S/O Children's Books

NativeFloridian · August 2013

What was YOUR favorite book as a kid/teenager?

As a young kid my favorites were No One Noticed Ralph, Tiki Tiki Tembo, and just about anything Seuss.

As a tween I like the Santa Paws books, the Animorphs series, and Goosebumps.

As a teen I liked Farenheit 451 and the Harry Potter series (though my love for that series actually started at age 11 or so).

Actually, I still love all of those books. How about yous guise?

fancynewbeesly · August 2013

As a kid: Too loose the chocolate moose and The Patchwork Quilt Fish. Growing up I loved books by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl and Beverly Cleary.

Spin313 · August 2013

I loved Shel Silverstein, the Berenstain Bears, Ramona Quimby, and RL Stein's Fear Street

Whenigrowup · August 2013

Beauty by Bill Wallace. It was the first book that made me cry, uncontrollably.

My Side of the Mountain--I wanted to run off and live in the wilderness.

SVT, BSC, SVH, Sleepover Friends, and the Saddle Club--series where I couldn't wait to read the next one.

Soxgirl07 · August 2013

I remember Tiki Tiki Tembo, too!

Judy Blume books

Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables series (all 8 of them)

Little Women

The Babysitters' Club, Sweet Valley High series

ifwisheswerefishes · August 2013

As a little little kid: Goodnight Moon, the Old Bear Series by Jane Hissy (actually getting these for LO for her first birthday), and The Colour Kittens.

I learned to read really young and so I started reading chapter books pretty early and obsessively. As a older kid/tween: Boxcar Children, Babysitter's Club, Series of Unfortunate Events, the Redwall Series, and a whole fucking pile more. I read so much it actually pissed the librarians off, which I always thought was kinda weird.

As a teen/now: Eragon, Inkheart, everything by Tamora Pierce, Harry Potter (not until I was 18 and moved out though, thanks to my parents)....just about anything in the fantasy genre. I also fell in love with this series called "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson," which I still love to this day, because they're British humor and so fucking hilarious.

NativeFloridian · August 2013

Soxgirl07 said:
I remember Tiki Tiki Tembo, too!

Judy Blume books

Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables series (all 8 of them)

Little Women

The Babysitters' Club, Sweet Valley High series

LOVE Anne of Green Gables still! I have all the live action movies, lol.

SoDoMojo · August 2013

When I was a kid I loved anything Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. As a tween it was Goosebumps. I wouldn't say I LOVED Anne Rice... but that what seemed to be "cool" to be into when I was a teen, so that's what I read.

SoDoMojo · August 2013

I just recently checked out Where the Sidewalk Ends and this made me fucking cry in the park:

Soxgirl07 · August 2013

Oh, we loved the Uncle Remus stories. My dad did awesome voices and the illustrations were fabulous. I don't remember the racial undertones but they're really hard to find today...

missymo · August 2013

As a youngster I loved all the Bernstein Bears books. I think I had every single one.

As I got older I was obsessed with Sweet Valley Twins and Babysitters Club. I also dug Fear Street and Christopher Pike.

Hands down, though, my favorite was the Anne of Green Gables series. I've saved those, along with all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, to read with my daughter. I can't wait!

missymo · August 2013

@LexiLupin, it looks like we have similar taste in books!

74dragonfly · August 2013

Judy blume books

wesleycrusher · August 2013

Value Tales, Goosebumps, Baby Sitters Club, Fear Street , Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children, American Girl. Anything by Avi, Tamora Pierce, Christopeher Pike, Jean Thesman and Ann Rinaldi.

And so so many more. I love to read. I did an Independent Study in library science in high school.

Karbird5 · August 2013

I remember reading Black Beauty in third grade and I adored it. I also remember A Wrinkle in Time and Island of the Blue Dolphins. What was the incestuous kids in the attic series? I tore thru those. In high school I read absolutely anything Steven King.

LBib · August 2013

Anything Robert Munsch, especially Paperbag Princess and Jonathan Cleaned Up, Then He Heard a Sound
Noddy books by Enid Blyton
All Roald Dhal
All Kit Pearson
BSC and a bit of SVH books
Star Trek TNG books
Piers Anthony Xanth series

littlestjerry · August 2013

Babysitters club books ran my life. I loved Goosebumps too and Boxcar Children when I was younger. I still have all my old Berenstein Bears books! Ooh, and Encyclopedia Brown.

klondikebar · August 2013

I had just discovered my love of sci-fi as a teenager. I was into Ray Bradbury.

theimpossibleastronaut · August 2013

I liked scary stories when I was a kid. Then as a tween/teen I was into classics like Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice. It was at the end of my teen years that Harry Potter came out, which I loved. That led to me reading stuff like The Mists of Avalon. I also read things like The Princess Diaries.

Drea926 · August 2013

I'm trying to think of books/authors I loved that were not mentioned on here already! Hmmm....when I was really little I loved the "Little Critter" books by Mercer Mayer - "Just for You", "Just Go to Bed", etc. I still have a bunch of mine that I read to DS at bedtime.