books you read as a child

[blunt_smoker_420]

Looking back when i was in grade school i remember all the books i read but no one else does!! I am interested in what book you have read as a kid, some of my favorites were Henry and Fudge, Where the Wild Things are, and Polar express

[MissTaken]

Superfudge was my favorite book.

[fourwalls]

does the little mermad storybook apply?

I remember the next thing I read was when I was still in elementary, a James patterson novel...

[mesmel]

all enid blyton books were my fav when i was a kid :smile:

[Ren_Sk8rgurl]

as a kid, I read every single Goosebumps book, Berstein Bears books (don't know if that's spelled), Captain Underpants, Ralph the Mouse books, Poppy was good, a few others too.

[octocheese]

Earliest book memories are Robert the Road Runner and the Frog and Toad stories. Later the Double Disappearance of Walter Somebody (can't remember now), Bunickula, Prisoner of Vampires (reread the book so many times!) and the Christopher White Tripod Series which I still reread occasionally.

[novae]

Animorph series, Harry Potter, Bunickula series (at least some books), Anne of Green Gables books, The Ancient One, some Goosbumps...that's all that I can remember for the moment. I read Where the Wild Things Are before elementary school, I think. I know that I have gone back to it a couple of times since.

[Ren_Sk8rgurl]

I forgot all about the Bunickula and Animorphs series. Especially Animorphs, I started reading that before Goosebumps.

[ninski]

awww..i like this thread ^_^ i remember the Goosebumps series, and the Scary Stories series (the one with the skull on the cover) and The Babysitters Club (whow how did that get there!) and Where the Wild Things Are...i think i was trying to follow the Reading Rainbow book list ^_^ hehe i miss that show...does it still exist? oh and to kill a Mockingbird... EVERYONE frikkin' read that book...it's THE BEST! ^_^

[blunt_smoker_420]

animorphs!!!! omg i forgot i loved those it was cool cause if you flipped through the pages the guy would change lol good times with those books

[TW501]

When I was really young I remember being fond of the hungry hungry catipillar and that book with the steam shovel (I can't remember what it was called). There were also a few others that I can't remember, including some cute christmas-themed ones. In early elementary school, I also read Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, and the Hardy Boys, along with a bunch of other books. I've always been a bookworm, so I've read more books than I can count.

[ShadySovereign]

As a kid, I was reading the Goosebumps series mostly. But younger than that (6-8 years approximately), I was reading random short stories for children. I wish I remembered the names! :push:

[blunt_smoker_420]

o ya i forgot i read alot of the choose your own path books

[Chantal]

Ibbeltje and Pluk van de Petteflet.

[Korbenik]

hmm books that come to mind would be Capt. Underpants, goosebumps, sum disney books, and um oh yea animorphs also lol

[redfable]

I used to read the book called parts and capt.underparts haaaa good times

[Pagan Altar]

I used to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Way back...

[Skirr]

The Chronicles of Narnia

[Wras]

Animorphs, Captain Underpants, and novelizations of whatever movie was out at the time due to the 4 pages of movie footage in the middle :P

[blunt_smoker_420]

I used to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Way back...

Omg i loved that book to lol and rainbow fish.

[Sawyer]

Amazing how I remember all of these in a flash...

- The Superkids (1st thru 3rd grade)
- Gulliver's Travels (5th grade)
- Goosebumps
- The Gymnasts (I was a gymnastics addict :nod: )
- The Babysitters Club (what can I say, my school library didn't have too much variety)
- The Prydain Chronicles (up to this point, I don't think I was a 'kid' anymore...)

I also had to read excruciatingly boring books for Spanish classes. :sick: I think I made an effort to forget what they were a while ago. :push:

[airyie]

I read goosbumps, and when I finished those, animorphs (didn't like them as much)...and then some of the fear street series...and then some christopher pike and harry potter...and just about every other young adult trashy horror novel that 1/2 price had on the shelf. I'd come in almost weekly to get a new book....those were the good old days when books were only like 1.50 to 3.45 per book.

...now that I think about it, i also read the boxcar children and jane yollen's dragon trilogy. Infact, I still read them when we get major storms here.

[Matie]

I read Winnie the Pooh and the Harry Potter books. I still think the blue Winnie the Pooh book is awesome to read before I go to sleep :amused:

[Birdyjames]

Ive read the Saga and Demonata of Darren Shan.They are the first (only) series of books i have read all the way through, unputdownable!:guitar1:

[airyie]

^meh. I could only read the first 3 or 4 before I got bored.

edit: Matie...you're adorable.

