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Your favorite childhood book?

post #1 of 35
10/22/07 at 8:41am
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Just curious, seems to be a lot of readers on this forum, your favorite book from childhood?

Here's mine:

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/...mike_mulligan/

Our company is having a book sale and just wandering through it today, saw this book there and remember my copy of it... what a classic as a young boy who loves to play with things and build stuff to get a book on steamshovels... oh the memories

Jay
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post #2 of 35
10/22/07 at 8:58am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

My favorite book as a child was Where the Wild Things Are.

As a father, my favorite book to read to my young children was Goodnight Moon.
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post #3 of 35
10/22/07 at 10:18am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Dr. Suess' "McElligot's Pool" (for obvious reasons)

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post #4 of 35
10/22/07 at 10:21am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

In my family, I am the designated purchaser of a baby's first copy of Make Way for Ducklings.

As a slightly older kid, I loved the "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" series (and later felt something was very wrong when I saw the first thirty book re-written to not include Hitchcock).
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post #5 of 35
10/22/07 at 10:25am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

The Alligator and His Uncle Tooth: A Novel of the Sea

I loved everything about it...one of the first things I purchased when I discovered ebay. It's a sweet (but sometimes scary) story about family, and a love affair with the ocean.
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post #6 of 35
10/22/07 at 10:33am

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A Frank Baum book--"The Magical Monarch of Mo". I don't even know if it's still in print. I liked it almost as much as the Wizard of Oz, but I saw that movie and never read the book.
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post #7 of 35
10/22/07 at 11:55am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

I can't say I have a favorite from before I was 10 or 12 years old. In the last few years I have been re-reading the books that I loved as a tween/teen, which include the Dark is Rising series, the Lloyd Alexander Prydain series and Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy. I'd say the Lloyd Alexander's don't hold up to reading as an adult, but the others are just as good as I remember, albeit Stewart's books certainly qualify as reading for adults.
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post #8 of 35
10/22/07 at 12:39pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

"Childhood" can mean a lot. I am talking about early childhood - the first books I could read on my own.

Harold and the Purple Crayon I loved that book. I'm not sure we ever owned it, but I think I wore out the Library's copy. When my family went to the library I would go for this one every time.

The Magic Fish. We had the scholastic version and I used to love to read it while listening to the narrated story on the 7" 33 1/3 rpm record.

My father used to read "A Christmas Carol" to the family around the dinner table every Advent. We'd read a couple pages a day or a chapter every week - I can't remember. That was another of my favorites.
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post #9 of 35
10/22/07 at 2:13pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.

CJ
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post #10 of 35
10/22/07 at 2:36pm

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I also loved the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books and wouldn't touch any of the rewritten copies. I was a fan of Encyclopedia Brown as well, and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" was an early favorite. Two of the books I remember with the most fondness, though, are "The Secret Hideout" and "Enemies of the Secret Hideout," both by John Peterson.

Of course, I read Stephen King's "Thinner" at age 11, and that was about it for childrens' books for me.
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post #11 of 35
10/22/07 at 3:17pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

the World of Ogg----by Pierre Berton--who'd a thunk it---lol

The Little Red Car-----a red MGTC resurrected by a boy and a mechanic who had wrenches with the icon EB on them---ETTORE BUGATTI----man that's better than Dom Perignon 1958
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post #12 of 35
10/22/07 at 4:19pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major

It was traditional for all the boys in my family to read this book, set in frontier Indiana, just miles from where we lived.
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post #13 of 35
10/22/07 at 7:48pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

As a very young boy, I loved it when my mother would read me The Little Engine That Could.

Later, in grammar school I remember reading many of the Henry Huggins books.

