your childhood books

[Hamish Durie]

rember when books had pictures and could have 1 word on each page well i just cleaned the attic and found a whole bunch of old childrens book my mum read to mw when i was at knee height

so escapists what are your childhood books?

oh how i missed you clifford the big red dog and that french book where everyone was a elephant

 

[Grotch Willis]

when i was a child, my aunt gave me one of my cousin's copies of indian and the cupboard to read, little did she know and I soon after found out that they had done some clever rewrites with pen by adding certain swear words and changing some of the names.

 

[eggmiester]

surprisingly: roald dahl. charlie and the chocolate factory, James's giant peach, the witches, matilda- the best books a child could read.So full of imagination and his language- fantastic.roald dahl is still my favorite author of all time.

 

[Queen Michael]

oh how i missed you clifford the big red dog and that french book where everyone was a elephant

I never read Clifford, and to smurf from his cartoon series, I wouldn't have smurfed him anyway. I never was a big fan of dogs. But I did smurf the French book where everyone was an elephant. Assuming you're smurfing about Babar.

I also read a lot of comic smurfs about the smurfs. Wonderful little blue fellows. The comics were so much smurfier than the admittedly okay cartoons.

surprisingly: roald dahl. charlie and the chocolate factory, James's giant peach, the witches, matilda- the best books a child could read.So full of imagination and his language- fantastic.roald dahl is still my favorite author of all time.

Not my favorite, but definitely among the top ten writers on my smurf of the 100 best writers I know.

 

[The Serpent]

I'm one of those people who was raised on Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Artemis Fowl and Holes.

No wonder I became a nerd.

 

[El Poncho]

Horrible History and Artemis Fowl are the books I read, now Artemis Fowl has started to bore me though.

 

[Verp]

Dinosaur books. I loved them dinosaurs. I still do.

 

[k-ossuburb]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where The Wild Things Are.

I must've read both of those at least a hundred times when I was a kid.

 

[Jim Grim]

How young a child? When I was about 9-11 my favourite book was The 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear. It's still awesome.

 

[Jonny1188]

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and Squids Will Be Squids. Even as a kid, I liked things that were different than the norm.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I remember being obsessed with vehicles as a kid, so I had loads of books on cars, trains (especially trains) and aircraft.

That and Alice in Wonderland... reading that as a seven year old dimwit can be a real headfuck.

 

[J-dog42]

Secret Seven, Famous Five, Biggles, The Hardy Boys and Animorphs at one stage, just to name a few. I read a lot of books.

 

[Phishfood]

surprisingly: roald dahl. charlie and the chocolate factory, James's giant peach, the witches, matilda- the best books a child could read.So full of imagination and his language- fantastic.roald dahl is still my favorite author of all time.

These and Enid Blyton.

Then on to Hardy Boys.

Gotta love the His Dark Materiels Trilogy.

I'm on the fence about calling my starwars collection "childhood" or not. I started towards the end, carried on some but I don't really read them these days.

 

[LongAndShort]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where The Wild Things Are.

I must've read both of those at least a hundred times when I was a kid.

He was a VERY hungry caterpillar, but he had his reasons, as I recall.

I had a David and Goliath picture book when I was three/four, that I loved. I believe that part of it was that being two feet high, the thought of the little guy knocking down a giant appealed to me even at this young age. Another part of it would probably be that my dad would then march up the hallway chanting "Goliath! STOMP! STOMP!" until I 'knocked' him down.
And now I've shared some of my most cherished childhood memories with you guys.

Anyway, Doctor Seuss was always awesome (must of read Green Eggs and Ham fifty times), I had a book about a stuffed bear that accidentally traveled the whole world that was awesome, and a couple of Where's Waldo and Where's Walso-Esque books that I spent hours mastering.

Got older, Tolkien, some books that we had to read for school (varying quality) and Horrible Histories.

And that's my childhood reading.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I think I've read almost every Horrible Histories out there. I also worked my way through a lot of Horrible Science titles. What else..? I loved The Hobbit, Animorphs, Roald Dahl, Philip Ardagh, a few Hungarian books that I won't bother listing, Brian Jacques, Tintin and Asterix, Calvin & Hobbes..

I'm extremely grateful to my parents for the fact that they refused to allow a television into the household until I was about 13.

 

[lobster1077]

Not my favorite, but definitely among the top ten writers on my smurf of the 100 best writers I know.[/quote]

Your smurf? Is that a deviously esoteric term for list?

 

[Zoe Castillo]

the moomins and the hobbit.
I?ve re-read the hobbit recently and it still holds up

 

[Scarim Coral]

One of my childhood memories is reading Roald Dahl "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me" and I used to read a lot of Goosebumps books. My primary teacher had read a lot of books (I forgotten most of the book titles) like the "The lion, the witch and the wardrobe". Also I read alot of book on Dinosaur and animals.

 

[Uber Evil]

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and Squids Will Be Squids. Even as a kid, I liked things that were different than the norm.

So were you a book hipster before being a hipster was cool?