What childrens' books do you still enjoy?

[Archae]

Some of the childrens' books I grew up with, were pretty bad, for one reason or another.

Peter Pan was awful, when it came to racism.
So was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original version. The Oompa Loompas were African pygmies.

One book I recommend, is "Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh," that book was made into the movie "The Secret Of Nimh."

No magic in the book, the rats move her house normally.

Another is "The Last Unicorn."

[Phoenix61]

1. All the original Hana Christian Anderson stories. nt

[Archae]

2. Agreed, those are some good ones.

[Croney]

3. I've got a set of Nancy Drews I don't want to get rid of.

Once in a while I'll skim through one. Such quaint settings and far-fetched plots and outdated gender roles.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I was obsessed with Nancy Drew books when I was a girl.

Of course, I was very young and not a very critical reader at the time, but they captivated my imagination.

[wcmagumba]

4. Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time" is one of my favorites...

60s old white guy here...I have a copy on my shelf..

[3catwoman3]

10. Mine, too.

I have re-read it more times than I can count.

[The Polack MSgt]

5. Watership Down and My Side of the Mountain both hold good spots in my memory nt.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Charlotte's Web.

[sheshe2]

9. You beat me to it!!!!

[smirkymonkey]

24. Another favorite of mine.

I also really loved "James and the Giant Peach". I completely lost myself in that story and imagined myself there.

Another favorite was "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn", however I think that might have been more of a young adolescent novel. But it was one of my all-time favorite books of childhood - before high-school. I read it over and over into adulthood.

I haven't read it in years, but I think I might want to read it again. I was so drawn into it that I almost didn't want to leave that world. I think that is why I am so attracted to old films, music and books even to this day.

[sheshe2]

7. Charlotte's Web

Mrs Piggle-Wiggle.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. I still love, and sometimes discover more of, Dr. Seuss's works.

[3catwoman3]

11. Rabbit Hill, and the...

...sequel, The Tough Winter.

[applegrove]

12. I was reminded of a book my grandparents had in their toy box.

I loved it as a kid and i loved rereading it online. Sweet story: Amelia Bedelia.i I have not read the others in the series. I love the ending of the first book. And the illustrations. Found the same thing with Go Dog Go! I used to pick that book out to read in nursery school every time when i was 4. I loved the pictures and the party hats and the parties in the canopy of trees. My sister's kids had it and i was thrilled to reread it one more time. I usually don't read books more than once as an adult. What trips down memory lane.

Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. It was written by Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, and was published by Harper and Row in 1963. Wikipedia

Originally published: 1963

Illustrator: Fritz Siebel

No. of books: 41 (List of books)

[MontanaMama]

13. Winnie the Pooh.

They’re so funny...and so comforting.

[OriginalGeek]

32. I loved Pooh so much as a child that

I even liked the movie a couple years ago. (I'm in my 50s now)

[MLAA]

14. Anyone read Wind in the Willows?

Saw a quote from it recently and thought, I need to read that 🙂

[we can do it]

33. Yes. A good one.

[MLAA]

37. Thanks, just got it on kindle 🙂

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Chronicles of Narnia. 101 Dalmatians.

[Karadeniz]

16. The Velveteen Rabbit... At the end, the part about being real is so touching!

[MissMillie]

30. My favorite... without a doubt (n/t)

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[2naSalit]

17. Almost anything Dr. Seuss...

But Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

[NBachers]

18. The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton; Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton with pictures by

Tibor Gergely

Make Way for Ducklings and Lentil by Robert McCloskey

Little Boy with a Big Horn by Jack Bechdolt

Anything by Holling - Clancy - Holling: Seabird, Minn of the Mississippi, Paddle to the Sea, Tree in the Trail

[evemac]

19. Little House on the Prairie/Laura Ingalls books

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. If You Give A Pig The White House.

Cover and samples...

[Bmoboy]

21. 2 come to mind

Blueberries for Sal

Pat the Bunny

[First Speaker]

22. Dr Doolittle, Heinlein's "juveniles"...

...Onion John, The Wheel on the School, and--drum roll, please--*The Oz books*!!! The ones the librarians of my childhood made such an effort to keep us from reading...

[Archae]

25. Ah, the Oz books...

They could be peculiar at times, like when the Tin Man had an argument with his own human head. (!)

[Brother Buzz]

26. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

AND

The Story of Ferdinand


I still have my childhood copies (NOT fist editions)

[trueblue2007]

27. HARRY POTTER

[we can do it]

34. Yes!

[sakabatou]

35. Ditto

[UTUSN]

28. Books?

[electric_blue68]

29. Definitely Dr. Suess. Wrinkle in Time. I read later (as an adult)

while more YA... some of Diane Duane's ("So You Want To Be a) Wizard(s) Series.

And younger than the ones mentioned "Harrold and The Purple Crayon".

[demmiblue]

31. "Misty of Chincoteague" and "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" are the first

two that popped up in my head.

[Lars39]

36. The Little, and the Indian in the Cupboard

[mopinko]

38. where the wild things are.

anything sendak.

[Harker]

39. "Make Way for Ducklings"...

"The Story of Ferdinand."

I think they contributed early to my lifelong caring for other animals and my forty years of veganism.

"Are You My Mother?" was another favorite. I'm about to become as old as my mother ever got. Her reading to me set me up for my spending practically my entire working life in bookshops.

[targetpractice]

40. Richard Scarry

Lowly the Worm was and is my hero.

[Niagara]

41. I still read the following.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.


The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.


The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.


Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.


There's a short story called Another Part of the House that's not exactly for children, but told through a child's eyes.


I'm still guilty of reading Judy Blume books when I get the chance.

[haele]

42. Lloyd Alexander's quintology of Taran Wanderer.

All of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books. Almost anything from Andre Norton. John Bellaires Lewis Barnarvart series. Susan Cooper's lateral telling of the Arthurian legends. JRR Tolkien, Frank L Baum, A.A Milne
Pippi Longstocking.
Classics from Mark Twain, Robert Farley , RL Stevenson, Louisa Mae Alcott (did you know she also wrote mid-Victorian pornography for female readers?), and Jules Verne.
I liked science fiction, historically based fantasy that had a touch of darkness or growth to it, and horses.
I always took a book with me wherever I went.

Haele

[Stuart G]

43. Actually a movie..."The Secret of NIMH"

[Archae]

44. I mentioned this in my OP...

The movie is based on the book "Mrs Frisby and The Rats Of Nimh."

It's a good book!

[Stuart G]

45. SORRY.... Here is another movie...."Land Before Time" another favorite movie..(yes..it probably

isn't a book..but maybe).???

[Archae]

46. No, the original idea came from Bluth studios directly.

Did you know there are 14 of those movies?

[Wolf Frankula]

47. The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright.

The works of Dr. Suess.

Wolf