What was your?

Question

favourite book when you were a child, do you still read it from time to time?

Answer 1

I read every Hardy Boy book that came out...but I didn't discover 'reading' until I read "ThunderCloud," ( I think that was the name of it) the sequel to My Friend Flicka. Once I read that book, Mom figured I was ready to read...and she was a voracious reader...she would pick a book she knew I would like. SHe never missed.

Answer 2

Can't remember the name of the book (it was a very long time ago) but it was about two dogs and a cat and they were trying to get to their home which was right across America, and the adventures they had on the way. I think it was by Jack London, and I think they made a film of it. I remember being under the covers in bed, with a torch reading it as I wanted to know what happened next, and could not sleep until I knew.

Answer 3

several favorites 1) The Little Mailman from Bayberry Lane 2) The Little Match Girl 3) all the Trixie Beldon mysteries. I have never been able to find the wonderful Golden book of the Little Mailman,I have read The Match Girl and cry even now, and still love all mysteries,but have never seen Trixie stories. All I find are The Hardy Boys and The Bobsy Twins.

Answer 4

I was an early reader and the library was my home away from home. At least once a week I'd trudge home with a stack.

I still love going to the children's section and reading this wonderful material. I think it helps keep me young.

As for a favorite, there's not one. I loved the Nancy Drew Mysteries and The Hardy Boys. Haven't read them in years, graduated to John Standford and Stuart Woods.

There is nothing to compare with sitting down with a good book.

Answer 5

i used to check out little men every six months - right after i returned little women
haven't read it in years - i should see if the library has a copy

i used to have so many books that i formed a "friends" library
they would come and pick out books and all books actually had a card in them so they could check them out just like at the library. i knew who had what book and when they were due back in
learned my lesson about loaning out books as an adult - someone borrowed my copy of Watseka (about the watseka wonder - she was supposedly possessed) and then moved.
don't know where she ever went and that book is worth a bunch of money. i'll never lend out a book again

Answer 6

David Copperfield was my favourite book when I was a child, and I have read it again in adulthood but it never seemed the same seen through the eyes of an adult.

Answer 7

I don't recall having a fave book as a child. I just loved them all. Every Saturday morning mum would get all us kids together (5) and we would wander down to the library. It was a childhood ritual I adored.
The books from my early childhood that I really liked were the Babar books. There was something about elephants that were just like people that fascinated me.
I also liked the lion the witch and the wardrobe.

Answer 8

There are several that I remember fondly. Most of Enid Blyton, natch plus the William books. I also loved 'Heidi', and 'The Children of the New Forest' and I cried my eyes out over ''Black Beauty'. The funniest book I read was 'The Fifth Form at St Dominic's by Talbot Baines Read. It was really hilarious but I bet its horribly dated now.

Answer 9

It was a book called Wild Animals I Have Known. I used to have a copy of this book and some how in all my moves it got lost. I am always on the look out for it at used bookshops, the Salv. Army store, Goodwill, etc. I know I'll come across it one of these days. Half the fun is looking for it!

Answer 10

I discovered Charlotte's Web at a very young age.

I am sure it was the "fault" of my older brothers that I learned to read before getting to school. I can't remember ever NOT reading. In fact, one of my earliest memories was having my oldest brother (who was 13 years older than me) helping me sound out the words on the back of cereal boxes. I can only surmise that I was almost 4 years old at the time, because Dennie was still a teenager.

It made it hard on me in kindergarten being forced to plod along with D!ck and Jane while the rest of the kids struggled. But my original kindergarten teacher wasn't going to "treat me special". When our new, younger teacher came to us after the Christmas break, it wasn't long before she realized that I was way beyond the other children in reading skill. She tried me out on all the other books available to the kindergarteners, and found that I had advanced beyond everything in the class. So one play period she left the rest of the class in the charge of one of the mother-helpers and took me to the school "library" to pick out a book that I would enjoy reading.

We tried many books in the primary section, but none of them seemed to be right, until she lifted down the copy of Charlotte's Web from the higher shelves. That book was magic from the first moment I opened the front cover!

So, while the other kids got to struggle along with their D!ck and Jane books, I got to sit quietly in a corner and read my Charlotte's Web. I think that was where my lifelong love affair with books started.

It has been fun revisiting Charlotte's Web from time to time through the years. The best was introducing it to my grandsons when they were young. Those little faces with big eyes wide, listening to the story that has pleasured me for decades! It was wonderful.