What were some of your favorite children's books when you were little?

@ma_belle (1357)
United States
September 20, 2007 1:23am CST
I remember loving a picture book about Grover from Sesame Street and how he was scared of a monster at the end of the book. It turned out he was the monster at the end of the book! I also remember loving The Babysitters Club books and Sweet Valley High. I also loved reading Beverly Clearly. What books did you love as a child?
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• Malaysia
20 Sep 07
I really like reading this book "Hensel And Gretel". From the first time I read it, I had liked it and had read it numerous times. I was fascinated at how the house was built using candies and sweeties only. I remembered imagining how it would feel sitting inside a house made of chocolates, sweet, candies and all the delicacies a child would ever dream of. It must be a very happy experience indeed. I still keep the book with me. And when I have the time I will read it to my niece who is just reaching her second birthday soon. I think she likes this book too, by the way she looks at it and wanting me to read it again and again. Lol.
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@eprado (1467)
• Philippines
20 Sep 07
Hello ma_belle, My favorite children's books when I was a kid are comic books of Superman, Batman and other superheroes. I like reading them and looking at the many wonderful pictures on the pages. I also like to read Choose Your Own adventures pocket books then. I was excited reading through the many adventure you have to choose as you go along reading the book. At the same time you had to flip the pages back and forth, jumping from one adventure to another depending on the choice you've made. It was fun. :-)
@twowizdom (861)
• Philippines
20 Sep 07
When I was a kid I really enjoy reading pop-up books especially those which are Disney stories. I could remember myself back when i was a pre-schooler and every time my classes ends I always go to our school's library and read story books the books that I usually read are The Adventures of Mikey Mouse, Peter pan and the Beauty and the Beast. I really love those stories. ^_^
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• United States
20 Sep 07
I love Beverly Cleary, too! Ramona Quimby was my hero for a while. I also loved Judy Blume books, The Little House on the Prairie books, the Redwall series, and everything by Roald Dahl. I read a lot as a kid--I wish I had more time to read now!
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@youless (112123)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 07
Ding Dong is my favorite comics when I was a little. I still have some comics about this cartoon. I like it very much. Perhaps when my child grows up a little, he will like to read it, too.
@alamode (3071)
• United States
20 Sep 07
The one book I remember from my childhood was called 'The Wooden Locket'... it was about immigrant families, and the first time I understood what people went through to survive, leaving everything they knew and loved and moving on, was when I read it in fourth grade. It made a huge impression on how I saw the world, and changed me forever.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
20 Sep 07
I liked the Babysitter's Club. I also enjoyed the Secret World of Og, as well as Lucy Maud Montgomery books.
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@Tarrish (562)
• United States
20 Sep 07
My favorite children's book every was "The Giving Tree". That book is so sad, and I understood it so much more when I got older. Great little story. When I was a pre-teen I was obsessed with Goosebumps, anything else RL Stine and Christopher Pike books. :)
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
20 Sep 07
when i was little my favourite series was the dr suess series...i loved every book he wrote and i even still have a few of his from my childhood...when i was a little older i loved the little house on the praries series.
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@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
20 Sep 07
I used to love the Famous Five, Superseven, Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys also loved the books by Roald Dahl(Charlie and the Chocolate factory), though old, the library I used to go to had the complete sets, I read them all, though these books are no longer as popular. Charlie and the Chocolate factory might be more known due to the Tim Burton, Johnny Depp film. I also loved to read classics the Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island I rarely read the library books more than once athough many are now politically incorrect and I don't know if they would be accepted.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
21 Sep 07
The Gingerbread Man, Curious George for starters. I loved them. I ended up reading The Gingerbread Man to my daughters when they were little. They liked that a lot. They also liked Clifford, the big Red Dog.
@Nardz13 (5055)
• New Zealand
21 Sep 07
Hi there. I can remember I use to like reading "Doctor Suess Books", "Sesame Street Books" and the books that had pop up pictures...
@syaobai (33)
• Singapore
20 Sep 07
I love reading Charlie and the Chocoloate factory when I was little cause it was fascinating to know what happens to the other kids. I also love short stories by Enid Blyton
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• Canada
21 Sep 07
When I was a kid I used to enjoy reading curious george. The cute little monkey that always ran away from the man in the yellow suit. I loved those books and I think they made a show out of it now. =)
@raychill (6525)
• United States
20 Sep 07
There's a Monster at the end of this book! I have that book! Actually my all time favorite book from when I was a kid is a book called "The Piggy in the Puddle" it's like "see the piggy, see the puddle, see the muddy little puddle. see the piggy short and little in the muddy muddy middle" and the father, mother and brother all want her to get out and clean off. She says nope! Then in the end the rest of them all jump in and get all muddy! it's cute. It was like my favorite book. I read a lot of R.L. Stine books too. Like, the fear street kind and stuff. I wasn't really into Goosebumps and I was a little too old for Goosebumps when they came out.
@maybebaby (1230)
• Canada
20 Sep 07
I use to love the Chronicles of Narnia. First I like the cartoon and then my mom bought me the books. I was kind of young so she had to read them to me the first time through. I revisited them when I was old enough to read them on my own and I loved them. They are still some of my favorites.