What are some books that you enjoyed as a kid? I loved Narnia books, and fairytales. I also loved this series that was about a planet made entirely of mushrooms. A couple of kids build themselves a spaceship and travel there. Its pure 1950's schlock sci fi and I absolutely loved it.

I was a huge huge huge fan of the Bobsey kids. I remember reading them in the dark of my room, scared out of my wits. I loved them and I probably have like twenty of them stored somewhere in my parents' basement.

Dale Brown and Tom Clancy.

 

I was obsessed with the military. My whole family had served and there was nothing I wanted more than to be in the military and learn as much about it as I could.

 

Still got the interest in learning about it. I'm over the serving in it part now though.

The Saddle Club book series. Most of my friends were reading the Babysitter's Club books, and I read a few too and liked them, but The Saddle Club books were the ones I'd pre-order from the bookstore and wait for.

 

I was so jealous of those girls for being able to take riding lessons. Since I was a farmgirl, I learned a lot about the horseworld from those books. My horse just knew how to go forward. I wanted to jump fences like they did.

Encyclopedia Brown Series... I really wanted their fort in the junkyard.

 

A Wrinkle in Time and all the books that followed.

 

Dean Koontz, my gateway into adult fiction

 

Of course Tolkien was my gateway into Fantasy

I didn't read as much as a kid. I still don't read a ton now, just what really interests me.

 

Emp reminded me of "A Wrinkle in Time" and I read some of the Narnia books. I also read this series about a group of kids that solved mysteries, but I can't think of the name. Not the usual ones you think of.

Box-Car Kids? Bobsey Twins?

No... not that old I think. Though I did read some Box-car Kids I think. :)

oh, I read all kinds if books when I was a kid!! but my favourite must have been the Hobbit. I loved it! the dragon, he treasure, the journey!! it was awsome! I Read it over and over..

My first ever favourite book was this book called "Dogger", about a boy called Davey who loses his toy Dog called Dogger and he has to find him *gasp*

 

As I got older I loved the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton until I met a certain Boy called Harry Potter when I was ten. And thus, my life was set ;)

Well, the first book i ever owned was "where's Spot?" I read it once and found Spot. but it made for a very boring re-read!

 

i loved Encyclopedia Brown and the Boxcar Children, but my favorite was The Prydain Chronicles. I also enjoyed the Girls vs Boys series. I think it was by Naylor...anyway, i loved all of the pranks they'd pull on each other!

I read the Babysitter's Club books when I was younger. I also read a lot of Stephen King's stories, I used to love being scared but now I'm a wimp when it comes to scary books and movies :P

David Eddings' Belgariad, LJ Smiths' series, Stephen King, Anne McCaffrey, Dean Koontz, Christopher Pike, Mercedes Lackey... pretty much anything I could pick up. LOL. I read lots of mythology and such as well. I'd read my way through the children and young adults' sections of the library by the time I was 9 or so. After that, I graduated to the regular "adult" fiction. I still remember that I shocked the hell out of my 5th (and 6th, now that I think about it) grade teacher when I dragged all 1100 and some pages of Stephen King's IT in to school with me. :lol:

My all-time favorite book as a kid was Charlotte's Web by E.B. White :D I read it -so- many times and never got tired of it. I still have the same beat up copy from when I was little.

Being Swedish and all, Astrid Lindgren's books where of course my favourites. Still love them, and read on a regular basis.

 

Other than that, Narnia, Enid Blyton's Famous Five-novels, W.E Jones Bigglers-novels, the Three Investigators-novels.

And collections of Swedish folklore.

 

And while not exactly books, always loved Tintin, the Smurfs and Asterix :D

Another one for the Encyclopedia Brown books. I also loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

 

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I liked those too....never followed them right though...Always skipped around to find the best adventure. :D

oh, I forgot about those!! I wonder if my library still has them?...

 

i also liked the Clue books...except Mrs. Peacock was so annoying!

Ohh yeah, Choose Your Own Adeventure were win... and I did what Staffy did too... haha.

Ah, Which Way? books, I loved those. LOL

 

My other favorites:

 

Like Emp, I loved A Wrinkle in Time and the rest of those books.

 

I loved The Chocolate War, too. I picked it up because of the name, but I really enjoyed the book!

 

Other than that, I didn't read too much as a kid. Once I hit High School and my best friend put a historical fiction novel in my hand, however, that all changed. I haven't been without a book in my purse (or really close by) since then. My first HF novel, btw, was Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey. *grins* So, I guess you could say the Green was born in High School...[/i]

Hmmmmm...Books that I read as a kid were...

Goosebumps by R.L. Stine. I love horror books.

Another would be Disney children books. My mom bought a lot of them but now, we donated them to the library T_T.

So many good books mentioned but I loved Charlotte's web and the babysitters club and Sweet Valley High. I was such a girl.

Let's see here...

 

Babysitters' Club

Nancy Drew

Judy Blume books

Beverly Cleary's Ramona books

Narnia series

LOTR series

Bobsey Twins

As a young child, I loved the Hungry Caterpillar! The number of times I read that book are phenonimal!

 

As I got older, I loved Brian Jacques' Redwall Series. I occasionally read them now as well!

 

I was also a big fan of Philip Pullman. I can't remember the name of the series, but it contained the books The Tiger in the Well, The Ruby in the Smoke and one other book I can't remember.

 

I also enjoyed the humour in Terry Dreary's Horrible Histories books, which covered all famous periods of History, mainly in the UK, but also other places.

 

It was only once I turned 16 or so that I seriously got into reading. And for that, I must blame David Eddings, and his Elenium Trilogy and Tamuli Trilogy. Those were also the books that hooked me on fantasy!

How could I forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar! or The Tiger who Came to Tea. Classic literature right there :P

 

The Tiger in the Well etc were all about Sally Lockhart ;) In fact a dramatised version of "The Ruby in the Smoke" staring Billie Piper will be shown on the BBC over the winter =D

 

And Horrible Histories are legendary *nods*