What Was Your Favourite Children's Book Series, When You Were Growing Up?

Wow--talk about memory lane here...funny I never heard of Trixie Belden...who knows might go to the library and get those books out as it isn't beyond me to read children's book even now. Nope--I grew up in the Nancy Drew world....my mom had read them when she was a kid, and passed it down to me, and like you who gobbled up all the Trixie Beldon books, I gobbled up all the Nancy Drew books beginning with the first, The Secret of the Old Clock...do you know that the "author" Carolyn Keene was representative of many authors..and that the books are still written today?I show a cover of the second in the series..the yellow series I guess you can call it, as this is exactly how the books looked when I was a kid

Well, mine was Choose Your Own Adventure... i think i was able to finish all books in the library of my school before i graduated from elementary... those books fueled my passion from reading... that is why until now i love to read books... specifically children's books eventhoug i am already an adult...

One series I loved that isn't well known were The Happy Hollister books. They were about the kids in the family who found themselves in situations where they had to solve mysteries. I think I just liked the family element. Another series were the books about the Melendy family by Elizabeth Enright. The kids in this family were close knit, and seemed like regular kids (I always saw myself as Randy) but also had different adventures. I also liked the books because they were set during and just after World War II, which is one of my favorite periods of time.

it's the book called 'The Enchanted Tree' and if i'm not mistaken, it should be by Enid Blyton. i was like so hooked on it. I read and reread it for what must seems like a thousand times. it's nice because it talks about this tree where they have different houses at every 'level' and they have those stories on pixies, elves, fairies. The best part was that at the most top of the trees, there will always be a different type of magical world there that you will never know until you are there. Sigh...it kinda make me want to read it again.....

As far as I can remember, the only Book Series that I was addicted to was the Nancy Drew series when I was about 11 years, I don't really see it as a children's book, but it's around that genre :)

When i was younger, there were only a few children's book in our house and the one that I really like was nancy drew, when i first read it i couln't stop, and when i finished reading them all, i tried to read hardy boys, it was good but i still like nancy drew better

Oh yes, I loved Trixie Belden. I read every one of them that I could get my hands on too! I did read the entire series. When I was growing up, I read everything that I could get my hands on. Thankfully my mother took me to the library whenever I wanted to go pretty much so I was able to check out all the books I wanted. She would even leave me there for hours during the summer. It was great! So I read all the kids series books Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Black Stallion, Bobbsey Twins, Three Investigators, all of them and more! My favorite books were the horse books since I had a serious addiction to horses [still have that to this day too!]. And at school when the Scholastic book order papers came out, it was so exciting! I got to order most of what I wanted which was always plenty so I got tons of books of my own that way too. Books have always been an extremely important part of my life!

I forgot to mention but...my neice loves series books as well. She loves the American Girl books and the Magic Tree House series. I will buy her anything like that to get her to read. If you can read you've got it made.

I read books as a kid, but I didn't have any series type books available to me. My parents didn't take us to the library or buy any books for us, occassionally they would let me order a book from our scholastic book club at school. I used to look forward to getting those papers and getting to pick out a book just for me. Funny how I can remember some of the books but not the titles. My favorite one was a story about a young boy in Chicago I think who was poor growing up and he befreinded a cat, I remember that the cat got ran over and I cried or wait, was that a tv movie? I can't remember, it was a very long time ago. But I always encouraged my kids to read and I ALWAYS bought them books, from early on I did that. Today they are grown and very smart and still avid readers. A book can take you anywhere you want to go.

I loved the series of "Anne of Green Gables" books. I also liked the choose your own adbventures and would read the book over and over untill I had picked several different endings!LOL I had a girl friend growing up in grade school that was huge into Nancy Drew but not me...Can't get into the clues and the mysteries...Not my style. I really like love stories or "sappy" or "sad" books etc. True stories are great also. For Children I must agree with your first responder and say Dr. Seuss is my all time favourite!

Trixie Belden was a favorite of mine as well as Nancy Drew. I'd love to start collecting those books again. I grew up with them and they instilled my love of clues and mysteries. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

I had a couple of favorite series. The first one that pops to mind is The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved those books. The stories were so great. The next series that comes to mind are all the Nancy Drew books. I loved all the mystery and trying to figure out who the bad guy was.

As a young reader, just like now, I read pretty much anything I could get my hands on. One series of books that I remember loving was the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary. I have started collecting some of those so I can pass them down to my kids when the time comes.

My favorite was the Babysitters Club. I loved those books. When I was a kid there were like 80 of them and I tried to read as many as I could. I also liked the Babysitters Club Mystery series. Another set of books that I really liked (they weren't completely a series, I guess) were the Amelia Bedelia books. I thought they were so funny when I was a kid.

My favourites growing up were Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Sweet Valley High series. I loved the suspense with reading detective stories and the Sweet Valley series mainly talk about growing up.