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amanda_in_pajamas) wrote in books2009-09-30 12:03 am
Survey Says...
What are some of the books you remember reading as a child?
I'm compiling a list of books to collect for my 3-year old as he starts to get older. I have some of the books I read as a little kid, but a box or two of books has gone missing.
Missing Books Include:
1. Freckle Juice
2. How to Eat Fried Worms
3. Fudge...(really the whole Fudge world)
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Books that are on the list that I do still own:
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
3. Cricket in Times Square
4. Bunnicula/Howliday Inn/The Celery Stalks at Midnight
5. The Box Car Children Series
6. Charlotte's Web
7. The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks
8. Mr. Popper's Penguins
9. Ramona Quimby (et. al.)
I'm really looking for any age range here, so don't hold back any book suggestions for older middle schoolers. Even though he's only three, he enjoys listening to chapter books. We've already made it through the first Box Car book in the series and are working through the second. I'm just trying to keep thinking one step ahead of this kid so that he's always interested and challenged by the stories we read. (And I have a serious book-buying addiction, so I'm more than happy to get books for when he's older.)
Thanks for any suggestions you guys can come up with!
I'm compiling a list of books to collect for my 3-year old as he starts to get older. I have some of the books I read as a little kid, but a box or two of books has gone missing.
Missing Books Include:
1. Freckle Juice
2. How to Eat Fried Worms
3. Fudge...(really the whole Fudge world)
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Books that are on the list that I do still own:
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
3. Cricket in Times Square
4. Bunnicula/Howliday Inn/The Celery Stalks at Midnight
5. The Box Car Children Series
6. Charlotte's Web
7. The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks
8. Mr. Popper's Penguins
9. Ramona Quimby (et. al.)
I'm really looking for any age range here, so don't hold back any book suggestions for older middle schoolers. Even though he's only three, he enjoys listening to chapter books. We've already made it through the first Box Car book in the series and are working through the second. I'm just trying to keep thinking one step ahead of this kid so that he's always interested and challenged by the stories we read. (And I have a serious book-buying addiction, so I'm more than happy to get books for when he's older.)
Thanks for any suggestions you guys can come up with!
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The Castle in the Attic - Elizabeth Winthrop
The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
The Ordinary Princess - M.M. Kaye
Mystery Cat and sequels - Susan Saunders
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norman Juster
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The Dark Is Rising series - Susan Cooper
Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
Little House series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
Ghost in the Garden - Carol H. Behrman
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Don't really have anything specific to add other than to second Diana Wynne Jones' stuff and that you might find books by Michael Morpurgo of interest. :)
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i also liked the three investigators series by robert arthur, about 3 pre-teen boys who start a detective agency. according to amazon.com there's at least 43 of them, but they were written in the 1960s so they might be a bit dated.
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I loved those books! I also like the Brains Benton series, but I think I only got to read two or three of the six that were published.
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The Borrowers - Mary Norton.
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Iron Man - Ted Hughes.
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If he likes mysteries, there's also Encyclopedia Brown that I remember enjoying. Also, I adored "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by Konigsburg. I remember reading several of the Goosebumps books too, though admittedly I was also terrified by them. (I just. couldn't not read them either. It was kind of trainwreck-y.)
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The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye
Monster of the Month Club by Dian Curtis Regan
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
David And The Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd
I Want To Go Home by Gordon Korman
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
Larklight by Phillip Reeve
A Walk in Wolf Woods by Mary Stewart
Octogon Magic, Dragon Magic, or Day of the Ness by Andre Norton. She wrote a fair amount of kid friendly SF and fantasy.
The Moorchild or Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw.
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A Wind in the Door
Many Waters
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (these are a series)
Five Little Peppers - Margaret Sidney (this is actually the first in the series)
Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up - Shel Silverstein - not stories, but I think any kid likes those poems.
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Lots of Enid Blyton! Fantastic Five/Secret Seven mostly
All the Roald Dahls
The Mog books
The Narnia series
The Very Hungry Caterpiller ;) (every kid should read this!!)
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When I was older I enjoyed Gulliver's Travels and Around the World in 80 Days as well.
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Where the Wild Things Are
At the Zoo by Rod Campbell
The Jolly Postman by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg
Julia Donaldson is also good for picture books, I read quite a few of those too.
And I think every kid needs a Where's Wally? book in their life :)
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- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper
- the Wayside School books as well as Holes, all by Louis Sachar
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (and the other Alexander books) by Judith Viorst
Others have mentioned both Harry Potter and the Wrinkle In Time quintet, and I would agree with them, as well as with the person who recommended the Shel Silverstein poem books. :) Happy gathering!
EDIT: And you know, you may have them already, but I always adored those Little Golden books - my favorites were always The Poky Little Puppy, The Little Engine That Could and The Monster At The End Of This Book.
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