Each and every Jules Verne book!
Favorite Books from your childhood.
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I just borrowed this from the library. We both read it as kids in the 60s.
I doubt if there is a better book that I have read than "East of Eden"..... He was brilliant.
We read these in the evening to our only begotten as a reward for not acting like my side of the family, lol.
I miss those days. They sure raced by.
I thank God for the teachers that I had that loved little ADHD boys..... I had more than one that I probably owe my love of books to. My Dad was a big reader, lol, Mom too when she wasn't chasing after her idiot third born child!
I seriously should have been left in our back forty for the coyotes to either raise me or eat me! That woman is a saint.
"Lady Chatterly's Lover"
I'm kidding.
Henry Huggins/Ramona Quimby
Winnie the Pooh
The Wind in the Willows
Dr. Seuss
And just too many other to count let alone remember. As a child I was a very avid reader.
Don't forget "Highlights"! Goofus and Gallant kicked butt!
I read that at age nine in my grandmother’s farm in Ireland. Still remember the gory details!
As a 12 year-old, The American Boy's Handy Book, by Daniel Carter Beard was absolutely engrossing. It is full of adventurous, do-it-yourself projects that included; tissue paper hot air balloons, ice skating sails and woodlore.
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Also most of the Great Illustrated Classics
Also most of the Great Illustrated Classics
Favorite book at 3: Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Favorite book at 5: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, my earliest introduction to my Luddite tendencies
Favorite books at 9: The Mouse and the Motorcycle and everything by Beverly Cleary, The Borrowers series, Hardy Boys (which are trash but I read them all)
Favorite books at 12: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (I read every Civil War novel I could get my hands on), Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Favorite books at 15: Brave New World, Dandelion Wine, When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, The Call of the Wild, The Red Pony (I read all of Steinbeck except Grapes of Wrath), A Christmas Carol, Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Mutiny on the Bounty, and more....
MtB
Favorite book at 5: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, my earliest introduction to my Luddite tendencies
Favorite books at 9: The Mouse and the Motorcycle and everything by Beverly Cleary, The Borrowers series, Hardy Boys (which are trash but I read them all)
Favorite books at 12: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (I read every Civil War novel I could get my hands on), Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Favorite books at 15: Brave New World, Dandelion Wine, When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, The Call of the Wild, The Red Pony (I read all of Steinbeck except Grapes of Wrath), A Christmas Carol, Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Mutiny on the Bounty, and more....
MtB
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Curious George!
I had forgotten Mike Mulligan, thanks for reminding me.
You're welcome...and I forgot Curious George, thanks to Tinmantoo for reminding me of that!
I recommend Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff and Hall. A boy's adventure story like a lot of the things I read as a boy, but I re-read it as an adult and enjoyed it maybe even a little more than the first time.
MtB
Sadly out of print for a long time now (at least this edition with this cover).
My favorites included the Encyclopedia Brown Books, the Alfred Hitchcock/Three Investigators books. I also enjoyed "My Side of the Mountain" and "Hatchet". I was also really into the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books.
Something I was watching a couple weeks ago made reference to Johnny Cash's version of A Boy Named Sue, and it inspired me to order Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree.
4th grade, “Fifteen Battles that Changed the World” by Robert Silverberg. Ignited my lifelong love of military history.
Robert Silverberg....did he write "Lord Valentine's Castle" , the Sci/Fi - Fantasy trilogy? Or am I thinking of someone else @Quaznoid ? My leaking brane sometimes remembers things it never learned...
Most likely. Silverberg is best known for his science fiction
