Favourite books from your childhood

[Shade Everdark]

A Wrinkle In Time et al (Madeleine L'Engle)

So much This, along with the sequels A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

[Oh_My_Goth]

& Green Eggs & Ham..

[Tacohitts]

[pomba gira]

Ohhh how could I forget that one? I need to dig it out & re-read it... got it for my classroom last year but never got around to revisiting it.

And I didn't realize that Madeleine L'Engle wrote four more books about Meg & Calvin's family after Many Waters... will have to find those too!

[scyko_kitty]

Uhh Green eggs and ham. Where the wild things are

[MinaRose]

Peter Pan, Cinderella, Amelia Bedelia, Little House on the Prairie, Boxcar Children, Great Expectations, some of the Judy Blume books......

[Msterbeau]

These:

These:

And of course these:

[Simon Bar Sinister]

what are the years of "childhood" for all of you? I cut off my list at 13 myself. I should make a list of my teen years' reading...

[Der Nister]

I read my copy of this issue until it fell apart. Remember now, that was back in the days before cable tv, vcr's and movie rentals so once it was done playing - that was it.

Edited November 11, 2009 by Der Nister

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I didn't actually start reading Asterix, Where the Wild Things Are, Where the Sidewalk Ends and other such stuff until i was a teenager.

But from my younger childhood:

Encyclopedia Brown (many books)

Wendy and the Bullies

Little House books. (Litte House in the Big Woods (the first one) being my favorite as I remember)

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

The Whole Mirth Catalog

Our Universe

Crapload of various Disney books.

On and the random porn I could get my hands on.

[pomba gira]

what are the years of "childhood" for all of you? I cut off my list at 13 myself. I should make a list of my teen years' reading...

My cutoff was 8th grade or so. High school, hmm...

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison, ed. (anthology)

Again, Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison, ed.(anthology)

Terry Carr's Year's Best Science Fiction anthos... #3 was the first sci fi I ever read.

Various Ray Bradbury stuff

Titan

Wizard

Demon, John Varley

The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou, Kristin Hunter

Most of Donald Goines's horrifically trashy and demeaning ghetto epics

Bodice-ripper romance novels. I think my favorites were Savage Surrender, Moonstruck Magic, Dark Fires, and Wicked Loving Lies.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

Magazines: Creem and High Times

[wormsinwombs]

OMG, I saw that the other day and HAD to get it for Keegan.

Others:

The Wind in the Willows - Mr Toad and his "Motorcar"!

Charlottes Web.

Where the Wild Things.

Oh! The Places You Will Go!

Mrs. Frisby and Rats of NIMH - hated the fucking movie HATED IT!!! I mean, the book was all about the smart Rats that where engineers and solved problems. The movie it was all the "magic amulet" WTF!!!!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( I always loved it more then Huck Finn).

Bunnicula!!!!

The Hobbit.

hehe my friend was bunnicula for halloween!

a few of my favorite books as a kid were Hershel and the Hanukkah goblin, east of the sun west of the moon, and classic fairy tale stories. I still love all the picture books I have and sometimes wonder if illustration is what I should go into lol

[creatureofthenyte]

James and the Giant Peach kicked ass.

[Joey Deadcat]

Where The Wild Things Are

Meet The Werewolf

Meet The Vampire

Great Monsters of the Movies

[Isis]

Roald Dahl:

The BFG

Matilda

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Witches

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Eric Carle:

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

The Very Hungry Catepillar

The Very Grouchy Ladybug

The Very Busy Spider

The Very Quiet Criket

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Did You Hear

Zilpha Keatly Snyder:

The Egypt Game

The Bernstien Bears

The Stinky Cheese MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Anasazi SPider

All i did was read when i was younger.

Not much changed.

[jynxxxedangel]

The Book of Conquests, by Jim Fitzpatrick.

I remember begging for, and getting, this book from the sale rack at Kmart (I think I was about 8 years old). The artwork spoke to me from afar, and totally blew me away. It was one of my prized possessions for many years, until it was lost in a move.

Edited November 24, 2009 by jynxxxedangel

[Burrich1]

If it weren’t for this exact book with all its beautiful illustrations by Edward Gory in the 2nd grade, I probably wouldn’t be on this site today.  Well, realistically,  I would still be here but this is my earliest memory of loving something “goth”
 

Following this was pretty much everything John Bellairs and then Zilphia Keatley Snyder ever wrote. And some Lloyd Alexander.   Honestly, I’ve probably forgotten 10 times what I can remember reading in my childhood as it was quite a bit.    Bellairs and Snyder, however, were defiantly read over and over for many years. 

[Anna Phylaxis]

I’m not even joking when I tell you this:
 

I was poor, growing up. I wanted to be know everything. I wanted to know shit about other shit that I didn’t know anything about. One year, my parents bought the World Book Encylopedias. I went through each and every book from front to back, several times. I miss that encyclopedia set. It was literally my most favorite thing. It inspired me to write a book report in the second grade on tornadoes. I’ve been fascinated with tornadoes for the longest time. All natural disasters, really. But World Book was just the shit, for me. 

Edited May 3 by Anna Phylaxis