1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - I read this over and over and I reread it a few years ago and enjoyed it just as much. The odd thing is that I've never read anything else by Burnett. I picked up A Little Princess and just never was able to get into it.
2. The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright - I don't know how I got my copy of this book or how I missed picking up any other Enright books but I adored this one and read it until my copy just about fell apart. As an adult I've tracked down the rest of her books and I love them all.
3. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - I resisted reading this series but then I saw the movie with Megan Follows and read the whole series in a weekend. I still reread it periodically.
4. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott - I have very strong emotions (mostly negative) about Little Women but I loved Eight Cousins and reread it countless times. I did get a copy of the sequel which I should reread. I read it at around 11 or 12 and didn't like it because of what happened to dashing Charlie.
5. Belles on Their Toes by Frank B Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - I loved Cheaper by the Dozen but the one I reread over and over was the sequel. I loved seeing the dozen as teenagers and young adults.
6. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene - I loved all the Nancy Drew books - the original series, the remakes, the off shoots - just all of them.
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - I reread this a few years ago and was really surprised by how much I liked it as a kid because it is so different from everything else I enjoyed then or really now. However, it is a wonderful story and now I want to read the rest of the series - which to be honest I didn't know existed until a few years ago!
8. Mystery Behind the Wall by Gertrude Chandler Warner - I loved the whole Boxcar Children series but this one about a scavenger hunt left by the last resident of the house was my very favorite.
9. The Ghost at Dawn's House by Ann M. Martin - I loved all of the Babysitter's Club books but this one was my favorite. It had ghosts, mysteries,and secret passages so how could I not?
10. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - This was the only book from the Chronicles of Narnia that I read as a kid. Unlike a few other books I actually had the whole series but mine was sorted in order printed so this one was followed by Prince Caspian which I never could quite get through.
What were some of your childhood favorites?
I loved Anne of Green Gables too! Happy Tuesday and Hugs, RO
ReplyDeleteThe only one I've read is the Narnia one. I used to own the whole series too but never read the rest of them!
ReplyDeleteThe Nancy Drew books are the best. I used to love to scroll through the different titles (because the titles were awesome) and same with the Hardy Boys- the covers and titles of both series were so cool!
ReplyDeleteI have the Anne and the Emily Moon series but I read them when I was probably in middle school. I have these two books of fairy tales that my mom had and I faintly recall reading them a lot. I would say Ramona Quimby was my childhood reading though.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing readers' childhood books. i never even heard of Eight Cousins - now how is that! Possibly because my reading was limited as there was no library where and when I grew up.
ReplyDeleteWe really do have a lot of these in common! The only ones I never read were the Boxcar Children books and the Babysitters Club books; the former I never encountered as a child and the latter came along too late for me; I was just out of college when the first one was published. I saw their popularity, though, because I worked in bookstores for about 6 years after college -- right when they exploded onto the MG reading scene.
ReplyDeleteI still need to read Eight Cousins, and Belles on Their Toes. I bought them both for my Kindle ages ago.
ReplyDeleteI did a big project on the C.S. Lewis series when I was in 5th grade! LOVE those books! I need to reread them soon!
ReplyDeleteI was, and remain, a huge fan of Little Women and Louisa May Alcott and also love Little Men and Eight Cousins. I hardly ever run across anyone else who also loved Eight Cousins!
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