[dynamo]

Goosebumps, fuck yeah.

[Skye]

^ haha yea, i thought they were awesome when i was younger! but i looked back at them and they really sucked XD
i used to read marvel comic books, and i loved 'a very hungry caterpillar' when i was little :amused:

[RipVanRagnarok]

Hatchet
The first four Harry Potter books
Uh, I read Heathcliff comics
Goosebumps (Night of the Living Dummy)
And a bunch of stuff my various teachers read

[Zaylen]

Hercules and esopes stories xD

[kochito22]

Where the Wild Things Are
The Cat in the Hat
Are You My Mother?

[Rosh]

Cat in the hat, Roal dahl books, and other books teachers read out

[airyie]

"is your mama a llama?" = the best child's book ever!!!!

[Thanatyr]

Oh so many, time to think.
Animorphs, Chronicles of Narnia, Bunincula, Calvin & Hobbes (They were in books. Attack of the Babysitter for example)
Hell, I can't remember the rest.

[blunt_smoker_420]

Ive read the Saga and Demonata of Darren Shan.They are the first (only) series of books i have read all the way through, unputdownable!:guitar1:

I also read that series along with Cirque Du Freak, good books.

[B_K_E]

Only series I really got into were the Deltora Quest series. There were 8 in the first series, then 3 in the second series, then 4 in the last series. Read those in a row like 20 times lol. I think I have them in my room still somewhere.

[He's a Mentalist]

Captain Underpants. That book was much better than Harry Potter.

[B_K_E]

I remember reading that comic book, good times.

[crisis point]

Roald Dahls Fanastic Mister Fox

[blunt_smoker_420]

I also tried reading series of unfortunate events, never could finish them though.

[nuttychemist]

I can't believe I remember any book titles that I read growing up... since it seems like eons ago :)

-Dr. Suess (all of them)
- Sweet Pickles (its a series of little kid books, super cute)
- Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys
- Julie of the Wolves
- The Fly
- Matilda, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Great Glass Elevator
- Babysitter's Club
- Christopher Pike books
- Chronicals of Narnia
- The Hobbit
- Rhoda's Resturant
- Bunnikula, Celery Stalks at Midnight
- Wrinkle in Time
there are many more books but I can't remember the titles... Ooo! To Kill a Mocking Bird and Pride & Prejudice

[blunt_smoker_420]

I remember A Wrinkle In Time, that book was crazy.

[Don Panini]

Roald Dahl, Cat in a hat, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials...oh and like a lot of you guys have said already the goosebumps books.

[RsR]

I only had my father's encyclopedia set when I was young. I read the book for the letter L a lot. I wanted to know more about Lava, Libya, and Lions.

[captainjack613]

I didn't get into reading very much until middle school, but I remember I was really into the Broken Sky series by Chris Wooding.

[dyne]

agent 146

[Aidan]

animorphs. I was WAY into animorphs around 4th-5th grade. shit was so cool back then.
let's see... definitely roald dahl stuff, apparently I read A Wrinkle in Time in kindergarden, I don't recall. I also read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes and Asterix & Obelix. and Tintin.

[fractal]

atlas shrugged.

no one does childhood reading like ayn rand.

[frack]

I prefer The Fountainhead, but Atlas Shrugged is no less fantastic.

I was a big Redwall series buff. I still kind of am.

[Thelegendofmetal]

The Hobbit-a literary work of art, J.R.R. Tolkien I salute you

[Laepo]

i never like reading when i was young, i only read the goosebumps books..now i do like, a lot!

[Sony]

Kathy and Mark series
Goosebumps
sex ed books
Dark is Rising

[Marauda]

The Bible.
Goosebumps.
Green Eggs and Ham.

[Koshka_Goddess]

Nancy Drew, Beezus and Ramona, Encyclopedia Brown, Watership Down, Star Wars (book version of the movies), A Wrinkle in Time, and many others whose titles I cannot recall at this time. :yorucat:

[duck.duck.moose]

The Boxcar Children
Poppy, Poppy & Rye, Ragweed... I think that Avi kept writing more of these but I never read them.
Silverwing, Sunwing, and Firewing (Kenneth Oppel)

[Koshka_Goddess]

Oh, I forgot. Anne of Green Gables and Pippy Longstocking. :amused:

[micsquared]

The Magic Tree House, I think it was called.

The series where the siblings use their treehouse to travel through time.

[Shunshin Yoruichi]

I thought Tears of a Tiger was a really good book. A bit morbid though.

