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Favorite Books from your childhood.

The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl. My mother checked this out for me and my sister when we were tiny army brats in occupied West Germany. A nice tale, with figures inspired by medieval manuscript tradition. The Duchess bakes a cake that goes out of control, mounting sky-high, forcing the castle's residents to eat everything to calm the situation. So what started out as a thin cast of characters ends up with the same as rendered pleasantly plump at the end.

https://www.amazon.com/Duchess-Bake...t=&hvlocphy=1018145&hvtargid=pla-491937600706
 
The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl. My mother checked this out for me and my sister when we were tiny army brats in occupied West Germany. A nice tale, with figures inspired by medieval manuscript tradition. The Duchess bakes a cake that goes out of control, mounting sky-high, forcing the castle's residents to eat everything to calm the situation. So what started out as a thin cast of characters ends up with the same as rendered pleasantly plump at the end.

https://www.amazon.com/Duchess-Bake...t=&hvlocphy=1018145&hvtargid=pla-491937600706
Totally iconic book from when I was in single digits !!!
 
I can't believe I actually found the cover to this book.
It was The Raggedy Man, a poem by James Whitcomb Riley.
My grandmother had this very book and used to read it to us as young children. It was wonderful.

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In about the 3rd grade, I read all selections from the Boxcar Children series the library had.

The World Book encyclopedia was my go to for nearly everything before the internet. Mine were from the mid-60s. It hasn't been that long ago that I tossed the set out.

My second-grade teacher used to read us passages from "The Boxcar Children" in class. I really enjoyed that. As I recall, they would haul stuff out of the city dump, dishware and so forth, and put it to use. It's come to mind during my adult years too when I have been in straightened circumstances...
 
I can't believe I actually found the cover to this book.
It was The Raggedy Man, a poem by James Whitcomb Riley.
My grandmother had this very book and used to read it to us as young children. It was wonderful.

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My mom used to read me Little Orphant Annie when I was a wee little one. I think that's why I grew up liking scary movies.
 
There are some fabulous books listed here! Many of them i have read myself (though by no means all!) I just thought I would add a few books I loved myself and don't recall seeing posted here.

Remarkable Ramsey, The Talking Dog. - Barbara Rinkoff
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton
The Wolf King - Joseph Wharton Lippincott
Rascal - Sterling North
The Incredible Journey -Sheila Burnford
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM - Robert C. O'Brien
Light In the Forest - Conrad Richter
Old Yeller / Savage Sam - Fred Gibson

And for the comics lovers who may have missed it, the tremendous The Trigan Empire, by Don Lawrence

I remember a book about a little boy who survived the Johnstown Flood; our teacher read it to us the same year she read Island of the Blue Dolphins. I simply cannot recall a title; anybody out there have any idea what it may have been?
 
Baseball card adventures by Dan Gutman. I will be buying the entire collection for each of my nephews when they are 7 or 8.
 
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One of my all time favorite books from when i was in fourth grade was “Call of the Wild) i must have read it 3 times during class when i was supposed to be doin schoolwork. No wonder i failed most of my classes! Nowdays im a huge stephen king fan! If only i found out about him when i was young i would have failed every class 😜
 

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One of my all time favorite books from when i was in fourth grade was “Call of the Wild) i must have read it 3 times during class when i was supposed to be doin schoolwork. No wonder i failed most of my classes! Nowdays im a huge stephen king fan! If only i found out about him when i was young i would have failed every class 😜
Love Kings early work.
Two books of his that sorely disappointed me were Duma Key and the last book in the Dark Tower series.
The rest have been a thrill ride.
 
I havnt read those but ill put them on my list of books to never read 😂 i could never get into the dark tower, even the movies i wAs like what is this!! But i know my magics strong 😜 thank everyone for the book suggestions, ill make sure to find them on audible! Cause im lZy as shiz and i dislike reading nowDays!
 
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