What was your favorite book as a child?

Question

What was your favorite book as a young child?

Answer 1

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
The Giant Jam Sandwich
The Shining (just kidding)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (and Superfudge)
I Can't Said the Ant
a book called Peppermint Fences

Answer 2

Well, as a VERY young child (about 4) it was

"The Little Engine That Could"

"The Little Engine that Could, also known as The Pony Engine, is a moralistic children's story that appeared in the United States of America. The book is used to teach children the value of optimism. Some critics would contend that the book is a metaphor for the American dream.


Illustrations for this edition by George and Doris Hauman
The gist of the tale is that a long train must be pulled over a high mountain. Various larger engines, treated anthropomorphically, are asked to pull the train; for various reasons they refuse. The request is made of a small engine; the other engines mock the engine for trying. But by chugging on with its motto I-think-I-can, the engine succeeds in pulling the train over the mountain.
The best known incarnation of the story The Little Engine That Could is attributed to "Watty Piper" a pseudonym used by publishing house Platt & Munk. With illustrations by the esteemed Lois Lenski, this retelling of the tale The Pony Engine appeared in 1930; the first edition attributes Mabel C. Bragg as the originating author. However, Mabel C. Bragg, a school teacher in Boston, Massachusetts, never claimed to have originated the story. Indeed, The Pony Engine, which first appeared in the Kindergarten Review in 1910, was written by Mary C. Jacobs (1877-1970). In 1954, Platt & Munk published a now familiar version of The Little Engine That Could (pictured at right), with slightly revised language and new, more colorful illustrations by George and Doris Hauman."

as a young (but older, about 8) child, it was " The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Answer 3

Ramona The Pest (quickly followed by the REST of the Beverly Cleary books!)

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

I still go back & read them occasionally (and I am 45 years old, LMAO!)

Answer 4

I loved the Trixie Belden books. I still have them, about 30 or so, packed away somewhere. Trixie and her friends were always solving mysteries. My best friend and I would use our Barbie dolls as all the characters from the books and create our own little mysteries to solve. lol

Answer 5

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Answer 6

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

Answer 7

Where the Wild Things Are. Still is my favorite book.

Answer 8

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Answer 9

Courdory by Don Freeman

http://www.amazon.com/Corduroy-Picture-Puffins-Don-Freeman/dp/0140501738

I also like Harold and The Purple Crayon

Answer 10

When You Give A Moose A Muffin was one.