Just finished reading George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl to my class of 6 and 7 year olds and had them eating out of the palm of my hand - George's Grandma is such a fantastically disgusting character! Anyone got a better book they remember from being a kid?

"the book of three" by lloyd alexander
"a wrinkle in time" by madeline l'engle
"the cricket in times square" (don't remember who wrote it, though i just recently bought myself a new copy)

Corduroy

I was also a fan of Shel Silverstein's books.

oh, and of course the narnia books. i've read "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" more times than i care to remember. i read the whole series straight through for the first time a couple of winters ago. good stuff.

My dad used to read me stories about some chap called Professor Branestawm - haven't a clue who wrote them, but I remember he was some mad scientist dude who had about 10 pairs of glasses on top of his head!

Anxiety said:

Yes! I read through all of them in the 5th grade. They were awesome! Very imaginative.

Anxiety said:

Yep.

I'm praying that the current Disney/Walden movies do them all! But probably like 99% of Narnia fans, I won't be too disappointed if they don't do The Horse And His Boy.

JuliePurplehead said:

My absolute favorite as a young kid was Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. I also really liked The Giver by Lois Lowry and My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier. I didn't read those two as a child. They were actually assigned reading for a Children's Literature course that I took a couple of years ago. I thought they were fantastic.

Haystack said:

yeah, that might drag a little.

i'm super excited for 'the magician's nephew', whenever that happens.

Anxiety said:

Hell yeah!

And I'll be bawling my eyes out with pure emotion at the end of 'The Last Battle' if that happens.

And to get back on subject, I was obsessed with Alan Garner's 'Elidor' when I was younger, too.

Anxiety said:

Magician's Nephew was my favorite out of the set. I didn't know it was being made into a movie. I'm totally stoked.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favorite Narnia book.

I loved loved loved Lee Harding's "Displaced Person" and there was a book I loved to much when I was 13 I made it into a screenplay - Margaret Mahy's "The Tricksters" Both books made a huge impact on me as a tween.

When I was younger I adored "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Secret Garden" and "Carrie's War".

Lots. I was a book worm.

the velveteen rabbit

the secret garden

little women

Jacob have I loved

Anne of Green Gables

Pippi Longstocking

almost all of Ramona Quimby books...

I also liked a lot Greek Mythology: Pandora's box, The Odyssey, The Trojan war...

and then there was "Archie comics" and "Mad" magazine. I would sneak and read my dad's "Heavy Metal" magazines. I really dug the art work

even back then I was really into autobiographies. my mother bought me a kids book collection that had short stories on people like Ralph Bunch, Confucius, Margaret Mead, and Eleanor Roosevelt. It was some cheesy series of books she ordered throug h the mail but I loved all of them

I also read all the slavegirls of Gor books

The Berenstein Bears series.So cute.

roodboi said:

awwww thats sho cute!

heybaby said:

I read it to my daughter tonite...

the very same copy I had when I was lil'...double-

roodboi said:

I used to love those books.

heybaby said:

I learned of this great book as an adult! I love all of Anne's (Ann with an E) stories!

goodnight moon
the teeny tiny woman
the arthur the aavark series
mr popper's penguin

a different type of books.
i remember at the age of nine, i use to read a- lot. i would skip recess to read.
at one point, i was really fascinated by books on other countries.