. Anyway, Collectorator, I tried to send you a Personal Message, but for some reason your Profile page seems to have blocked this mechanism. I would like to discuss what you said, but not waste other people's time in the Group. if so inclined, YOU try to send ME a PM about that set, and we'll see what happens. Thanks in advance! -- Goddard ("Harry")

Harry, I did go out and play, but I was the "oops" third child. My sisters were too much older to play with me, and there weren't a lot of kids in the area to play with.

And we were not allowed to watch television on school nights.

Books were my friends...I read a lot. :)

EDIT: I have over 400 books listed in my children/youth category, and I know I've forgotten many:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fuzzi

That was fun.

I read a lot too. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we all read a lot or we wouldn't be here.

I'll re-order and add to my list later. I just went through the "general" list and picked off the ones I remembered liking. My top favorites are the Little House books (probably from growing up in SD), followed by the Oz books & Dr. Doolittle. Also loved the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

I had a few bumps teasing apart my childhood favorites from my favorites as a preschool teacher, and also children's books that I've read because of my daughter. Many of the books that came with my daughter had been written by the time I was a child but for whatever reason I didn't read them then.

I loved that an encyclopedia set was on the master list.

>7 SilverKitty: Yup, I think most big readers tend to be the life-long sort. I was always reading.

I went through the first page of the list so far, but there's soooo many on that list, I don't know if I'll go through much more of it!

Inspired by this posting, I tracked down and re-read a childhood favorite, Dreams of Victory. It's not classic literature, and has a definite 70's feel to it. Some books really don't stand the test of time - The Five Little Pepper and How they grew falls into this category for me, but Dreams of Victory was a very enjoyable re-read.

My sister and I repeatedly read a library book we both loved. As an adult, I tried to find it again to give to her as a surprise gift. But I had remembered it as Eve & Plum, and it wasn't until I thought to google just "and Plum" that I found I had mis-remembered. I immediately bought a copy of Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald.

It wasn't nearly as long as I thought it would be, but was still a very satisfactory read. Tugs at the heartstrings.
I have no idea what ever happened to Eve.