What was the most enjoyable book you read when you were a kid?

Answer 1

Oh, I loved the Ramona books! By Beverly Cleary. My 3rd grade teacher would read them aloud substituting each student's name in place of the characters! We were each so excited to hear our name! We would really listen to the adventures.

http://www.beverlycleary.com/characters/ramona.html

Answer 2

I am a still a kid, but I love books.

If I was a 20-year-old individual, here are the books that I would've read as a child (which I read as a child as a teenager today):

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
It sounds harsh, but it's amazing, not hard but very heavy literary significance. You always want to see how each of the five sisters kill themselves in the end. I loved to read it, because it is from the 90's but is centered in the 70's. It's so fast and descriptive, I just love it.

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Both touching classics I read as a 12-year-old. Both just superb.

Answer 3

Stuart Little
Field Guide To Birds - Roger Tory Peterson (wierd, I know.)Because it was 5th birthday present from my grandparents , & I Ioved those Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers , that visited our yard.


ps about some of the other answers :

I think "White Fang" is by Jack London . I had that & "Call of the Wild"

The Virgin Suicides is a good movie also. ( Christopher Walken, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, others I don't remember ) based on a true story . Make sure you take you anti-depressants before watching .

Answer 4

I loved Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, the Hardy Boys, Huck Finn, and the Sherlock Holmes books.

Answer 5

The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was great. All those parodies of real fairy tales ;). But what comes in really, really close second is Graham Base's Animalia. It has lovely pictures that were so interesting to look at - so much detail that every time I went back to it, I picked up a new image that I had not seen on the previous attempts.

Answer 6

As a little kid, my faves were Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen) and Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal, Make Way for Ducklings). As a pre-teen, it was all about Judy Bloom. I felt like I had found the keys to the kingdom - she answered so many questions I was afraid to ask.

Answer 7

The Bobbsey Twins
Trixie Belden
Betsy, Tacey and Tib
The Boxcar Children (original ones)
Little Women
Little House series
A collection of all of the Winnie-the-Pooh books in one volume, it had When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six.

Answer 8

I was addicted to the Oz books, by L. Frank Baum. Later on, I loved mysteries - especially Nancy Drews. When my daughter was a child, she preferred more realistic stories - for example, the Little House on the Prarie series, and the Anne of Green Gables series.
Enjoy!

Answer 9

The Little Prince. Not only is it a suitable book for smaller children, but it's also an exploration on existence and life's meaning. Plenty of high school students read The Little Prince, and when I took Advanced Studies, our teacher had us evaluate it as part of our final.

Answer 10

For young children, "The Bed Book" by Sylvia Plath
For preteens (mostly girls)- "Behind the Attic Wall" by Sylia Cassedy
For preteens that like to get scared- "Wait Till Helen Comes" by Mary Downing Hahn

Enjoy.

Answer 11

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) by Alexandre Dumas.