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Favorite childhood authors and books.
« on: September 29, 2012, 08:26:05 PM »
October 1st is the 27th anniversary of the death of author E.B. White.  :viking: Charlotte's Web is a timeless classic IMO teaching children the value of love and friendship. Consequently White is one of my favorite authors that I recall from that era of my life. Beverly Cleary was another one I liked reading The Mouse And The Motorcycle, Henry Huggins etc. The Island Of The Blue Dolphins is another great kids book. What are your favorite books from when you were young?

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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2012, 08:29:40 PM »
Anne McCaffrey
Douglas Adams
Shel Silverstein
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2012, 08:33:55 PM »
I remember Beverly Cleary - Ramona and Beezus and all that. Was really young when I read those.
I used to read a lot of Enid Blyton, started off with the Wishing Chair and the Faraway Tree, heh.

I used to like a lot of factual and trivia books, I would read them over and over.
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2012, 08:42:32 PM »
Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Crazy, I'm halfway to crazy
Suicide would waste me
Homicide would break me
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2012, 09:11:15 PM »
The Babysitters Club books
The Baby Sitters Little Sister books
101 Dalmatians movie novel book
Boxcar Children books
Pokey Little Puppy

I also liked Goosebumps in my teens.





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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2012, 09:14:49 PM »
The Babysitters Club books
I read these too. Used to take me half an hour to get through one so I read a lot of them.

I also read Sweet Valley High books. The people in those were about as neurologically typical as it gets. :P
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2012, 09:17:28 PM »
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2012, 09:57:10 PM »
I had a set of illustrated encyclopedias that I read over and over along with a couple atlases and almanacs.  In middle school I started on science fiction with Dune and was somewhat obsessed with it for awhile
 
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2012, 10:08:56 PM »
Dr. Seuss
Bruce Coville
Judy Blume
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2012, 10:19:40 PM »
Judy Blume
I read her books too, they were good.

This all brings back a lot of memories. :)
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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2012, 11:20:02 PM »
"me and mr. mah" by andrea spalding. as it is dedicated to me. my grandmothers a childrens writers. also the LOTR series as my grandfather read that to me every night before bed as a kid [around 12 years old]

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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2012, 11:44:48 PM »
Dr. Seuss
Bruce Coville
Judy Blume
The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins my favorite Seuss book.

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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2012, 12:06:34 AM »
Dr. Seuss
Bruce Coville
Judy Blume
The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins my favorite Seuss book.

I have The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss. He didn't want his art seen till after he died. Had a perverted sense of humor. I love the mantrap drawing.

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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2012, 12:12:46 AM »
There aren't many children's classics I didn't read when I was a kid.  I loved to read and I read very quickly.  My parents bought a set of encyclopedias and I read them cover to cover.  I read my school textbooks cover to cover near the beginning of the school year, then when I was assigned to read parts of them thoughout the school year, it was just a review for me.  I read my dad's old textbooks, which he kept.  I read friend's books and library books.

I guess of the children's classics authors, I very much liked Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Bronte.  I also liked Leo Tolstoy, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S Lewis, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Re: Favorite childhood authors and books.
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2012, 12:18:53 AM »
There aren't many children's classics I didn't read when I was a kid.  I loved to read and I read very quickly.  My parents bought a set of encyclopedias and I read them cover to cover.  I read my school textbooks cover to cover near the beginning of the school year, then when I was assigned to read parts of them thoughout the school year, it was just a review for me.  I read my dad's old textbooks, which he kept.  I read friend's books and library books.

I guess of the children's classics authors, I very much liked Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Bronte.  I also liked Leo Tolstoy, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S Lewis, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Oh yeah The Hobbit when I was 11 or 12 then the trilogy.