What was your favorite book(s)/Author..if you know...to read as a kid?

The All of a Kind Family was a series of children's books by Sydney Taylor. It was about 5 Jewish sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of NYC at the turn of last century. My mother read this to me till her voice wore out. She also read comic books to me, Little Lulu being my all time favorite. I have a major collection of these, by Marjorie Henderson Buell "Marge" Have a collection of original Nancy Drews by the series of authors all named Carolyn Keene.

In third grade I read my older sister's book Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes and loved that too. It's about a teenage boy during the American Revolution. Disney came out with his movie the same year and I was very excited to see what I had read.
 
We went to the library in Charleston WV once a month. It was like a fairyland, the library was housed in the old capital building with a domed ceiling, the children's library was on the second floor where you could look down from the landing and up at the dome till you were dizzy. There was a marvelous huge doll house all fitted out with handmade Victorian furniture. I could have looked at it all day. Our mother would sometimes drop us off there for hours and we never got bored.

I read hundreds of books from that library and the only one I can remember is Pippi Longstocking.
 
I never owned a book as child, none were ever bought or given to me, but I was an avid reader, so I used the school and the public library often...I actually would read pretty much anything I could get my hands on... One favourite that I remember all these years on was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm... by Douglas Wiggin

Enid Blyton was a great favourite too....
 
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Very little, 3-4-5, it was Childcraft books and "the Lillle Engine that could", any stories about cute little ducks, Cinderella, Snow White, "The Little Match Girl".
I was absolutely fascinated by Margaret Ely Webb, the artist for children's books in the 1930's! I used to study her designs and thought her GENIUS! (She illustrated in the Childcraft books)
 
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

It makes me sad that Mrs. Wilder has been branded a racist over her depictions of Native Americans on the western frontier.

IMO she was simply a product of her time like so many of the other wonderful people that helped to shape my life.

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I just have to spill the beans///when I was a teenager....my father often had to go out of town and my mother taught school.so I was often alone..this one day I happened to spy these books that had been put on a high shelf..of course I was curious and with the help of a chair got the books in question...twas..."Lady Chatterlley's Lover" by D.H.Lawrence something told me I should not be reading it...but...well..curiosity won over...I made sure to put it back in its place...it took me a couple of months to read it...I do not believe they ever suspected....
 
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I just have to spill the beans///when I was a teenager....my father often had to go out of town and my mother taught school.so I was often alone..this one day I happened to spy these books that had been put on a high shelf..of course I was curious and with the help of a chair got the books in question...twas..."Lady Chatterlley's Lover" by D.H.Lawrence something told me I should not be reading it...but...well..curiosity won over...I made sure to put it back in its place...it took me a couple of months to read it...I do not believe they ever suspected....
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That's so funny Snow! And familiar as in the seventh grade I took that book out of the Public Library and I know my mother saw the book. My classmate suggested I read it. It only took me 2-3 weeks to read it, as I didn't renew it.
 
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