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librarylover
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Post#11-Books You Loved as a Child

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:07 pm
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Baby Island by Carol Rykie (spelling may be off)

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:42 am
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The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:17 pm
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The 'Tom Corbett: Space Cadet' books were great, probably my earliest introduction to SF, followed by Asimov's Robot stories...didn't understand some of it as a kid, but I loved the stories...

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:05 pm
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I didn't get into SF until I was a senior in high school, but I did read a lot of other books before that. I was able to convince my parents to subscribe to several different book clubs over the years, and I still remember quite a few of them. One set was primarily abridged versions of classics like the King Arthur stories, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, etc., most of which I eventually read the full versions. Another set contained mainly juvenile novels set in various places around the world, and a few that I remember (titles only, have no idea of the authors) are In Old Quebec, about a girl lost in that city, The Gift of the Mikado (can only recall the title but not the plot), and Follow My Leader, about a boy who is blinded in an accident and must learn to cope with his situation and adapt to using a guide dog.

I also read a lot from school libraries, mainly histories, biographies, or fictionalized historical stories like Johnny Tremaine, and I fondly recall one about Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox of Revolutionary War fame. I was fascinated by early Americana, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War, and historical figures such as Lincoln, Franklin, Jefferson, etc. And of course there were The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, Danny Dunn and on and on. Actually if it was a book, I was interested, which I can't say for many of my friends or family. I could also spend hours looking through encyclopedias. We had both the World Book and Britannica at home, as well as other reference books.
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:50 pm
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I think the Pippi Longstockings books are the only ones of my childhood favourites which have been translated into English.
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:48 pm
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Nancy Drew mysteries...and Little Women
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:24 pm
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The Village That Slept by Monique ??

I would recommend it to adults, too.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:05 pm
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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron and its sequels, sparking the sense of wonder in children.

And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss. This one is actually a lot more mature than his later stuff, which was aimed at the pre-school crowd. Also good were The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins and Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

I liked the Tom Corbett books, but my favorite juvenile series was the Dig Allen, Space Explorer series by Joseph Greene. Anybody else remember them?

Everybody talks about the Heinlein juveniles, but , as a boy, I much preferred the Lucky Star books by Isaac Asimov.

There were a lot more, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:24 am
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Let me give an honourable mention to the Three Investigator books, especially the ones written by Robert Arthur.

Thanks for the Mushroom Planet reminders, pecooper, I'd clean forgotten them.

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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:59 am
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Merry, Rose, and Christmas-Tree June by Doris Ortel

This was my first "read a big book all by myself." It has 78 pages!
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PostFavorite book as a child

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:45 pm
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The Velveteen Rabbit, although I think it was a short story.
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:21 pm
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Amelia Bedelia (it first came out when I was in 3rd grade)
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:30 am
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The books of Rosemary Sutcliffe and Henry Treece as well as the Hobbit and Narnia of course.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:22 pm
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I don't recall really. Dr. Seuss, I'm sure, and other books like that: Ten Apples Up on Top, A Fish Out of Water, Look Out for Pirates!, Put Me In the Zoo, and Stop That Ball!.

Wizard of Oz series.

The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:32 pm
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Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time, Dracula, the Narnia series, the King Arthur stories, Treasure island, Christmas Carol, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Johnny Tremaine, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. There's more, just can't think of them now.
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:04 am
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I was a great proponent of the Ramona books when I was in second to fourth grades. Then I got into the Baby-Sitters Club and other Ann M. Martin books. Of course, the Little House and Anne of Green Gables books got my kudos. I also liked to read books about hauntings and strange encounters.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:41 am
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The Tom Corbett books have already been mentioned (I bought them for $1.25 each at the "Perry's" department store with my paper route money, but the first one was a gift from my parents).

However, Heinlein's "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" was the first real Sci-Fi that I ever read. I've probably re-read it 50 times since then, including within the last year. I still have the original copy which I bought (of all places) at Baptist Book Store in Lubbock, Texas. My original copy is starting to come apart just a little, but still has the jacket that came with it, covered by a textbook cover that I meticulously put over it in about the fifth grade.
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