Your favorite childhood book series or book?

[Georgia Avenue]

[asofel]

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Encyclopedia Brown, and when I was younger yet, The Bernstein Bears

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nice, same here. now if only i could also figure out how to take these beginnings and turn them into poker hawtness...

[Blarg]

For real little kid stuff, I was crazy for Seuss, but my favorite was by Maurice Sendak -- Where the Wild Things Are. Great theme, incredibly imaginative drawing and concept. This book really has it all.

For a little older, like late elementary school, I loved the Tarzan series. I read a ton of those. Then I loved the James Bond stuff in junior high.

I agree with the guy who loved Roald Dahl. That guy is really great and terrifically inventive and entertaining. I didn't get exposed to him until I was an adult, though. He's still incredibly worth reading, and often repeatedly.

Where Wild Things Are will always stick with me as my favorite childhood book.

[swede123]

Being Swedish I have very fond memories of all the stories by Astrid Lindgren. You Americans probably recognize Pippi Longstockings, but she wrote dozens of other great childrens' books. At an earlier age I was a big fan of this little fella:



Swede

[tolbiny]

This book and Watership Down.
I can't think of anything that hasn't been mentioned half a dozen times already in this thread.

[KKbluff]

I probably read all 176 of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series.
( I do remeber cheating on a few of the books now and then.)
I wasnt the only one who did this was I?

[RustedCorpse]

Some of them you could NOT reach all the endings. I loved those books but in later years I finally sat down with a notebook and back tracked every ending and there were quite a few where you couldn't reach every ending. You were meant to cheat, that destroyed my concept of honor and I never read another again. True Story, I like potatos.



In other news my fav

All the C.S. Lewis Chronicles
Ender's Game
Where the Wild Things Are
The Rats series
The Forgotten Realms books, I seriously have almost every one of those books published.

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Oh, I LOVED Curious George too! Good reminder. I was nuts for this little dude. The Curious George books were almost impossible to check out at any library, and were overly expensive, from what I remember, so I never really did get my fill of him.

[goofball]

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sorry for ending the thread, but...



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Very nice choice. I also loved berenstein bears.

I liked the Boxcar Childeren books the best until I discovered my dad's Playboys.