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Children's Books you still love to read today.

Mandi-chan

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What books that you read as a child do you still love to read today?

Mine are:

The Indian and the Cuboard series by Lynne Reid Banks: I've only read the first four books, just recently discovered that a fifth book had been released, and loved them. These books were HUGE when I was a kid, everyone was nuts about getting the whole series (Even though I'm 20 now, I would still like to get that last book! ^-^).

LOCH by Paul Zindel: This was a fun, and freaky, read when I was a kid. Zindel draws on his scientific background in this story of Luke Perkins, 15, nicknamed "Loch" after claiming to see a lake monster as a little boy. He and his younger sister, Zaidee, join their oceanographer father on an expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in Lake Alban in Vermont. Their leader, Cavenger, is a ruthless despot who would just as soon annihilate as preserve the Plesiosaurs, water beasts thought to be extinct for over 10 million years. The siblings and Cavenger's daughter befriend Wee Beastie and help it and its family escape to safety; Dr. Perkins, who has been diminished in his own and his childrens' eyes by selling out his ideals in his need for money, redeems himself. The book is really about what makes a family, whether human or creature, as Loch and Zaidee adjust to their mother's death and help their father regain his self-respect.

The Dear America series: Another smash hit at my school, these books act as diaries written by young girls during different periods of history. Highly recommended!

The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl:Exceedingly shy Anna, 14, narrates her life story. When she is seven, her mother tells her she must go to school. The school psychologist arrives at the run-down family mansion only to mistake Anna for a doll and somehow ends up with her in her purse. This is enough to impel the child to hide in a secret room she has readied overnight by putting up a false wall in the family library. Over the years, she adds new rooms, passages, a kitchen, peepholes; and no one notices. Although she continues repairing, baking, and sewing as her family requests, gradually her mother and older sister, Andrea, choose to forget her. When one of Andrea's ignored admirers sticks a love letter addressed to "A" into a crack in the stairs, Anna answers it, thus setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her discovery. This was a cute and entertaining book for me, I'm so glad I picked it up and read it all those years ago.

And, of course, the Harry Potter series. Nuff said :) !
 
ho humm...there are so many...

1. Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass~ Lewis Carrol. still love them!!
2. The Secret Garden & A Little Princess~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

3. The Chronicles of Narnia~ CS Lewis
 
I have great childhood memories of so many books. I certainly can't list them all. Now that I'm a mom, I am able to read a lot of my favorite picture books to my daughter, which is great. My favorite, as I've mentioned elsewhere, is Midnight Moon by Clyde Watson. I've given about a dozen copies of it as gifts since it was reissued last year.

I tend to stay away from "chapter books" because I find that rereading them often makes me wonder why I enjoyed the book so much the first time through. Chapter books for kids simply aren't written with adults in mind (at least most aren't, no comments on HP). I do have a wide collection of early chapter books and books for teens in my house. I'm sure I'll end up giving some of them a reread when my daughter gets old enough.
 
The Trixie Belden Series

Trixie Belden was my favorite thing to read as a young girl in the seventies and early eighties! She's a tomboy who belongs to a secret club (Bob-Whites of the Glen) and they solve mysteries together. There are 39 books in the series which was started by Julie Campbell. The series was finished by several ghost writers which used the name Kathryn Kenny.

As far as still reading the books and loving them? You betcha'! I've been part of a Trixie Belden online community for ten years now and we even hold annual conventions that take place where the mysteries took place in the books! So far I've travled to St. Louis and Hannibal, an Arizona Dude Ranch and will be traveling to Niagara Falls/Canada this August for our 2007 convention. I've met so many great friends through my love for the series and we get together on side trips throughout the country in between the annual conventions!
 
Chronicles of Narnia and The Iron Man

The Iron Man is one of the first books I remember reading by myself when I was young. The movie - Iron Giant - was okay, but there was so much more in the book, even though it was very short.
 
I loved Nancy Drew and recently found a box of them that I had put away. As soon as I finish Water for Elephants I am planning to read some of them and see if I still like them as an adult. I don't think I'm interested in seeing the new Nancy Drew movie.
 
I don't think a kids book should have two wolves trying to kill each other on the cover - if that's what they're actually doing.
 
I don't think a kids book should have two wolves trying to kill each other on the cover - if that's what they're actually doing.

The cover is actually fine for the age range the book is geared towards. If I remember correctly, the picture is actually of a couple of sled dogs fighting. The book is a young adult classic.
 
Watership Down is still a great favourite of mine. A real epic adventure so fully imagined that you almost forget the characters are rabbits. It works much better I think that later animals-as-heroes stories; Brian Jaques is good but the work still feels like fantasy. In Watership Down you come to believe that rabbits really are like that, speak Lapine and tell each other tales of Elahrairah.

I've always meant to read Richard Adams' other books but never got around to it! There's some for the list.
 
Watership Down is still a great favourite of mine. A real epic adventure so fully imagined that you almost forget the characters are rabbits. It works much better I think that later animals-as-heroes stories; Brian Jaques is good but the work still feels like fantasy. In Watership Down you come to believe that rabbits really are like that, speak Lapine and tell each other tales of Elahrairah.

I've always meant to read Richard Adams' other books but never got around to it! There's some for the list.

I love Watership Down. Is it really classified as a children's book though? :confused: My library has it in adult fiction, and that's always how I thought of it. Not that a 12 year old couldn't read it, but I don't think I'd give it to a 9 year old.
 
ho humm...there are so many...

1. Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass~ Lewis Carrol. still love them!!
2. The Secret Garden & A Little Princess~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Same here, especially Alice of whom I never tire. I would also add Little Women by Alcott. Some feminists don't like it, but when I read it as a girl I strongly identified with Jo who was in and of a loving family, yet knew she was different from the rest of them.
 
I don't know if this counts, but I love to read The Hobbit over and over again. I've also got The Velveteen Rabbit on my wish list. That was one of my favorite stories as a kid, and I want to have it again to read to my little nephew when I babysit (and when he's a bit older...he couldn't sit still long enough now). It's one of those that stays with you throughout your life.
 
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix...if you saw the Village, read this book. This is book is extremely similar, but ten times better and more believable than the movie that many believe was based on the book.

Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls...this book makes me cry every time I read it.

The True Confessions of Charlotte O'Doyle, I forget who it's by, but it's a wonderful book to revisit.

I'll stop there. :p
 
Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott - I read this as a young girl (I'm 48 now) and prefer this book to any of the Little Women books.

A Wrinkle In Time - Madeline L'Engle

Steel Magic - Andre Norton - I actually started reading the Witch World series in 4th grade, then went to the YA & children's books in Junior High and High School.

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - I've read the first 3 books of the series, and would like to read the rest.

Blue Willow - Doris Gates

A Horse Of Her Own - Selma Hudnut
 
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