Book Club GTKY

[Unknown]

What were your favorite book(s) from your childhood?

[Unknown]

Aside from being really obsessed w/ The Berenstain Bears as a really young kid, I loved the Boxcar Children and Little Women (oh, I should do a reread soon).

[rocksforludo]

I love talking about this because it always brings up books I forgot about!

Betsy-Tacy series, Anne of Green Gable series and Jane of Lantern Hill, Little House series, Ramona series and Ellen Tebbitts, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

And of course, The Babysitter Club!

[allie1079]

Yes, Babysitters Club! I also really liked the Goosebumps books and Nancy Drew.

[kateisoptimistic]

I was obsessed with all things Roald Dahl

Also the Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High/Twins

[threetaboos]

My all time favorite book was the Giving Tree. I remember reading it over and over until I could read all of it by myself with no mistakes.

Some of my favorite books when I was a little older were the Tamora Pierce books. Harry Potter was another series I started young. I also read a lot of manga.

[TheEleventhHour]

The books I remember really sparking my love to read were the American Girls series. I first started reading them because my parents told me I couldn't have the Molly doll until I read all of the books in her series. I loved them and ended up reading all of the girls' series through Josefina. I don't know who came after her but I think I was too old at that point.

I was also obsessed with Babysitters Club and Goosebumps. Oh and Harry Potter. I really should do a re-read of those! I am sure there is so many I am forgetting too.

[Deleted]

Hey, been lurking. Thought I would finally chime in. My first name is actually Anne, so needless to say Anne of Green Gables is my all time favorite childhood series. I also enjoyed the Boxcar Children.

[aylafsu1881]

The Saddle club and the Babysitting club. I saved most of them and have them to give to LO. I hope she likes to read.

[dmlk413]

Babysitter's Club, Fear Street, Little House books, the Chronicles of Narnia, Sweet Valley books, The Witches (by Roald Dahl), Nancy Drew...I think I could go on for days. I read everything I could get my hands on when I was a kid.

Harry Potter didn't come out until I was in high school and I didn't read them until college so they weren't part of childhood.

[aylafsu1881]

TheEleventhHour I read the American Girl series as well. I loved the one about Felicity and still have it.

[TheEleventhHour]

Feb 2, 2015 11:33:22 GMT -5 aylafsu1881 said:

TheEleventhHour I read the American Girl series as well. I loved the one about Felicity and still have it.

Felicity was my favorite! I still have all of the books packed away!

[joi922]

Like many PPs, I loved the Little House series and everything Roald Dahl or Shel Silverstein. I also really liked Little Women, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and The Westing Game.

[somethingcleverer]

Anne of Green Gables, The Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley High. I also loved the Wrinkle in Time Books. Now I kind of want to go back and reread those it's been so long.

[elsiemae]

I love the American Girl series. The library at my elementary school had tons of them!
I also loved Little House on the Prairie and Goosebumps.

[peanutmuse]

Nancy Drew -- but I had to read them in order. I would borrow 6 at a time and read them all in 2 weeks.
Bridge to Terabithia
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

As a pre-teen, I was obsessed with V.C. Andrews.

[Chrisse]

Babysitters club, SVH/U, loved the Little House series...god, there was a fantasy series I loved and can't think of the name...the main character was Taran, I believe...based in Prydain? Maybe? I must go Google....


ETA The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. The Book of Three was the first book. Now I have to see if they are available for the Nook!

[Chrisse]

Feb 2, 2015 11:41:59 GMT -5 joi922 said:

Like many PPs, I loved the Little House series and everything Roald Dahl or Shel Silverstein. I also really liked Little Women, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and The Westing Game.

Ahh, I loved The Westing Game!

[tribute17]

The Babysitter's club for sure. A Wrinkle in Time, Nancy Drew and I loved the Christopher Pike books but that was more preteen. I also went through a phase where I read all of Lurlene McDaniel's books. They were all about cancer in some way and I think my mom got pretty worried about me because she started reading them too and making sure I wasn't too depressed. I just thought they were interesting.

And it also makes me feel old that some of you are listing Harry Potter from when you were kids.

[Chrisse]

tribute17 I probably read the Angels Watching Over Me trilogy a thousand times.

It was right up there with the original three Vampire Diaries, which I reread on a weekly basis.

[owlishbookish]

First and foremost was The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, as well as one of his stand-alones, Time Cat. Then there was The Babysitters Club, my mom's old Trixie Belden mysteries, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, and Goosebumps by R.L. Stine.

[gahorseygal]

Definitely the Baby sitters club. But my absolute favorites were the saddle club and the Thoroughbred series.

[somethingcleverer]

I was also a huge Judy Blume fan, how could I almost forget that? Are You There God It's Me Margaret was a favorite.

[kateisoptimistic]

Feb 2, 2015 13:36:12 GMT -5 somethingcleverer said:

I was also a huge Judy Blume fan, how could I almost forget that? Are You There God It's Me Margaret was a favorite.

omg i forgot about JB, loved all of her books

[klongoria11]

Little House on the Prairie series, Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing and the subsequent Fudge books by Judy Blume, pretty much anything I could get my hands on!

[numbbears]

Animorphs. I related to one of the characters (same name and hobbies) when I was younger so I really connected with the series. I still have the entire series and want to pass it down to DS when he can read it.

Goosebumps and Sweet Valley High were favorites also. And Christopher Pike.

And Charmed Life.

[joi922]

tribute17 I forgot about Christopher Pike! I read those all the time in my teens - so much better than the Goose Bumps books.

And Harry Potter came out when I was in college, so while I love the series it definitely isn't from my childhood

[peanutmuse]

Oh, I forgot about the Chronicles of Narnia. Definitely!

I also had this series that I read called The Sleepover Friends. It was like an attempt to be like The Babysitter's Club. I never wanted to be the same as everyone else, so I looked at the BSC with disdain. (Snotty little know-it-all that I was.)

[setsuna17]

Feb 2, 2015 12:54:05 GMT -5 tribute17 said:

The Babysitter's club for sure. A Wrinkle in Time, Nancy Drew and I loved the Christopher Pike books but that was more preteen. I also went through a phase where I read all of Lurlene McDaniel's books. They were all about cancer in some way and I think my mom got pretty worried about me because she started reading them too and making sure I wasn't too depressed. I just thought they were interesting.

And it also makes me feel old that some of you are listing Harry Potter from when you were kids.

Ahaha, I read the Lurlene McDaniels books for awhile until they started giving me anxiety. I actually think she is crying out for help because all her books are so damn sad.

[setsuna17]

Loved the Babysitter's Club and the Wrinkle in Time books. I also loved the Phantom Tollbooth, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Tuck Everlasting.

I still love kids books though, so as an adult I enjoyed Harry Potter, the books of Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and the Mysterious Benedict Society.