What is your favorite childhood book? Your favorite adulthood book?

I didn't read children's books until I was an adult, so I'm not sure I have any favorites there. I do like some of the teen-level fantasy authors like Tamora Pierce. I also really like "The Dark is Rising" series by Susan Cooper, but like I said, I didn't read them as a child. As a child, I read things like Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe... lots of horror. I also read a lot of the classics then. I would have to say my favorite book of all time is "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach.

I absolutely agree with 'Where the Wild Things Are', I did not have it when I was a child, my parents never got us books or read them to us, shame really. Thats probably why I have so many books now - thousands. I bought it for my children and they absolutely loved it and so did I. My children are all adults and i still have the book that I used to read to them! My favourite adult book has to be books , they are by Ayn Rand, The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged. One follows the other, a freind bought them for me about 25 years ago and they changed my life. I am still moved by both of them, if anyone wants to read them make sure you read The Fountain Head first. Great post

My favorite when I was a kid would be toss up between Curious George, Horton Hears a Who and Morris the Moose series. I still love Morris the Moose Goes to School. I can even now still see images from the pages in my mind, see the place I lived in when I read it. Thanks for bringing back a strong happy memory. Now as then my favorite is hard to pin down to just one book. Anything by Peter David, that man has a wicked sense of humor, and a book that is part of the star trek series of books a book written many years ago by John M Ford called How Much For Just the Planet I laughed so hard that I actually couldn't read more than once I had to stop reading due to laughing so much. Though there are other authors and books that stand out, that I re-read, I do re-read that one whenever I need a good laugh. Or as I said anything by Peter David.

The only childrens book I remember from when I was really little is CORDUROY, and I just read it to my kids the other day for the first time and its strange because It wasnt all that interesting but some reason that is the one title that sticks in my head, it could of been the pictures of him in the dark and the big building. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are my all time favorites and I have read them over and over growing up. I think I related them the most because I grew up deep in the woods where we were allowed to roam free even as children. (Charlottes Web I did read over a couple times) As an adult, Wally Lamb's "I know This much is true"

My favorite book as a child was also, Where the Wild Things Are. As a teenager it was Mr. and Mrs. Bojo Jones. As an adult I would say any book in the Stephanie Plum number series, by Janet Evanovich.

My favorite childhood book? The encyclopedia. seriously... Nowadays, I prefer reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez books. My favorite, Hundred Years of Solitude.