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Favorite Books from your childhood.
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Do you have a favorite book from your childhood that you would like to reread today? I just placed an order on Amazon for book published in 1941, "Stratosphere Jim and His Flying Fortress". It was handed down to me by an older cousin in the mid 60's that I read as a young boy. I look forward to reading it again!
Hardy Boys and all of the Ronald Dahl books. I loved all of those.
Hardy Boys By F.W. Dixon- Pseudonym of Leslie McFarlane, father of Hockey Night in Canada’s Brian McFarlane. He was paid a flat rate of $100 a book.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I got it from my paternal grandparents when I was a child. I don't know how many times I've re-read this fantastic novel from1882.
Not necessarily ones I want to read again, but I look back fondly on many, including almost everything by Seuss.
And a special place in my heart for a book I had as a child (not a teen):
And a special place in my heart for a book I had as a child (not a teen):
Thanks. I haven’t read this since I was a kid. Free with Amazon Prime.
In elementary school I loved all of Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins and related characters books. I also loved the juvenile detective book series Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators by Robert Arthur. I actually recently re-read the Tripod series by John Christopher, young adult sci-fi. (The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire, When the Tripods came.)
I loved the J.R.R Tolkien books in late elementary and then middle school.
But my absolute favorite book from my childhood is Catcher in the Rye. It’s not appropriate for super young kids but I first read it in 6th grade and I’ve read it almost every single year since then. It’s my favorite book of all time.
But my absolute favorite book from my childhood is Catcher in the Rye. It’s not appropriate for super young kids but I first read it in 6th grade and I’ve read it almost every single year since then. It’s my favorite book of all time.
Childhood, as in when first having learned how to read grade school, favorites: The original (1930's) Professor Branestawm books, the Paddington books, a book called the Mad Scientist's Club.... those all occupy a nostalgic place in my mind.
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I remember “Where the Wild Things Are”! Loved the artwork.
I loved ‘Huckleberry Finn’. I read it 3 times.
Dick and Jane
I remember my whole class reading Where the Red Fern Grows in grade 5 or 6. I think our teacher wanted to see her kids cry. Not me though, just all the other kids.
I was a vacuum for "Orange Biographies" in elementary school. I too wanted to read the entire shelf. As a child I also devoured Hardy Boys and laughed at Eloise's hijinks at the Plaza Hotel. In high school I read and re-read Catch-22 multiple times; I still remember getting cramps from suppressing laughter in class (when we were supposed to be studying). No doubt I will read it again.
My wife wants to add Lion, witch and the wardrobe.
The entire 7 book series in The Chronicles of Narnia, start to finish was great.My wife wants to add Lion, witch and the wardrobe.
As was his Space Trilogy series. Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength
The Space Trilogy is brilliant. That Hideous Strength is as good a thriller as you’ll find.