[zarkenpachi]

oh i remember mine it was cats in the hat or something like that

[[-Shirion-]]

oh i remember mine it was cats in the hat or something like that

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss; absolutely classic.

I really didn't read many children books, but here are some of them that I really enjoyed:

Where the Wild Things Are
Goosebumps
Chronicles of Narnia
Green Eggs and Ham

[Sorakizu Masamune]

When I was three-ish, I absolutely loved the Little Critter books. Dr. Suess, not so much, but I read them because it was something to read. I also enjoyed Shell Silverstine, Bunnicula, Watership Down, The Magic School Bus...wish I could remember more.

(Okay. I feel old, now.)

[micsquared]

When I was three-ish, I absolutely loved the Little Critter books. Dr. Suess, not so much, but I read them because it was something to read. I also enjoyed Shell Silverstine, Bunnicula, Watership Down, The Magic School Bus...wish I could remember more.

(Okay. I feel old, now.)

Shell Silverstein is amazing.

[Koshka_Goddess]

Where the Sidewalk Ends was the only poetry book I have ever read. :gj:

[micsquared]

That was pretty much the basis for my enjoyment of poetry to this day. You gotta love it.

[deadp00l]

the only book i remember reading as a child was wheres waldo?....that bastard was hard to find...its like he owed child support money....and the moron kept losing his stuff....maybe he should have crazy glued all of it onto himself

[shinji]

The only books I read as a child with enthusiasim was properly the darren shan saga. But alas the new film they are bringing out is gona crush those fond memories.

[Sahar]

I was addicted to Roald Dahl books.

[Rayne]

I remember reading a lot of books as a child, but The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings books were definitely my favorites.

[notorious UZIMAKI]

arabian nights, lord of the rings, the alchemist, childcraft books, shel silverstein, bearnstein bears, chronicles of narnia. ah good times

[veldalight]

Read alot but vivid memories of reading Enid Blyton's books, Agatha Christie's books, Sherlock Holmes, lotsa fairy/Greek/international tales and Pride and Prejudice.

[d2sharp]

The only one thats comes to mind is "Not now bernard". Best book ever.LMAO!!

[Kuhn]

Shell Silverstein is amazing.

Agreed.

I was addicted to Roald Dahl books.

Same here, his stories are amazing.

Let's see, what else? I read quite a bit as a kid, but books that I remember clearly were the Magic Tree House stories, the Bailey School Kids stories, Amalia Bedilia stuff, Alice in Wonderland, those <insert some school authority> from the black lagoon stories, oh yes, I definitely wasted quite a bit of time hunting down Waldo as well. lol

[DarkBunny]

The deltora quest series,harry potter,paul jennings,roald dahl etc

[Sotnos]

Grimms' book. It's so better than the disney versions but it's kind of bloody for a children book.
I remember one story, and disney didnt remake this one(good thing I guess) about a woman who cut her step-son's throat, then put the head on the dead body and made it maintain there with a scarf. Then his little sister talks to him and thinks he is ignoring her, she slaps him and the head falls down. The mother makes her believe she's the one who killed him and asks her to help her to cut the corpse in little pieces. They put them in the meal, and the dad eats his own son saying it tastes delicious. I dont remember how it ends but the boy's soul is avenged somehow.

[Koshka_Goddess]

In the old days (like the days of the Brothers Grimm) children's stories were not as sugar coated as they are today. Life was harsher and therefore so were the stories. :yorucat:

[Count Alucard]

Some Marvel comics and MAD but now I'm into manga.

[Exidemic]

Just about anything by Brian Jacques was great when I was a kid.

[Raylan]

Goosebumps and The Outsiders are the ones I remember the most lol

[jeuxaijin]

first books i remember loving were the mr men series

aw mr greedy, you so funny

[aastik01]

animorphs and the dragon rider.

[sakura487]

i remember when i was little i used to read the berenstain bears all the time! it was my favorite but now i havent even seen one in years.:sad:

[Yadomaru]

used to read the Hardy Boys...went through a Ultimate Spider-Man phase while I was in Middle School.

[Queen Neliel]

I read a whole bunch of books when I was little, but my favorite was the abridged version of A Tale of Two Cities; I read it when I was eight. It made me cry at the end.

[lostinthought]

Reading books had always been one of my hobbies, even since when I was still in grade school. Well the idea of going to places, time travelling and being on another person's shoes without leaving the comfort of your seat seemed to have stuck with me from then till now.

