Favorite Childhood Books?

[Nordengrund]

When you were a child, did you have any children's books that you really liked? I am referring to those easy- to- read books that are only a few pages long, such as those Dr. Seuss books.

When I was younger, I really liked Caps For Sale; the King, the Mice, and the Cheese, and Curious George.

[Big Jim P]

Meh. As a child I was reading Asimov.

[Zeppy]

Define childhood.

[Nordengrund]

Define childhood.

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

[Miss Defied]

Little House on the Prairie
Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew

[Zeppy]

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

[Nordengrund]

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

I meant on your recreation time when you were not at school. Like those Dr. Seuss books, for example.

[Big Jim P]

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

Indeed. My wife thinks I am nuts for reading her college textbooks for fun.

[Big Jim P]

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

I meant on your recreation time when you were not at school. Like those Dr. Seuss books, for example.

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

Indeed. My wife thinks I am nuts for reading her college textbooks for fun.

[Raeyh]

Define childhood.

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

The books you are talking about, the really simple ones with only a few words and huge pictures, are really for preschool.

[Nordengrund]

Oh.

My childhood science textbooks were my favorite book.

All so simple, so beautiful.

Indeed. My wife thinks I am nuts for reading her college textbooks for fun.

I like to read my school's history text books for fun. In fact, I have several history/science books here at home that I read for fun.

[Pope Joan]

The WInd In The Willows

The House at Pooh Corner

Half Magic by Edward Eager, highly recommended http://www.amazon.com/Half-Magic-Edward ... 0152020683

[Nordengrund]

The years when you were a young child, your elementary years.

The books you are talking about, the really simple ones with only a few words and huge pictures, are really for preschool.

Really? I knew they were little kids book, but I thought they were for first or second graders.

[Big Jim P]

The books you are talking about, the really simple ones with only a few words and huge pictures, are really for preschool.

Really? I knew they were little kids book, but I thought they were for first or second graders.

This begs the question: When did you learn to read?

[Nordengrund]

Really? I knew they were little kids book, but I thought they were for first or second graders.

This begs the question: When did you learn to read?

Pretty early. I taught myself for the most part.

[Zeppy]

I meant on your recreation time when you were not at school. Like those Dr. Seuss books, for example.

Oh, no. I used to "steal" the textbooks and read them at home for fun.

Still have them on my shelves with my college textbooks.

[Silent Majority]

Fifty Shades of Grey and Peyton Place.

[Nordengrund]

I meant on your recreation time when you were not at school. Like those Dr. Seuss books, for example.

Oh, no. I used to "steal" the textbooks and read them at home for fun.

Still have them on my shelves with my college textbooks.

I have loads of history textbooks here at home and I have not even finished half of them. I have a book on American history and it is HUGE. I also have a book on medieval history and I am 1/3 of the way finished.

[Big Jim P]

This begs the question: When did you learn to read?

Pretty early. I taught myself for the most part.

I learned before I stared school officially (my mom would have to give me a more precise age).

[Miss Defied]

The books you are talking about, the really simple ones with only a few words and huge pictures, are really for preschool.

Really? I knew they were little kids book, but I thought they were for first or second graders.

Dr. Seuss? Some are for preschoolers, some for school age, some even for adults IIRC.

[Gidgetisms]

Hans Christian Andersons' Fairy Tales.
The Little Mermaid was so much better his way

[Raeyh]

Really? I knew they were little kids book, but I thought they were for first or second graders.

Dr. Seuss? Some are for preschoolers, some for school age, some even for adults IIRC.

They are considered to be for the 3-5 demographic, though.

On that note, my favorite book of that type was about a pizza parlor.

[Threlizdun]

His Dark Materials

[Nordengrund]

Tuck Everlasting was pretty good.

[Nadkor]

From very young through to about 10/11, what I remember off the top of my head:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Jill Murphy - Peace At Last
Anne Fine - Bill's New Frock
Anne Fine - Flour Babies
Marita Conlon-McKenna - Under the Hawthorn Tree (and its two sequels)
Lynne Reid Banks - I, Houdini
EB White - Charlotte's Web
Mary Norton - The Borrowsers
Ted Hughes - The Iron Man
Gene Kemp - The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Joan Lingard - The Twelfth Day of July (and it's sequels - not actually about the 12th July)
Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (and the rest of the His Dark Materials trilogy - still up there with my favourites)

I've just realised that a lot of my favourite childhood books were written by women. Cool.

Oh, also the Goosebumps books, and a fair bit of Roald Dahl. And Beatrix Potter. Loved Beatrix Potter when I was young.