What were your favorite childhood books

pennysuedog · July 2012

Not school aged but preschool aged.

Mine were:

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee · July 2012

Eloise (obviously), Madeline, American Girl books, Little House on the Prairie, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea, The Saddle Club.

ETA: reading comprehension fail- but preschool I loved Eloise, Madeline, Paddington Bear, Corduroy, Hop on Pop, and my mom read me the Little House on the Prairie series. The others were grade school.

LCass · July 2012

I loved this book and knew it off by heart by kindergarten (I thought at the time that I was reading it, but I was just reciting it, I think).

I also remember loving all the Little Miss and Mr books, The Cat in the Hat (and Comes Back), and Noddy books.

ETA: Remembered some others! I also loved Richard Scarry books, especially this one:

Jazzym12 · July 2012

I love "if you give a mouse a cookie." I'm not sure why but it was my all time favorite.

AngLK987 · July 2012

Good Dog, Carl:

kagl08 · July 2012

I loved that Popcorn book!! I also loved The Emperor's New Clothes.

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee · July 2012

LCass- me and my brothers were huge Richard Scarry readers. My son LOVES his books.

Ginny0211 · July 2012

AngLK987:
Good Dog, Carl:

thank you! I was just describing this book the other day to someone and I could not remember the name of it. No one else knew what I was talking about.

Such a cute book. And it's funny how reading this as a child it seemed perfectly normal for a dog to babysit a baby.

aml+japan · July 2012

I wish my dog would babysit L so I could go out drinking!

I was obsessed with these four. I think it was because my mom never let us have a pet.

Now that you've reminded me, I'm going to have to order them for L!

[Deleted User] · July 2012

Duh:

Also:

[Deleted User] · July 2012

"Not school aged but preschool aged."

Oh. Missed this part.

kmart1tm · July 2012

I loved the jolly postman and the shel Silverstein books amongst many others. My all time favorite was this a nursery rhyme book. I looooved reciting nursery rhymes.

LadyMadrid08 · July 2012

ETA: And Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic (favorite poem being Mrs. McTwitter the Babysitter!)

Bread and Jam for Frances:

Bread and Jam for Frances

The Poky Little Puppy

All the Peter Rabbit (and friends) Books by Beatrix Potter

aml+japan · July 2012

Have you ever heard Shel Silverstein read his own books? At the day care I worked at we had The Giving Tree with the audio CD. Freaked the kids out every time!

mamaZbo · July 2012

My favorites were "The Little Engine that Could", "Willy Woo Woo", and the mister book... I still remember the anticipation of getting tickled at the end of reading Mr. Tickle.