Books from your Childhood

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Tortoise and the Hare, quite possibly one of the best books ever

 

[BrokenVisage]

Definitely remember a lot of these books, damn now I feel old in my mid-20's. One that wasn't mentioned but just popped into my head is a book about a penny tree or something, I do know it had to do with pennies being planted in the ground and was heavy on the illustrations. I looked around online and can't find anything that reminded me of it, initially thought it was simply called "The Penny Tree" but that doesn't seem to be it. Any ideas?

 

[ChaoZ]

Goosebumps

 

[Delita]

Beverly Cleary books
Indian and the Cupboard series (I think there is 4)
Boxcar Children
Roald Dahl books
The Giver
Castle In the Attic
Maniac McGee
Stuart Little
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Bridge to Terabithia
The Phantom Tollboth

EDIT: I keep on remembering all these great ones!

 

[Kadarin]

The ones that stand out for me are the Danny Dunn books, and A Wrinkle in Time.

 

[jai6638]

The Hardy Boys
Famous Five by Enid Blyton
Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Animorphs

Man.. those were great books

 

[Ultralight]

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

I still have a book or two of that series!

 

[nerp]

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

 

[ObiDon]

charlie and the great glass elevator
the tv kid
choose your own adventure

 

[Nitemare]

Where the red fern grows
Old Yeller
Watership Down
Choose your own adventure series
Hardy Boys
Three Investigators
Huckleberry Finn
Lion the witch and the wardrobe
Ender's Game
Xenocide
Speaker for the Dead

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

 

[anxi80]

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
where the sidewalk ends
a light in the attic

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Ramona the Pest
Half Magic
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Velveteen Rabbit
Andersen's Fairy Tales
The Rover Boys Series
The OZ series (I can't believe I almost forgot these!)
Rip Foster Space Cadet
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Witch World Series
20,000 leagues under the sea
Norby
The Tripod Trilogy
The Red Planet
Have Spacesuit Will Travel

 

[jjones]

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Hitchcock's ghost stories, Danny Dunn, Chronicles of Prydain (by Lloyd Alexander; some may remember the Disney movie, The Black Cauldron, which was based on this series), and all the classic children's books like Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild, etc. And tons of comic books too. I read a lot while growing up. If I wasn't running around, I was plunked down somewhere reading.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Definitely remember a lot of these books, damn now I feel old in my mid-20's. One that wasn't mentioned but just popped into my head is a book about a penny tree or something, I do know it had to do with pennies being planted in the ground and was heavy on the illustrations. I looked around online and can't find anything that reminded me of it, initially thought it was simply called "The Penny Tree" but that doesn't seem to be it.

Anybody new have an idea what book this is?

 

[trmiv]

Where the Wild Things Are
Dear Mr Henshaw
Shel Silverstein poem books
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
The Littles

 

[PepePeru]

Lafcadio the Lion

 

[PrinceofWands]

The Girl With the Silver Eyes
A Light in the Attic
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Wrinkle in Time
My Side of the Mountain

Most of the classic adventures (Three Muskateers, 20,000 Leagues, etc).

 

[KMFJD]

Suske & Wiske , TinTin

 

[eplebnista]

Mad Scientists Club

 

[SaltBoy]

Didn't anybody read The Great Brain series?

Those + all Roald Dahl Books were awesome.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Rascal by Sterling North.