TheApple

My favorite book in elementary school was "Socks for Supper" (Jack Kent, 1978). I then got into a non-reading phase until my first year in high school when I read J.R.R. Tolkien's "Hobit" and "Trilogy." Now I can't hardly stand to be w/o a book, and I have over 500 children's books in my home library.

I also read The Berenstein Bears. When I was a little older, I loved The Great Gilly Hopkins and Shel Silverstein poem books.

I like the Berenstein Bears, when I was young, too. I also had books called "The Thingamajigs" that I thought were hysterical when I was little. I got older and Judy Blume became my favorite, then the Nancy Drew and Hardy boy series took over. I miss having mandatory reading time every day!

I was a big fan of the C. S. Lewis Narnia series. I read them over and over. I also loved anything by Marguerite Henry who wrote horse stories based on actual animals. I still dream of riding a burrow down Bright Angel Trail since reading Brighy of the Grand Canyon and visiting Chincoteague Island to visit the home of Misty and see the wild horses. My all time favorite as a child was "Where the Red Fern Grows." My fourth grade teacher read it aloud and by the end the entire class, including her, was crying. It is a book I still pick up and my final pages are stained with tears. It gets me everytime like the first.

i enjoyed the Henry huggins books by Beverly Cleary. As I got older I enjoyed books about boys on the frontier by Willam O. Steele and Civil War stories such as Rifles for Watie.

I was always so entraced by the other-worldliness of the Roald Dahl books. That man could really write.

I think, "The Giraffe, the Pelly, and Me" was my favorite. Did anyone ever read this one? It was hysterical.

I too was a Christopher Pike fan! I also loved Judy Blum, Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl; I loved Little Women - the list could go on forever!

If it was in print I read it. I am a bookaholic. I read all the childrens books I could get my hands on, but my favorites were The Little house on the Prairie series, the E. B. White books, Little Women (Joe was my favorite character), Nancy Drew, The box car children, Sweet Valley High series, Babysitter Club, Beverly Cleary books, and The Secret Garden. Now I am reading childrens lit.- Artemis Foul, Limmony Snicket, Harry Potter, etc.

I loved the Secret Garden, that one was my ultimate favorite. After that it was a lot of Judy Blume and the Sweet Valley High series. I have never outgrown some of the teen books. I loved Eragon, The Thief Lord, all the Harry Potter books, and there are so many more. I am more of a fantasy/sci-fi book lover.
OH...and of course, Where The Wild Things Are...who didn't love that one?!

I loved reading Judy Blume, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and the Nancy Drew series. I also loved the Cudoroy series. As a preschool teacher, I've been exposed to great books as well! I love The Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and other books.

I was a big poetry fan when I was a child. A.A. Milne, e.e.cummings (maybe I was just into initials), Casey At the Bat, Ogden Nash, Frost, Longfellow. I also loved mysteries like the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown and the like.

Later on, in middle school, I think I was the only boy who did not read the Tolkien books. By then I was mainly into post-war Japanese novels. I've always been a little different, I guess.

I was a big fan of the poems in "Where the Sidewalk Ends" they were great when I was a kid and are still great to this day

I also remeber reading The Giving Tree all the time when I was little it was one of my favorite books!