OCT2024 Hour 14 - Childhood Reads > Likes and Comments

Welcome to Hour 14

What were your reading habits like as a child? Who fostered your love of books? What was your favorite books as a child?

As a child I loved to read. My mom was a reader and always had a book to read.
When I was very young I got the Trixie Belden series sent to my house on a monthly basis. How I wish I still had that collection of books.
As a teenager, I got into the Flowers in the Attic series and also Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon.
Boy, I loved Lucky Santangelo at the time!

I would read during class in Silent Reading, and every night before bed sometimes falling asleep on my books! My family was a big supporter of my reading habits and my mom would even join me for my "bedtime stories" and read a book to me sometimes. I grew into a more avid reader as a young adult however. I wanted to read the entire Magic Tree House Books and Nancy Drew books when I was younger but never did so now as an adult I am making a goal to "cure my inner childs reading desires"

My mother took me and brothers to library every other week. Living in one income meant we had only a few books that we actually owned. Even to this day I own few books.

At home we had Dr Seuss books, Mother Goose, a Child's Collection of Verses. The had World Book Encyclopedia and some Time-Life books. My mother was the fiction reader, and my father the nonfiction. Now I read both.

And my mother had a collection of cookbooks. As her first born and daughter--The early and mid 1960s were a strictly gendered time--she took me into the kitchen with her and told me to read the recipe to her, to find answers to my cooking questions from her cookbooks. We cooked, baked, and made candy, all by the book. . . .This was largely her nonfiction reading she shared with me. (She also has one gardening book she used as her one written helper.)

I read lots. And before I could read, my mother used to take me and my siblings to the library so we could listen to books there. I loved everything from the author, Astrid Lindgren. And I also loved Anne of Green gables.

Like everyone above my mum is the one I remember reading to me and taking me to the library. I adored the library and still love libraries. I was one of those kids that sometimes my parents wondered if I read too much. And I was also a very big Anne of Green Gables fan, a love that was given to me directly from my mum as well and my first lesson in not judging a book by its cover because the edition that Santa brought for me had an extremely boring looking cover.

Taya wrote: "I would read during class in Silent Reading, and every night before bed sometimes falling asleep on my books! My family was a big supporter of my reading habits and my mom would even join me for my..."

I teach 2nd grade and the Magic Treehouse series is still very popular!

Cynda wrote: "My mother took me and brothers to library every other week. Living in one income meant we had only a few books that we actually owned. Even to this day I own few books.

At home we had Dr Seuss boo..."

When I was a kid they sold the Funk and Wagner Encyclopedias at the grocery store! It was one volume per week. I wanted those so badly, but alas we couldn't afford them.

Rebecka wrote: "I read lots. And before I could read, my mother used to take me and my siblings to the library so we could listen to books there. I loved everything from the author, Astrid Lindgren. And I also lov..."

I have never read Anne of the Green Gables. I probably should at some point. I hear a lot of people talk about it.

Christy wrote: "Like everyone above my mum is the one I remember reading to me and taking me to the library. I adored the library and still love libraries. I was one of those kids that sometimes my parents wondere..."

Good point about covers! I wondered if the boring cover was the original and they changed it because kids thought it was boring?

Oh, I loved Trixie Belden, Donna Parker, and of course Nancy Drew. Neither of my parents ever went to college, but they were great readers and the house was filled with books. I also got to buy books from the library used book sales, and I still do that to this day!

Libraries played a huge role of me becoming a reader! I remember taking piles of book in and out )) I adored stories about animals