Which books from your childhood have you never forgotten ?

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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 😊
 

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 “The Pokey Little Puppy”, and my mom read it to me so many times that I knew each page by heart, and she didn’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 Farley’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 mom’s old books like The Harvester, Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and several others that were popular in the early 1900’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.
 

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