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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 3, 2019 23:54:03 GMT
Asterix and Tintin if those count. The Perry Rhodan science fiction series, which my father (a big fan of science fiction) started buying for my brother and me when I was about eight or nine years old, even though it wasn't really meant for children that young (not that there was anything age-inappropriate in the books - it just that children were definitely not the target public). I was really obsessed with those books and read them for years.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 4, 2019 12:15:37 GMT
I remember reading a series of books about a talking dog named Himself.
They were set in Ireland. In one he went to Rome to meet the Pope!
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Post by OldSamVimes on Nov 4, 2019 20:56:03 GMT
Pinocchio.
Perhaps the best story ever.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Nov 4, 2019 22:26:54 GMT
I do recall avidly reading Donald J. Sobel's Encyclopedia Brown and Two-Minute Mysteries series books.
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Post by mmexis on Nov 5, 2019 2:23:55 GMT
Little House on the Prairie (the whole series) Anne of Green Gables a couple of animal books - Black beauty and Beautiful Joe (and all the Marguerite Henry horse books)
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Post by jackspicer on Nov 5, 2019 5:28:42 GMT
I liked "Shade's Children" by Garth Nix. I have read it at least three times, but I remember little about it other than I enjoyed it... three times. The first Harry Potter book gets an honorable mention, though I was technically a young teen and not a child.
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Post by jackspicer on Nov 5, 2019 5:34:49 GMT
Pinocchio. Perhaps the best story ever. I was expecting Pinocchio to be really dark, because I heard Pinocchio kills the talking cricket. It wasn't as dark as I was expecting, since Pinocchio hadn't really developed a relationship with the cricket like in the Disney movie. I got sidetracked into other things so I didn't finish it, but I'll get back to it.
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Post by Morgana on Nov 5, 2019 7:38:01 GMT
I love The Secret Garden. I read they are going to make either a film or a series on it. (I've forgotten which) There have been a few films made of "The Secret Garden", my favorite was the 1949 version with Margaret O'Brien, she was such a good child actress. I've seen more than one adaptation of the book, the last one was a film with Maggie Smith which I thought was great. I hope this new one doesn't go all PC and super liberal and change things.
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Post by Morgana on Nov 5, 2019 7:39:40 GMT
Thomas Brown's Schooldays. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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Post by bess1971s on Nov 6, 2019 16:38:45 GMT
All of the Little House books. I had no use for the series which I always thought was sugar coated. I also loved the Mary Poppins books. She was so smug!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Nov 6, 2019 18:38:22 GMT
All of the Little House books. I had no use for the series which I always thought was sugar coated. I also loved the Mary Poppins books. She was so smug! I also loved the Little House books even though they sometimes made me very sad, the TV series did the books a great injustice. I also liked the Anne of Green Gables books and the books by Louisa May Alcott . Another book I really liked was about the Underground Railway and Harriet Tubman but I can't remember the name of the book, I read it in the mid 1950's, my Aunt lent it to me and explained a lot about the Underground Railway, some of my ancestors that lived in Southern Illinois were part of the system, my Aunt told me some of the stories her grandmother told her, I wish I would have written them down.
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Post by Archelaus on Nov 6, 2019 21:50:30 GMT
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 6, 2019 22:06:35 GMT
All of the Hardy Boys series, but this one was one of my favorites: I also read the Three Investigators Series. I was big into WW2 history even at an early age so I checked this series of books out multiple times from the local library. It was written for a younger audience, but it wasn't dumbed down.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Nov 8, 2019 3:51:37 GMT
My favorites as a kid were The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women.
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Post by louise on Nov 10, 2019 17:10:25 GMT
Depends on what age. The first favourite books I can remember are Beatrix Potter's, especially The Tailor of Gloucester. Then when I was a little older I had a passion for the Narnia books by C.S.Lewis, which I read over and over again. When I was ten I think my favourites were the Jennings book by Anthony Buckeridge, which I also read over and over again. Then I think I was about eleven when I first read Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, and which is still my favourite book.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 10, 2019 17:23:32 GMT
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (also her other "horse" books i.e. Sea Star, King of the Wind, Stormy etc,) I also loved The Secret Garden and the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Nancy Drew books I read were from the 1930's(the blue books with orange lettering on the cover)I had a lot of those, inherited from my mom. What's especially interesting about those editions, is that if you compare them with the later ones, it's striking how much the language used in them has been somewhat 'dumbed down'. It's not as if the originals were especially challenging reads, but the sophistication of language, grammar and syntax is noticeably higher in them. I used to get a big kick out of some of the old Alfred Hitchcock anthologies, that were tailored to kids (and not all that tailored either, some of the stories were actually pretty darn scary), like Monster Museum and AH Presents Ghost Stories for Kids. In fact, I still have a copy of Monster Museum, and still enjoy re-reading it from time to time.
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Post by lunda2222 on Nov 30, 2019 3:09:53 GMT
Depends on what age.
I loved The Chronicles of Prydain by Alexander Lloyd when I was about 10 years old. At the age of 13 it was The Lord of the Rings.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Nov 30, 2019 8:20:32 GMT
When I was young and could read I hated the books for youths. When I was 11 I started reading adult books and loved those. But the time I was really young and my mom or dad would read to me, Green Eggs and Ham was my favourite.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Nov 30, 2019 18:48:31 GMT
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Superfudge, by Judy Blume. A lesson to any teachers, if you want grade level books to be used for book reports, make sure you have a book list! My eighth grade teacher openly expressed her slight disappointment to me a I chose Superfudge for a book report that year. I still got got a good grade.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 30, 2019 19:08:52 GMT
A book I read in the 8th grade was "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. It won the sci fi Hugo award in about 1954. This novel blew me away and I became an instant sci fi fan. It also introduced me to William Blake's fantastic poetry.
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