What was your favorite childhood book and why?

Question

What do you remember most about it?

Answer 1

My favorite childhood book is The Red Balloon" by Albert LaMorrise.

This book struck a chord with me because it was about a lonely child with no friends and then becomes friends with a Red Balloon. Actually the Red Balloon is magical and acts like a live creature instead of an inanimate object. So the Red Balloon becomes the child's best friend and the ending was very moving. Some children "kill" the Red Balloon by bursting it, which is heartbreaking for the child. However, after this tragedy, comes the uplifting part. All the balloons in Paris come to the rescue and carry the child away.

I suppose I relate to this book so strongly because I also was a lonely child and bullied by other children. And I am waiting for my Red Balloon to take me away too.

Answer 2

It was a Christopher Pike novel called ''The Midnight Club''. I was somewhat fascinated as even a young child by the more morbid areas of reality, and the novel is actually a pretty interesting concept beneath the surface. It follows a group of teens/twenty-somethings living in an in-patient hospice group home. They make a pact amongst themselves that the first to die will try to contact the others; the objective being to prove or disprove the concept of life after death. What's interesting about the story is that when they do gradually begin dying one by one, the survivors come to realize that making the most of the time left is by far more important than devoting said time to worrying about what happens next..

Answer 3

Only One Woof by James Herriot
An absolutely adorable book about two border collies in England. I have always loved dogs and my Mom would read this to me before bed and during the day, and whenever else I begged her to read it. The illustrations are great and so is the sweet story. Plus, I always had a weird thing with the way books smell and this one always smelled great!

Answer 4

I don't know how far back into my childhood you want me to go. But I loved "I Went Walking" by Eric Carle. I loved looking at the pictures. The yellow duck and the horse were my personal favorites. I used to make my parents read it to me multiple times in a row.

Answer 5

The book: DANNY AND THE DINOSAUR

I had my mother read it to me hundreds of times over a few years period. For some reason when I was about 4, 5, and 6 years old I was captivated by the idea of having a dinosaur as a pet.

Answer 6

"Mr. Pudgins" by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen. It was about a magical babysitter that made bathtubs fly and soda come out of faucets.

I think I liked it because I could identify with it and it was highly imaginative. I was also left with babysitters fairly often and they were rarely creative or even interested in my activities so a babysitter like Mr. Pudgins was really something special.

Answer 7

Louisa May Alcotts "Little Women". I read it for the first time before I was ten. It's a great book about 4 little girls growing up while their father was in the war. A real classic, I read it several more times growing up. I had my daughter read it when she was old enough.

Answer 8

My favorite childhood book was "Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams, because it tells a sad tale about a stuffed rabbit who longs to become "real".

Answer 9

I found the books of Martin and Osa Johnson when I was about 10. I read everything!!! My favorite was "I Married Adventure"......

Answer 10

'Treasure Island', by Robert Louis Stevenson. I remember that it was the first adventure story that I ever read, and the old blind beggar Pew the first scary character I'd run across.