Books from your Childhood

[BrokenVisage]

After recently viewing an FW thread on cheap "Children's Books" such as: 'Bratz Vs. Boyz' and 'Meet the Adelies with Tattoos' I promptly shook my head and started to think about what I would consider to be some REAL children's books. See, I was never really into books at any point of my life, but when I was younger I do remember a few that I either read or were read to me that for some reason stuck with me mentally through today. There's not many, but what I'm hoping for is you guys listing your books to help jog my mind into remembering others. Mine are:

The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Socks for Supper
The Chocolate Touch

Anyone else?

 

[hypn0tik]

Where the Red Fern Grows
The Trumpet of the Swan

 

[slsmnaz]

The only one I remember was Fire Cat. We read it many times growing up and I still have it to read to my kids.

 

[apac]

Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go FTW

 

[irishScott]

Frog and Toad (all)
Good Night Moon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Hardy Boys (all)
Goosbumps (all)
Encyclopedia Brown (all)
Bernstein Bears (all)
Magic School Bus (all)
Animorphs (all)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Memorized this one before I even knew how to read. )
The Grouchy Ladybug
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Dr. Seuss
A House for Hermit Crab

And about 5 more where I can picture the covers but can't remember the titles.

Edit: The X from the Black Lagoon (X = Teacher, Doctor, and a few other jobs IIRC).

 

[nageov3t]

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Neverending Story
anything by Madeleine L'Engle (though the Many Waters cover may or may not have turned my gay)
The Westing Game
The Hobbit (I read LotR as a kid too, but I never really appreciated Tolkien's writing style as much as I did as an adult)

 

[blackdogdeek]

the cat in the hat
hop on pop
james and the giant peach

 

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

Boxcar Children
Hatchet (my favorite at the time)
Indian in the Cupboard

 

[Saint Nick]

boxcar children
indian in the cupboard
hatchet
the giver
how to eat fried worms
james and the giant peach
lots of books by gary paulsen

 

[MaxDepth]

My childhood was in the late sixties to early seventies.

Books I remember reading:

-Tom Corbet, Space Cadet (series)
-The Hardy Boys (series)
-How to eat fried worms
-(I wish I remembered the title)story about a kid who invents a frictionless grease, but because he made it out of sugar, the prices for candy bars and other sweets were astronomical or too expensive to make. -- my very first lesson in macro economics.

 

[BurnItDwn]

go dog go

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
My childhood was in the late sixties to early seventies.

Books I remember reading:

-Tom Corbet, Space Cadet (series)
-The Hardy Boys (series)
-How to eat fried worms
-(I wish I remembered the title)story about a kid who invents a frictionless grease, but because he made it out of sugar, the prices for candy bars and other sweets were astronomical or too expensive to make. -- my very first lesson in macro economics.

I still have some of the 8 Tom Corbet, Space Cadet books but they are in bad shape.
Also read The Hardy Boys.
-Tom Swift
-Tom Swift Jr
-Heinlein's juveniles and by 5th/6th grade some of his other stuff
-Mushroom Planet series
-Henry Huggins books (Beverly Cleary)
-Danny Dunn books
-Grimm's Fairy Tales
-Uncle Wiggily
-Disney collected stories books
-Twilight Zone stories books
-Alfred Hitchcock stories books
-Zane Grey westerns
-Roy Rodgers western stories
-All About books
-Henrey Felsen car stories

 

[*kjm]

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Where The Wild Things Are

Yep Im old

 

[loup garou]

Lots of books I remember in here.

This reminds me, I've been trying to remember this book I read when I was a kid. It was originally my uncle's from when he was young, so it was probably published in the 60s.

My memories of it are very vague -- I'm not certain I ever finished reading it. It had to do with a kid in Louisiana, Florida, or Georgia who had a canoe or a pirogue or something and paddled out into the swamp. He may or may not have gotten lost? I seem to remember something with Indian burial mounds as well, but my memories are very hazy.

I do remember the edition was hardcover, bound in an almost neon green and light blue, with an illustration in these colors on the cover...

