Hi,
What was your best read, when you were little?
Mine was all the adorable 'Just William' books, Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Five Find-Outers (though I detested Secret Seven are their boring meetings!).
And oh, her Enchanted Tree series, and her boarding school series'...
Hmmm... It's hard to really recall what I read the most as I did a LOT of reading:
Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit, Enchanted Tree, Wishing Chair, etc...
W. E. Johns' Biggles series (mostly the WW1 books, but eventually got right into all the non-war adventures)
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George's Marvellous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach, Boy, Going Solo, Esio Trot, The Twits, The Witches
It's really hard to pick. I think I probably read more Enid Blyton than any of the others, and then it becomes a toss-up between the Brer Rabbit and Enchanted Tree stories.
Hmmm....
*searches for eBooks*
Hmmm...favorite books as a kid...
Wait Till Helen Comes, by Mary Downing Hahn
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by...Mildred Delois Taylor
There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Dr Suess
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (I, II, and III!), Alvin Schwartz
The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, Jane Thayer
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Robert C. O'Brien
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Polk Street Kids series, Patricia Reilly Giff
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
oh, um...what was that book,...True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi (that's a great one!)
Oh yes...
Anne Of green Gables...
..oh wow!
who could forget Anne with an e?
I love "Where the Red Fern Grows" as well as "Johnathan Livinston Seagull". I also read a book called "The Dragon Knight" when I was younger that was truly excellent and I re-read the whole series just a couple years ago.
And of course, the old favourite "Chronicles of Narnia". I read the whole series of that when I was younger and it was a blast.
| divya wrote: |
Hi,
What was your best read, when you were little?
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When I first read your question three books came into mind:
1) Small Pig
...a story about a pig who left the farm to seek a nice soft pool of mud. He ended up in the city and he thought he found mud but he ended up getting stuck cement. (hey.... as a second grader that story line was entertaining!)
2) The Giving Tree
I think everyone has read this one once in their lifetime, if not you should despite the fact that it's a picture book. ...a great story about a boy who became best friends with this tree and the tree provided the boy with what he needed.
3) Harold and the Purple Crayon
I remember this book... Harold drew everything he needed/wanted with his purple crayon.
ah... memories... those were the days...I always liked those Richard Scary books. And offcourse Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton (yes, even in Belgium these were famous books 
)
There were also this Swedish books I liked about an old men and his cat, but I can't remember his name anymore... | divya wrote: |
Hi,
What was your best read, when you were little?
Mine was all the adorable 'Just William' books, Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Five Find-Outers (though I detested Secret Seven are their boring meetings!).
And oh, her Enchanted Tree series, and her boarding school series'... |
my school's ATLAS book....i love to study about different country, thier geography,etc...Louis Sachar's Westside School is Falling Down. I read it over and over again. It was a great book and it captured my imagination like no other book has since. Except for maybe Redwall. I read the entire series (at least for that time) in second grade. Needless to say, I was the best / fastest reader in the second grade.
When I was little, I loved the series of golden border books. I forgot the name of the series, but they included Disney related movies such as the Lion King or educational topics such as Dinosaurs. I had about ten books of the series where there are probably over 60 or 70 tota.
Other novels I liked were:
The Westing Game - Seriously a great follow-along mystery book with a large and quirky cast that made the entire story flow along well. It also had a fair amount of twists, but not too many.
Alvin's Secret Code - Another great along adventure book with some codes in the novel that you could solve. The reason I remember this book is when I read it, I went through that phase in childhood where you wanted to build forts, use walkie-talkies and use secret codes and ciphers.
I loved Enid Blyton's books when I was a kid - her enchanting world's of trolls, fairies always made me wonder. Famous Five series were my bedtime reading books. Tintin comics were really entertaining. I love a lot of comics when I was little - garfield, Les 4 As, Picsou & co. etc. Christopher Pike's books were also my favourites (or any other horror books in fact). There are also Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, fairy tales (sweet stories for little girls 
) that I just loved. Well, I think that there were many more but it's a bit hard to recall... but I was and is still a bookworm. | KatanaSky wrote: |
| divya wrote: | Hi,
What was your best read, when you were little?
|
2) The Giving Tree
I think everyone has read this one once in their lifetime, if not you should despite the fact that it's a picture book. ...a great story about a boy who became best friends with this tree and the tree provided the boy with what he needed. |
The Giving Tree is one of my favourite books of all time. It is so beautiful, and always makes me cry.
My favourite book as a child was Alice In Wonderland, or I suppose more properly "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." It continues to be a favourite to this day.
I also loved Edward Lear's poetry ... The Owl And The Pussycat comes to mind. I loved the sound of it, and Seuss.
These are all the books that I give my nieces to this day, but they don't seem to enjoy them as I did. They are more into webkins and DVDs and computer games. It makes me sad.I liked The Chronicles of Narnia and later in years Harry Potter.
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| I liked The Chronicles of Narnia and later in years Harry Potter. |
I actually never read the Narnia books until just this year. Of course, I'd seen the old version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but that doesn't even do the book justice (and neither does the new one, by the way). They're so simple in their execution, but then are so vast in the realm of their stories. I have to say, even at the tender age of 19, I find them better books than most novels written today.I used to be REALLY into the Choose Your Own Adventure Books - mostly written in 2nd Person P.O.V. The way the books were set up... the reader is able to choose what happened next and what I really liked... I was able to go back to the beginning and see what would happen if I chose something different. There was always more than one ending.