In junior high school, I read Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy. This led to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and a continued enjoyment of sci/fi fantasy.
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post #14 of 35
10/23/07 at 12:03pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

I got my love of sci-fi when I was 8 years old and my mom bought me a copy of Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (sp?). My folks didn't pay much attention to what I read so I first tackled 1984 by Aldous Huxley at the age of 11.
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post #15 of 35
10/23/07 at 12:55pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

The Mad Scientists Club

Curious George
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post #16 of 35
10/23/07 at 4:07pm

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earliest favs i can remeber are the purple crayon, the monster at the end of this book and one i cant remember the name but it was the mouse who l ride around on a toy motorcycle by making a motorcycle sound.
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post #17 of 35
10/23/07 at 6:52pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey. I found a copy on EBAY and it was in pristine condition. I paid $4 for it (plus shipping). When I searched through book dealers I saw them selling it, in not so pristine condition for over $40.

It is one of the best children's stories.
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post #18 of 35
10/23/07 at 7:18pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

I was a huge fan of 'The Great Brain' series by John D. Fitzgerald.
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post #19 of 35
10/23/07 at 7:45pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Mine is "The Pokey Little Puppy"

I remembered reading it over and over when I was younger but was given away to charity as many of my childhood belongings were as soon as I left for college. I was pleasantly surprised when my wife bought me a new copy a few years back.
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post #20 of 35
10/23/07 at 8:43pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

As a really little kid: Dick Bruna - The Fish (the girl on the cover looked like my sister). Still have it.
Later (grade 4ish): Willard Price Adventure series, Hardy Boys
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post #21 of 35
10/24/07 at 8:07pm

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post #22 of 35
10/25/07 at 4:19am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

I don't remember any from my childhood. We did read Mike Mulligan many times to our children. This is another favorite Sheep in a Jeep:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ear...IRJgDyVrFtbNMg
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post #23 of 35
10/25/07 at 4:24am
Thread Starter 

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Rob FM, Aha, instantly recognizable as Edward Gorey...

Thanks for the fun responses, I think it is interesting to see others of which I've read and those of which I have not. Maybe I should check them out, there is nothing like reliving one's childhood

Jay
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post #24 of 35
10/25/07 at 5:20am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

The Giving Tree was another favorite. Still chokes me up.
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post #25 of 35
10/25/07 at 6:03am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Mine would be Tales From a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. I think this was the 1st book that I've read in my life, that had few or no pictures.
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post #26 of 35
10/25/07 at 10:16am

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Hahn
As a very young boy, I loved it when my mother would read me The Little Engine That Could.
"I think I can! I think I can!" That was my favorite book to have read to me when I was little, too!

My favorite non-picture book was probably Matilda by Roald Dahl, closely followed by The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julies Edwards [a.k.a. Julie Andrews]
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post #27 of 35
10/25/07 at 12:34pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

hmmm, I do not remember a book that I loved as a young child, going to have to talk to mom on that one, but ever since 5th grade I have read the Hobbit every other year going on 25 years now. I never get sick of that book.
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post #28 of 35
10/25/07 at 1:28pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

I didn't own many books as a kid and I don't remember my parents reading to me, either. I do remember owning a book that I think the name was Dr. Dan the Medicine Man. It was a Goldenbook from the mid 50s and I think it even came with some band-aids in the back. Does anyone else recall this book?

When my first kids were young the first book I read to them was Goodnight Moon. The game was to try to find the mouse on each page. They also enjoyed the Richard Scarry books, as well.
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post #29 of 35
10/25/07 at 1:52pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

If you want to know about older childhood books I'd have to say The Hobbitt ranks right at the top. Running a close second would be The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Poe. There was another fantasy book I've been trying to remember the title to for decades. It was about elves fixing shoes and brownies and pixies and trolls. I read it when I was pretty young and the title escapes me now. But it was excellent.

Then there were the classics like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer or pretty much anything by Twain and Treasure Island and Moby Dick. I pretty much read every book in the school library when I was a kid. I also like the Little House On The Prairie books and the Chronicles Of Narnia series. I liked cheesy sports books and even weird old classics like Lorna Doone and Silas Marner.

I'm reading Jesse Stuart books lately. Taps For Private Tussie is my current choice. It's a great book.
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post #30 of 35
10/25/07 at 2:25pm

Re: Your favorite childhood book?

Oh yeah, older childhood favorite would have to be "The Hobbit".
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