Your favorite books when you were a kid

[Momiji]

Title says it all, I guess.

I liked Dr. Seuss books a lot when I was really little.

I liked Charlotte's Web, too. My teacher made me read it to the class when I was in kindergarten. Since I was the only one in the class that knew how to read, I think my teacher made me do it just to see if I could. I remember flipping out when the word 'kill' came up in the book, because my parents had told me that 'kill' isn't a word a child should be using.

When I was in elementary school, I really liked the Ramona Quimby books, too. Then again, pretty much everyone did. There were fights and stuff over who would get to read them.

Then I got around to reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 6th grade, and I became a fan of those books all the way through high school.

All right, your turn. Go!

[Rantz]

Roald Dahl's books were great. They still are, in fact. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, Matilda... the list goes on. Pure quality.

[Wolf Kanno]

Dr. Seuss all the way. :cool:

My favorite children's story of all time is The Little Prince (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince). I wish there were more children's story like this one.

[Pheesh]

Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl and Goosebumps when I was really young. Then I went on to Harry Potter and anything Eoin Colfer. But I can still read and enjoy those last two to this day.

Also, the hobbit. I read that book so many times.

[Freya]

I always found any kind of dragonish book. I forget them all now but I was always into the fantasy thing. I was so obsessed with harry potter that when the first movie came out I made my mom stand in line with me for 2 hours xD

Any fantasy book I loved, magic was always my favorite thing to read about. You could really do anything with magic.

[~*~Celes~*~]

Wow, I don't even know where to start here. I've been reading since I was REALLY little.

There was Little Critter, Bernstein Bears, Roald Dahl, Amelia Bedelia, American Girl or something like that, Ramona Quimby, Sesame Street books...I could just go on and on :p I've always loved to read.

[Rodarian]

While I flipped through those books.. As a kid I actually read more of 'coffee table' books, national geographic or anything that dealt with 'ships, trains and automobiles'

Its no wonder that my interest with them continues no matter if I fashionable guy in the designing business

[Imperfectionist]

Aaaw I love this thread!! :D

I liked Dr Seuss even though I think I only ever read Green Eggs and Ham. Rohl Dahl was one of my favourites as well, I think The Twits was one of the first proper books I read. I really liked the film adaptations of BFG and Matilda too :p Also loved Charlotte's Web, even though the ending made me cry :(

That was all when I was really young though, when I got a bit older my mum's now ex-girlfriend really got me into reading because she came from a book-fanatic family. She used to read Harry Potter to me, and that got me really into fantasy books. I started to read stuff by Eoin Colfer, 'Lemony Snicket', and these books by some guy called William Nicholson, the first one in his series was called The Wind Singer. I really really enjoyed it but i've never come across anyone else who's ever read them.

But yes, that's where my love of books started out :)

[Mo-Nercy]

Goosebumps for me. I especially liked thouse 'Choose your own adventure' books. I always cheated, of course. I don't think anyone would have actually gone back to the beginning of the book and started all over again.

And this is why, even to this day, I have a massive collection of bookmarks.

[Bastian]

The Oz books! All forty of them! Loved them.

But before that, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

And then there was Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Trilogy (which now has a fourth book!) and Ursula k. LeGuin's EarthSea books and Encyclopedia Brown and the Choose Your Own Adventure books and the Bunnicula books and . . . I was a book worm!

[Necronopticous]

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure">Choose Your Own Adventure</a>.

[rubah]

I subscribed the boxcar children, babysitters club, little sister's, and goosebump scholastic book club things where they'd send you a few books a month. But I tended to read those within days, so xD

My grandparents gave my sister and I a huge collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales, so I cut my teeth on that, and became subsequently quaint.

I read the Little House books, the books about Rose, Caroline, and caroline's mother

I was really into christopher pike books-- Spooksville served for a while, but I moved on to his young adult stories, and actually had a dream about one of them this morning xD.

and scattered through all of this-- archie comics xD

[NorthernChaosGod]

Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, The Hobbit, The Giving Tree, Where the Wild Things Are. :cool:

[Crowseye]

After I learned to read: The Velveteen Rabbit, Charlotte's Web, A Wrinkle in Time, the Encyclopedia Brown series, the Great Brain series. A bit later, Where the Red Fern Grows.

[Mirage]

Roald Dahl is like the only author I can remember from my childhood, so I'll go with that.

[Rad Bromance]

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[Bastian]

babysitters club
. . . I never read those . . . nope . . . 'cause they're for girls. But if I HAD read them then I would have always wanted a secret passage way from my room to my barn like Mary Anne's. And maybe I would have had a crush on Logan.

[Ashi]

I used to read The Babysitters Club and Goosebumps as well :) then started reading Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine's books. The latter seemed very repetitive but still enjoyable.

[Crop]

Goosebumps for me. I especially liked thouse 'Choose your own adventure' books. I always cheated, of course. I don't think anyone would have actually gone back to the beginning of the book and started all over again.

And this is why, even to this day, I have a massive collection of bookmarks.

This whole post.

Aside from the Choice ones, The Night of the Living Dummy series were my favourite.