Who was your favorite author as a child?

Question

and what books did they write, why did you like their books?

wow what a huge response.....keep the answers coming guys....cheers

Answer 1

I am fourteen right now, I love reading the typical teen stuff - Meg Cabot, ann Brashares...

When I was a kid I loved reading aesop's fables, anything at all that was fun to read... i was also a huge fan of the Sabrina the teenage Witch series in paperback. They were really of great advantage to me coz now, my vocabulary is wider and i think I'm good at anything English!

I am not aware of the authors btw!

Answer 2

I have four favorite childhood authors. The listing of them is of no consequence.
Madeleine L'Engle, she wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Lois Lowery is another childhood favorite, she wrote The Giver, Gathering Blue, and The Messenger.
Margeret Peterson Haddix, she wrote the Shadow Children series and other great books.
Avi, he wrote The Christmas Rat, Nothing But the Truth, Windcatcher, S.O.R. Losers.... all the books were great!

Answer 3

Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Before I could read, I made my parents read these books to me every night. I loved how she recreated the world of the pioneers and I would make my parents take me to visit the places she lived all around the Midwest, and I also would always try out the recipes they talked about in the book. I also remember liking the American Girl books -- I guess I was really into historical fiction as a child!

Answer 4

L.M.Montgomery - who wrote the Anne of Green Gables series.

She has a way of drawing the reader into the life of the story. Of painting a glorious picture of the times and nature. Of involving the reader in a very deep way. I don't know how she does it.

Incidentally I had the privilege of visiting the Anne of Green Gables house in Prince Edward Island. They have recreated the house in great detail and upstairs, in a little bedroom, lying across the bed is the puffy sleeved dress that Anne so loved, that her stepfather bought her. And behind the house is a path through the woods. Every so often there is a bench to sit and contemplate the scene. And posted there is an excerpt from L.M. Montgomery's writings that describes a similar scene. It is a magical experience to see all of this. Actually, there were busloads of tourists from Japan touring all of this, some of them were crying. I myself felt like crying much of the time. I can't tell you why. It was the re-creation of my childhood, I guess.

Answer 5

Judy Blume is a great one, Zilpha Keatley Snyder (the egypt game, just a great great book!) Christopher Pike, RL Stine, Carolyn Keen (nancy drew) I also enjoyed "The Girls of Canby Hall" it was a bit like Sweet Valley High (which I enjoyed as well) but I have no idea as to who wrote the series (girls of canby hall) I only ever found two of the books and have long since lost them. As a very young child I loved the Ramona series and also all of the Oz books

Answer 6

Madeline L Engle. I read the Time Trilogy (more to it now, but it was A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) several times. After that I'd say CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia.

Answer 7

Michael Crichton, I read Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain, The Lost World, and Sphere, and really liked them. The first book of his I read was Jurassic Park, which I read when I was 10. I liked him because he told good stories that were easily read and had good action, but not a lot of depth, which I found boring then. Quick, fun reads.

Secondly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I was too young for Sherlock Holmes, which deal with things like murder, but I read the Professor Challenger Series, namely the Lost Wrold. I really enjoyed how he told his stories and to this day he's still one of my favorites.

Answer 8

I always enjoyed The Hardy Boys mystery series by Franklin W. Dixon (a pen name as the books were ghost written by several authors.) The books were always full of action with characters that were fun to follow. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Answer 9

Young child - Enid Blyton: Famous Five, Secret Seven. I enjoyed them because it was all about kids having fun and adventure.
Later in childhood - Judy Blume: Forever, Hello God, Its Me Margaret etc, (cant remember them all, there was heaps). I enjoyed them because they were about how to deal with life and its hurdles.
Very early teen - Cant remember the author, but whoever wrote all the Sweet Valley High novels. I thought they were fantastic at the time. Like the perfect fantasy teen life.

Answer 10

Famous Five book series,R-mysterty series beginning with Rockingdown mystery,Malory Tower series,Secret Island by Enid Blyton.Its about kids have adventures and solve mysteries.The characters and the plot were all fascinating.And the food in the books!Don't get me started on it.