Here are some of the books I've read (can't remember them all)

Peter Pan
Oliver Twist
some book that's a compilation of different fairy tales
Gulliver's Travels
Jack and the Beanstalk
Alice in Wonderland
Little Women

[The Desolate One, Grimace]

The books I read as a wee lil boy was The Hobbit,Lord of The Rings,A variety of Tom Clancy Books,and The Things They Carried

[tminustwelve]

i still have a book called "A Porcupine Named Fluffy"; still a favorite. i loved the lesser Dr. Seuss Books, "On Beyond Zebra" i still have. definitely the "If You Give A [blank] A [blank]" books. i remember reading Nancy Drew books like my life depended on it, and middle school i was big on Daughters of the Moon.

[BlueSkies]

All Roald Dahl books - especially Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[Yachiru7979]

Everything by Hans Christian Andersen.

But i was more into comics tbh. I loved Don Rosa :3

[DerekDarko]

R.L. Stein all the way.

[Ririn-sama]

Hans Christian Andersen's, Redyard (sp?) Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and a shitload of Russian fairytale writers.

[ulysses]

cruel queens and mean kings

[NakeBenihime]

I read a lot when I was a kid but I forgot what I read except for my favorite book all time. Trapped in Death Cave.

[Fraust]

I used to love reading Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books. Others are:
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Treasure Island
Death Trap

[t_kamaro]

i like to read the book that only have picture like cinderella or whatever it is when i'm a child...
:p

[AshterBlank]

I was always reading when I was younger but one of my favorites was Where the Wild Things Are. Love it.

[gdwolf]

I was always reading when I was younger but one of my favorites was Where the Wild Things Are. Love it.

Yes, this was my favorite book back then :rockin:
It's now a movie o_0.

[Hisagi_Chan]

I read too much to really remember what i read as a child but the one that sticks most in my mind is The Three Musketeers

[Roostophe]

When i was really young i used to love The Hungry Catterpilar and Flat Stanley

early teens stuff like Adrian Mole Diaries

[Ulquiorra_is_Mine]

Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Matilda!!!!!

[Matthew]

When i was really young i used to love The Hungry Catterpilar and Flat Stanley

early teens stuff like Adrian Mole Diaries

Omg! The Caterpillar by Robert Munch.

Awesome picture book.

[TheAizenFaction]

When I was little I read a lot of Robert Munch books and of course Where the Wild Things Are. :O I didn't watch the movie though.. :[

[Yexley]

Fantastic Five was a series I read I think. Redwall books too.

[Grimmjow_san]

Hank The Cowdog and Goosebumps

[Hollow_Flare]

The outsiders...

hell most of the books I've read in school are most likely banned for having some stupid soccer mom issue.

[Matthew]

Hank The Cowdog and Goosebumps

I was banned from Goosebumps. My parents were afraid that it would give me nightmares.

Ah, I miss those days.

[1kuranai1]

Christopher Pike!!! and then Alice in Wonderland like 100 times lol my favorite =)

[Matthew]

Christopher Pike!!! and then Alice in Wonderland like 100 times lol my favorite =)

I assume you like. "Through the Looking Glass" as well? I dont know if that is the correct title, but its the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

[1kuranai1]

I assume you like. "Through the Looking Glass" as well? I dont know if that is the correct title, but its the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

but of course!!!!!

[Matthew]

but of course!!!!!

Argh!!! How was it? (eyes widen)

I never got a chance to read that book.

[1kuranai1]

Argh!!! How was it? (eyes widen)

I never got a chance to read that book.

Way more trippy than the first lol...it is worth the read:nod:

[ghostthegreat]

I remember that the first novel I ever started to read was The Sword of Shannara at around age 5 or 6. Surprisingly, I think I got a hundred pages or so in before I gave up on it do to lack of understanding the story because of all the big words I couldn't understand :bigsmile:. I re-read it later on of course. After that I read all the Goosebumps, most of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe series. Read a bunch actually, noteable standouts that I can still remember being The Giver, Charlotte's Web, and The Indian in the Cupboard.

[Matthew]

Ah the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. After the book, my teachers made us watch the movie, and I don't mean the most recent one. Aslan was some guy in a costume and some creatures were even animated in cartoon style.

[Nida_Nightmare]

Charlie chocolate factory, R.L. Stine & Enid Blyton

[misty]

When I was really little, my favorite book was called "Rain Makes Applesauce". I also really liked "One Fish Two Fish". In later elementary, my favorites were "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimb" and "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". Junior high and high school, it was "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "A Tale of Two Cities". What can I say? I'm a classics fan.