It's been driving me crazy trying to remember for years -- I'd been meaning to dig through my grandparents' attic to look for it, but unfortunately never did before Katrina destroyed their house. This may be a book that no one out of Louisiana has ever heard of though...it could have been locally published.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Aesop's Fables
Grimm's Fairy tales
Alice in Wonderland Series
Just So Stories
Jungle Book
Giant Blue Book of Fairy Tales
Giant Red Book of Fairy Tales
Black Beauty
Flicka
Norse Mythology
Greek Mythology
Asian Mythology
Dr Seuss
Wind in the Willows
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Little House on the Prairie
Little Women
The Borrowers
The Incredible Journey
Harriet the Spy
Mrs. Pigglewiggle
Charlotte's Web
Mary Poppins
Pippi Longstocking
Winnie the Pooh
Heidi
Tom Sawyer

There are so many great children's classics out there that kids should never even have the chance to read sludge. Please don't take the attitude, "as long as they're reading it's all good."

 

[BassBomb]

roal dahl stuff was epic

My sister (2 years older) would read me "The Witches". It was so good.

I also loved goosebumps, animorphs, bernstein bears

When I got a little older I read a few books by Ken Oppel about bats. I want to finish that series.

The only books I've still kept reading are Harry Potter, but thats all finished

 

[mundane]

The Three Investigators (introduced by my third grade teacher)

 

[*kjm]

Originally posted by: loup garou
Lots of books I remember in here.

This reminds me, I've been trying to remember this book I read when I was a kid. It was originally my uncle's from when he was young, so it was probably published in the 60s.

My memories of it are very vague -- I'm not certain I ever finished reading it. It had to do with a kid in Louisiana, Florida, or Georgia who had a canoe or a pirogue or something and paddled out into the swamp. He may or may not have gotten lost? I seem to remember something with Indian burial mounds as well, but my memories are very hazy.

I do remember the edition was hardcover, bound in an almost neon green and light blue, with an illustration in these colors on the cover...

It's been driving me crazy trying to remember for years -- I'd been meaning to dig through my grandparents' attic to look for it, but unfortunately never did before Katrina destroyed their house. This may be a book that no one out of Louisiana has ever heard of though...it could have been locally published.

No your striking coards for me also and I'm 42 and grew up in Wisconsin.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: mundane
The Three Investigators (introduced by my third grade teacher)

Mr. Chatterbox

The Hardy Boys
Childcraft Encyclopedias
Dr. Seuss
there are more but i cannot think of them at the moment.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: NightDarker
boxcar children
indian in the cupboard
hatchet
how to eat fried worms
james and the giant peach

all of these, and I read a lot of books by John Belair. I think it was 2, maybe 3 different series. Mysteries and such.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: *kjm

Originally posted by: loup garou
Lots of books I remember in here.

This reminds me, I've been trying to remember this book I read when I was a kid. It was originally my uncle's from when he was young, so it was probably published in the 60s.

My memories of it are very vague -- I'm not certain I ever finished reading it. It had to do with a kid in Louisiana, Florida, or Georgia who had a canoe or a pirogue or something and paddled out into the swamp. He may or may not have gotten lost? I seem to remember something with Indian burial mounds as well, but my memories are very hazy.

I do remember the edition was hardcover, bound in an almost neon green and light blue, with an illustration in these colors on the cover...

It's been driving me crazy trying to remember for years -- I'd been meaning to dig through my grandparents' attic to look for it, but unfortunately never did before Katrina destroyed their house. This may be a book that no one out of Louisiana has ever heard of though...it could have been locally published.

No your striking coards for me also and I'm 42 and grew up in Wisconsin.

Oh lord, I think I found it. I don't know how it popped up, I swear I just did another google search with the same terms I have before. Now to see if I can find a synopsis and anything clicks in my mind.

 

[sdifox]

Time/Life library of Nature, Science, etc.

Covers a broad spectrum of shallow information

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Huckleberry Finn
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson
White Fang
Anne of Green Gables
The Sword in the Stone
Kidnapped
Robinson Crusoe
The Gift of the Magi
A Christmas Carol
Around the World in Eighty Days
Robin Hood

I'm getting so excited thinking about these old children's stories, I may have to reread them!

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I'm getting so excited thinking about these old children's stories, I may have to reread them!

My dad was in college when I was born (returned home from Vietnam with the GI Bill to pay for college). I remember trying to read on of his books because of the title, "The Voyage of the Beagle," when I was five.

Cliffnotes: there was no Beagle.

 

[MedicBob]

Charlette's Web and The Hardy Boys are what I remember the most.