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What were your favorite childhood books? Do you still have them with you?

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I always loved Nancy Drew. I read almost all of them in my school library. I never owned any, though. I also like Goosebumps and Hardy Boys :P

When I was maybe 2 years old, my parents got me this fabulous collection of books called "The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls". It was a collection of 10 books, ranging from years 0 to 14 and the last book was one on child rearing (meant for adults). Each book went on from simple rhymes to fairy tales to simple tales and finally to complicated ones. The collection also has books that are related to general knowledge towards the end, which can be used for school projects. I still have this collection.

My parents read to me initially, when I couldn't and when I started reading, I devoured all of them. In fact, even the last book I read when I was pregnant and then had my baby. I still have those and have given the first few books to my daughter to read and enjoy. It is a family heirloom of sorts that I hope will be handed from one generation to the other. :)

I had a collection on sweet 16 Mary Kate Olsen twins books and also meg Cabot books I enjoyed reading.

Ishita wrote: "I always loved Nancy Drew. I read almost all of them in my school library. I never owned any, though. I also like Goosebumps and Hardy Boys :P"

I loved Nancy Drew and hardy Boys too...though Goosebumps...ugh...:P:P

Famous Five series...I was given the 14th book in my 8th birthday, and I was addicted to it:) I remember reading those 21 books again and again those 2-3 years till I stumbled upon other genres...of course, with them came all Enid Blyton books, The Three Investigators, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Roald Dahl books.

famous five, harry potter and TINKLE :)
I still have them

Ruchi- yeah :D

Abhay- I would've loved to buddy read goosebumps but unfortunately, I don't have the book :P

I enjoyed goosebumps books as well

'It' by Stephen King; read it when I was 11, most memorable one; made me fall in love with clowns..

I think I would've started dreading clowns if I read it that early :P

When I was in preschool I loved the Sweet Pickles series, the Dr. Suess reading program, and a few other books. I would look at them all the time, have my mother read them to me and since they were mail order books, one would come each month and it was a wonderful discovery. I had the entire series and loved them. When in elementary school I loved The BFG by Roald Dahl and the pick your own adventure books. When in 5th and 6th grade I was info the Fear Street series by R.L. Stine (pre-goosebumps), Christopher Pike books, V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic Series.

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Abhay- lol, yeah ! I issued them from my school library :P

My surname is choudhary so i used to get called that name a lot, Chacha Choudhary :P

hardy boys, goosebumps, Asterisk and Obelisk, I grew up with them...I still go back to them......

I wish i had read books in my childhood :-(

Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer... :)

My friends used to borrow Hardy Boys from the school library... I duuno why.., but I never took them...

And I remember going with the books which were suggested to me by my elder sister (we were in the same school) :D

I read The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis every summer since I was 8, up until about 21. Now I read them about every 4 or 5 years. I also read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. I still read this one every couple of years. I don't have the original copies, but I have replaced them at least three times.

My favorite books were the Laura Ingalls Wilder collections. I loved them dearly and would love to have the collection again to read.

I read this out loud to my fifth graders every year. I didn't read it until I started teaching but I adore it and most of my students love it so much they request me to read it more than once.

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

I also remember the faraway tree series :)

My favourites are The Chronicles Of Narnia, Enid Blyton's Children Of Willow Farm series and ofcourse Nancy Drew.

The Little House on the Prairie books (Laura Ingalls Wilder). My grandmother had the collection and I would read them every time I stayed there - I still have them. Goodnight Mr Tom was also a favourite - the first book I read that really was a page-turner for me.

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Its so sad that I still don't have these books. Some are lost and were borrowed and i can't recall about the rest.

M.L. wrote: "The Little House on the Prairie books (Laura Ingalls Wilder). My grandmother had the collection and I would read them every time I stayed there - I still have them. Goodnight Mr Tom was also a favo..."

I recently read Little house on the big woods and loved it.

Emiliee wrote: "I also remember the faraway tree series :)"

Just love the series!!!!! Enid blyton rocks.

Niranjan wrote: "Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer... :)

My friends used to borrow Hardy Boys from the school library... I duuno why.., but I never took them...

And I remember going with the books which were sugge..."

