your favorite child hood book
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Just wondering what your favorite child hood books are. I am looking for books for my 6 year old to read. He's loving the Magic Tree house series and will read those for hours on end. Can anyone think of books that are good for 7 and 8 year olds? Also it'd be good to know in general other books that you liked when you were around 12 and under. |
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When I was in sixth grade I loved me some Goosebumps, I had 15 of the books and they've magically disappeared now that I'm looking for them again. Earlier than that, I enjoyed Where the Red Fern Grows when I was in fourth grade. |
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Charlottes Web, Jacob Two-Two and the dinosaur (and hooded fang) |
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same here. it's the only book i read in school growing up that i remember really enjoying. |
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I was so pissed off when my fourth grade class watched the movie version, everything was wrong! |
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i felt that way when we watched The Diary of Anne Frank. |
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I've honestly never heard of Red Fern Grows, how old were you when you read it? |
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oooohh, 'bout 9 or 10 if my maths is right. maybe 8. |
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I remember Where the Red Fern Grows being super depressing. I actually just found (and read) a copy of From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler earlier this week - it still holds up! As for my favorite books... The Phantom Tollbooth - read this when I was 6 or 7, and again pretty much every year since. I love this story so much. The Boxcar Children - I remember liking these a lot & my parents buying them for me when we'd go on trips. Goosebumps - I think I had all 62 of the original books. The Witches and The BFG - Roald Dahl writes amazing children's book, and these were my favorites. His Dark Materials - This might be better suited for someone a little older, but the series is great (don't let the film fool you) Wayside School is Falling Down and Sideways Stories From Wayside School - Silly, sometimes weird stories told in chapter form, so far as I remember. Dealing With Dragons - I think this was one of the first fantasy books I ever read and I was completely enamored with the series. I was 9 or 10 when I read it though. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman is a great author, and he does a wonderful job with children's books. I heard him read part of this at UCLA about a month ago and it was fantastic. The Chocolate Touch - Young boy has a bad day where everything he touches turns to chocolate. Jack London wrote a lot of interesting books that were geared more towards boys, but I remember loving them. I think one of them was Hatchet (not to be confused with the B "horror" movie), and I think Call of the Wild. The Redwall series was also very engaging, though I can't remember how old I was when I started reading them. Sorry that was so long! |
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Call of the Wild was one of the first books I really remember reading. I think Hatchet is actually by Gary Paulson, but that was also a fun book. I also really enjoyed looking through the Eyewitness Books, I used to love the one on castles. |
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Totally forgot about Hatchet, that book kicked ass. |
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You're totally right, Paulson wrote Hatchet, which is apparently part of a 5 book series about the main character. |
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Goosebumps, Animorphs and wayside school were the books that I really read constantly, but I hated reading for hte most part until my junior year of high school when a teacher recommended me to read Perks of being a Wallflower when I didnt' completely hate catcher in the rye, so my opinion isn't really the best. |
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these are all great, thanks so much everyone. :) Feel free to keep them coming if anyone else sees this. |
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+1 to everything already listed in this thread The Giver by Lois Lowry is like baby's first dystopian sci-fi. This book + my Dad's love of Star Trek made me take the hard dive into serious geek-hood. I think i read this during late elementary/early middle school. My mum was also a fan of the Time series, A Wrinkle in Time being the most famous one, by Madeleine L'Engle. I know they're also for slightly older kids, but she read them to my brother and me a lot when we were little and it was awesome. The only kids books I can seem to think of were these Peaceful Warrior books by Dan Millman. There's a couple of them in that series and they've got sweet illustrations, but they're definitely tinged with some heavy handed new-agey spirituality lessons about kindness and courage. Even as a kid, I was like "come on, Millman. I know kindness begets kindness." I was still really into it because the kid gets to go through portals and stuff. If your kid is a jock(not that there's anything wrong with that), get him anything written by Matt Christopher. I remember that dude had a stronghold on my elementary school's library. The wait on The Kid Who Only Hits Homers and Stealing Home were outrageous! Don't worry, he wrote books about hockey too, but I never read them because I could never totally understand how hockey works. Those Eyewitness books were also my jam during library time. I thought I'd be sly and pick a book with a ton of pictures so I could just look at cool pictures, but they ended up having such cool pictures that I'd read all the captions and actual text. They cover like every generic topic too. My favorites were ancient egypt, space, and cats. Dog was also good. I'd also like to talk a little bit about this book. I'm not necessarily recommending it as it was an adult book and I forced my parents into helping me read it multiple times, but I definitely read this as a kid and loved it:  It was basically the most perfect thing ever crafted for me as a person. I remember finding this book like it was just yesterday. My mum was getting her hair done at a salon and my dad took me with him to look around the mall. He popped into a waldenbooks and I wandered off into the sci-fi section. God practically guided me to this book. It was right there at my eye level. It was sticking out slightly in comparison to the other books. Just look at that cover! It's got the properly beared Riker. Storm is making lighting. Wolverine. Worf and a bat'leth. Awesome holodeck conversation with Picard and Xavier happens. This book is magic. |
