Which books from your childhood have you never forgotten ?

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A Child's Garden of Verses (I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me...) :)
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Little Colonel
and so many more! I still have some of them.

Almost forgot! "Somebody Else's Shoes" that was on a shelf in my 4th grade class. We were allowed to choose a book to read when our work was finished. I probably read every one of them at one time or another during the school year, but that one stuck with me.
 
All-of-a-Kind Family, which was read to me, and Johnny Tremain, which I read by myself about three years after.

My mother would read to me till her voice cracked, literally, while my big sister was in school. Johnny Tremain was on her class requirements.

The Public Library, around the corner, was always an important place in our lives.
 
Georgiagranny said:
A Child's Garden of Verses (I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me...) :)
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Little Colonel
and so many more! I still have some of them.

Almost forgot! "Somebody Else's Shoes" that was on a shelf in my 4th grade class. We were allowed to choose a book to read when our work was finished. I probably read every one of them at one time or another during the school year, but that one stuck with me.
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What i put in bold would top my list too. My Dad bought me a copy at 2nd hand book store when i learned to read at 4. Fueled my life long love of poetry. The cover was one of those where an illustration was embossed on the cover. It was destroyed in the house fire when i was 8, but decades later i found a similar copy (tho cover had some damage) at an estate sale and couldn't resist getting it for my self.
 
We came to America when I was four and I learned the language fast, partly because I read so many books.
Several of my favorites were from these classic authors -

Bronte sisters - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma
Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 
With all of the classics already listed, I am almost embarrassed to mention my humble little tome but it was a Little Golden Book titled "Sailor Dog". It was written by Margaret Wise Brown (who also wrote "Goodnight Moon") and illustrated by Garth Williams. It's about a little dog named Scuppers who was born at sea and then lived on a farm, all the time dreaming about returning to sea. When he finally makes it back to the briny, he has adventures such as being shipwrecked and living on a tiny island.

Like all Little Golden Books it was short and well illustrated. I read it over and over in my preschool years.7cb030cfbf6c33384f903ae2c4dc46af-730897980 - Copy.jpg
 
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"Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana Jr. It's about a two year sea voyage in 1834. I never read the lousy thing, It was assigned for summer reading every year, and throughout the school year we were supposed to read it. It dogged me all through school. It's one of those books where the sentences are three pages long. I can remember the first page. There was a drawing of sailing ship, and beneath about 15 lines of type. I could never get through that first page. The first page was boring as hell, and no way was I going to read through TWO YEARS of that. I can't tell you how many times I read that first page.
If any of you have a copy of it, pick it up and burn it.
 
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