I used to love adevntures of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn too but I was just a kid then so I had read the unabridged versions.Still loved them.

I loved all of the Goosebumps books and the Wayside School series by Louis Sacher. Unfortunately, I no longer have any Goosebumps books. I had a couple Wayside books until a couple years ago when I passed them down to my younger brother.

My favourite book as a child was Matilda - my Dad had to replace it 7 times in 2 years as I re-read it that much they kept falling to pieces in my hands. I could get through that book in a few hours at the age of 7 - it came out the year I was born :)
As a teenager, my favourite book became Under the Hawthorn Tree (Though Matilda is still up there as a favourite!) but I wasnt too impressed with the sequels to this one.
My YA favourite book is Lirael - Part of Garth Nix's Sabriel Quartet (Book 4 is out in October - can't wait!!!!)

I own a copy of Lirael, but not of the other two :(

The famous five series, Nancy Drew books, Feluda series (Satyajit Ray), lots of Bengali comics and horror stories (:D) and Dracula.

I still have all those books with me and read them from time to time. :)

So many to name. But one I feel which has received least popularity despite being well written is
Jess And The River Kids
I have read and reread this atleast 6-8 times. And planning to read in the future too.

Other than that - the usual Enid Blyton, ACK, William series by Richmal Crompton.
CBT Childrens novel series
Barbie's wonderful holiday - a very good Indian book written by someone called Bilkiz Aladin (am not sure of the author) was another childhood favorite.

I remember reading the encyclopedia of children stories, a collection of stories from all around the world from folk tales to fairy tales. I think it was a 10 -volume set and I know that I didn't finish reading all the stories, because there's so many of them! :) I also read a lot of Bible Stories for Kids; Disney story books and the Goosebumps series ;)
Some of these books are borrowed from the school library, some lost, and some, fortunately, are still in our possession and it's my nieces and nephews who are now enjoying it! :)

The fudge series and the boxcar children!

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.. Read each short story a gazillion times! :) It's currently in a dilapidated condition though :(

There are so many.

B is for Betsy series
Ramona Books.
Judy Blume
Anastasia Krupnik
All of a Kind Family
Roald Dahl books

LittleMissBookworm(lauren) wrote: "The fudge series and the boxcar children!"

I remember my 2nd grade teacher reading us the Boxcar Children! Loved that book!

I know I read them one after another rapidly

Tove Jansson's 'The Moomins Series'. I loved these books when I was a kid (and I still love them today). Now I'm reading these with my boys.

I'm still in my childhood, so I would say Percy Jackson. That's right now. But when I was maybe 6,7, or 8, I loved the Beverly Cleary books.

Yes the Ramona's were a fav of mine

The Faraway Tree series was my first novel...and I still cherish those memories. I was 10 years then & finished reading it pretty fast...:)Famous Five series comes after that and I have read many of the books from the school library...:)Nostalgia:)!!!

Nancy Drew! I remember I usually finished one of those books in an hour:) And I still have them with you.

IF 13 is referred childhood then i am still in my childhood!@#$#%$^2@2@@@

To Kill a Mockingbird and Lorna Doone. To Kill a Mockingbird is still my all time favorite book.

The BFG by roald dahl
The Babysitter's Club
Goosebumps
Fear Street
My mom got rid of all of my childhood books so I've been going to used bookstores and yard sales to rebuild my babysitters club and goosebumps collections

My favourite books, because I am still a child are The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird (and the list continues), but my favourote book(s) as a little kid were The Magic Tree house.

"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls, "The Witches" by Roald Dahl, and the Mother West Wind series by Thornton W. Burgess.

I have "Where the Red Fern Grows," and have reread it many times, and I have a few of the Mother West Wind books too. I can't wait to read them to MY children, because I just loved them so much!

'The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes ' is the only children's book that i read in my childhood . I so envy you all for all those Roald Dahl ,Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew books :/

I loved so many! To name a few; Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo, Eva Ibbotson, Jacqueline Wilson (she was my favourite author!) Joyce Lankester Brisley's Milly Molly Mandy series.
In my pre-teens/early teens I even loved Louise Renninson's Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging series too haha!