Which books from your childhood have you never forgotten ?

wcwbf said:
when i was in maybe 3-4th grade ha a teacher who wold rea to us. we'd come back inside after lunch and recess, and she would turn the lights off, we would lay our leads down on our desks and she would read a chpter or so from a book. that was my first exxperience with Laura Ingalls Wilder... Little House on the Prairie series. i wanted to live that way!

then there were The Box Car Children books. never wanted to run away, but loved the idea of how they lived.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder is just the best! I loved her books too and so did my kids growing up.

She relates a universal life message with a uniquely American voice šŸ˜Š
 

Which childhood book will I never forget?
"Two Years Before The Mast", by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. It was written in 1840. Not that I read it, but because for most of my school life, that book was assigned for summer reading. Well, ol' Dana never met a sentence where he couldn't add 250 words, and 12 clauses. It was one of those books where once sentence had to be printed on two pages. Every year, I was supposed to read this thing and I could never get more that 3 pages. It was always #1 on the summer reading list. That book dogged me for about 8 years.
 
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The very first book that I remember loving was a Little Golden Book called ā€œThe Pokey Little Puppyā€, and my mom read it to me so many times that I knew each page by heart, and she didnā€™t even have to read it anymore.
As i grew older, I fell in love with horses, and one of the grade school teachers read to us every day from Walter Farleyā€™s Black Stallion series. I checked them out from the library and read every book that he wrote about the Black Stallion, the Island Stallion, and it seems like there was also another one as well.

Later, I read Jane Eyre, and some of my momā€™s old books like The Harvester, Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and several others that were popular in the early 1900ā€™s.
I loved used books from the thrift stores, as well as library books, and was always reading something. I later found The Sheik and Sone of the Sheik, by EM Hull, which also had ArabIan horses , and was where the movies of the same names came from, with Rudolph Valentino.
 
I spent hours in the public library as a child. I loved to read then and still do. I know I have read all the Nancy Drew books. I was fascinated with pioneer times and one of my favorites was A Lantern In Her Hand. I still have a paperback edition of that book. Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Winnie the Pooh, Diary of Anne Frank were also favorites.
 
'David Starr, Space Ranger' by Isaac Asimov.

My first Space book and the Mercury Seven had my full attention.
Switched from wanting to be a Cowboy to Astronaut.
 
I have never been an avid reader.
I don't know at what age books go from something everyone has read, like Dr Seuss, to something more substantial like Mark Twain.

I read Ian Fleming James Bond books as a young teen. They were already in the house. Someone told me, and it was not true, that James Bond dies at the end of each book.

So that got me curious. I read the last page of all the novels we had in the house. Only in From Russia With Love does the last page describe how Rosa Klebb, with a poisoned blade sticking out of her right shoe, kick Bond in the calf and he crashes onto the floor.

Read the next book, Dr No, to find out what happened to Bond.
 
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The story hits hard because it mirrors a reality we still see today. Children sleeping hungry. Families struggling to keep the heat on. People ignored by society, left to fight battles alone. Andersen wasnā€™t just telling a fairy taleā€”he was holding up a mirror.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
The very first book that I remember loving was a Little Golden Book called ā€œThe Pokey Little Puppyā€, and my mom read it to me so many times that I knew each page by heart, and she didnā€™t even have to read it anymore.
As i grew older, I fell in love with horses, and one of the grade school teachers read to us every day from Walter Farleyā€™s Black Stallion series. I checked them out from the library and read every book that he wrote about the Black Stallion, the Island Stallion, and it seems like there was also another one as well.

Later, I read Jane Eyre, and some of my momā€™s old books like The Harvester, Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and several others that were popular in the early 1900ā€™s.
I loved used books from the thrift stores, as well as library books, and was always reading something. I later found The Sheik and Sone of the Sheik, by EM Hull, which also had ArabIan horses , and was where the movies of the same names came from, with Rudolph Valentino.
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I feel like if we used the same library when young we would have seen each others name on the check out card
 
fuzzybuddy said:
"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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Oh,I remember that book-well the cover of it anyway! It held no interest for me whatsoever but yes,it was required reading every darn year! Maybe I should go get a copy and try again lol...
 
Ohh, so many! In addition to the Little House books and basically everything by Beverly Cleary, two standouts were When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr (one I loved so much I tracked it down and bought it as an adult) and Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Harriett Lothrop. The latter is the first in a series, but I read only the first one. I still have my original 1973 copy.
 
I remember reading all three of the Borrowers books when I was 10, and crying as I reached the end of the third book to think they'd never be back in England again after being flown across the Irish Sea in a model glider, pulled by an owl.

About the same time, I had to read books while at school, and I read one that I thought would be incredibly boring, but which turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read. It was called "A pattern of Islands", and was written by an Englishman who'd worked for the Foreign Office and been sent to somewhere in the South Pacific. He spent several years there and the stories of his exploits were very entertaining.

There was a sequel as well, called "Return to the Islands", and it detailed how the islands developed over the years. I was fascinated by those books. They were actually aimed at adults, not children, but the junior school I went to in Bristol was a very odd school in many ways, and being given adult books to read at age 10 - 11, was just one strange thing about it.
 
As a small child, I enjoyed Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman.

The book has been the center of much controversy but I always thought that Sambo was an intelligent hero and that his mother put those vain old tigers to good use! šŸ˜‰šŸ¤­šŸ˜‚
 
I remember reading a lot of these books. Before the internet I read books continuously. I would bring home stacks
of books from the library. Some I read just because I was curious why they were popular.Never did care for the mushy ones.
Im not one to read the same book over and over so I dont keep them. Unless its some of the vintage books that I collect.
I mostly read Sci-Fi. Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, etc. Sometimes a little H.P. Lovecraft. A little Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Poe, Steven King, etc. My reading goes all over the place. :D
Now I mostly read online. Im trying to cull the hoard. :D

The book that I most remember from my childhood is The Ugly Duckling. Like most tall girls I got the usual bullying attempts.
I was having a really hard time figuring out why I wasnt accepted. After reading the book I decided I was a Swan. :D
I was never going to make a good Duck and that was okay.
 
Enid Blyton's "......of Adventure" series. Two pairs of siblings find themselves on their own and have adventures and solve people's problems.
"Castle of Adventure", "Ship of Adventure"......and more titles like that.

"Wind In the Willows" and "Toad of Toad Hall"

"The Mad Miller of Wareham"

"Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"

The Doctor Dolittle series of books.
 
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