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Old 06-01-06, 10:44 AM
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Favorite childhood authors and/or books?

My favorite authors include Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, and I guess R.L. Stine (I used to collect all the books -_-).

Favorite books have to be "The Giving Tree," "Green Eggs and Ham," "Matilda," .. the list can go on.

I was a bookworm -_-
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I read Stephen King's CHRISTINE when I was eleven, so I'm probably not the best guy to give an opinion...
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I won't merge because we may get new people posting and some new picks but see also: Damm ! I wish i still had all the Books from my Childhood !
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None of my friends remember these, but I LOVED a series called Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.
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The Island On Bird Street by Uri Orlev is a book about a boy living alone in a Polish ghetto during WWII. Fantastic book for kids and adults alike.

I was a big Ronald Dahl reader, including the very underrated Danny: The Champion of the World.

I would read just about anything that I was introduced to, but no others stick out. I was a big fan of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, as were all of my friends at the time.
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Originally Posted by tommyp007
None of my friends remember these, but I LOVED a series called Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.
Dude, I was all over the Three Investigators when I was a kid. Also Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Hardy Boys, and Roald Dahl. Then, in junior high, I got into Stephen King and sci fi stuff.

My great "no one else read them" books of my 5th grade year were the Firebrats series. About two kids who survive a nuclear holocost type situation. There were three books, I think, and a fourth one that never got released. Pretty cool stuff that has disappeared off the face of the earth.
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EB White did it for me. Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, etc...
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Shel Silverstein---and as an even younger fella, Richard Scarry.
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My favorite book as a child is still my favorite book today: Watership Down by Richard Adams. I pull it out every few years and read it through again. I was also a very big fan of Lloyd Alexander's books, especially The Prydain Chronicles. I read EB White and had a good selection of 40 or 50 hardy boys books. Read Beverly Cleary, the black stallion series and misty of chincoteague, paddington bear, secret of nimh, the first six OZ books, robin hood, MR James & HP Lovecraft (my dad introduced me to an interest in gothic horror early on and read a lot of these last two authors to me).

Just wish I had more time to read for pleasure these days, but I still think all of the above books and authors are terrific reads and are great for creating a lifelong love of reading.

Michael
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Roald Dahl, Hardy Boys, the 3 Earthsea books that were out at the time, and William Mayne: Earthfasts (pretty much any King Arthur related books I liked, but Earthfasts was especially cool and weird) were some of my favorites.

I also started reading Stephen King and Kurt Vonnegut when I was around 10. I was sort of traumatized by the sex parts of Breakfast of Champions (I was kind of a prudish kid), but I really liked Cats Cradle (and I still really like apocalyptic fiction now). The Shining made me sleep with the light on for a bit. My mom didn't really restrict what I read.

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Christopher Pike!
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Encyclopedia Brown was my biggest one. I could read those non stop. Donald J Sobol wrote them I believe. I loved mystery books as a child and that has carried over as an adult. I read Agatha Christie, Doyle and Rex Stout all the time.
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Christopher Pike!

ditto! i loved the last vampire series.
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I just discovered Leo Lionni.
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[QUOTE=darkside]Encyclopedia Brown was my biggest one.[QUOTE]

That's my pick too. I remember my sister and I rushing to the local library on Saturday morning to see who could grab them first.
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James Howe and the Bunnicula series.
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Judy Blume, Beverly Clearly
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a few selections: the Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley Twins & High, Nancy Drew, the Boxcar Children, RL Stine (mainly Fear Street), Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, the American Girl series, Narnia, the Alice series by Phyllis Naylor (which I still read whenever a new book comes out)
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The White Mountains and a sequel I believe was called The City of Gold and Lead. This was 40 years ago, these still around?
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As a child I really loved Bill Peet books. Now, as an adult, I collect them for my future children.

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Omg, Encyclopedia Brown! Richard Scarry! The Boxcar Children!

Man, great books

Originally Posted by Filmmaker
I read Stephen King's CHRISTINE when I was eleven, so I'm probably not the best guy to give an opinion...
And I used to read Dean Koontz books when I was in elementary school, so you're not alone in that sense :x
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I managed to hold on to a lot of my childhood books. There are ragged and worn but I display them proudly on my bookshelf anyway.
A Wrinkle in Time (the whole series of these books actually)
The Hatchet
The Phantom Toll Booth
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Soup & Me series
Chronicles of Narnia series
LOTR series

When I was 12 I became a big Stephen King fan. I don't know why(and more importantly why my Mom let me) but I read everything he had written up to that point with great delight. The only book that gave me nightmares was Tommyknockers. I took a break after that one.

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No Alice in Wonderland?
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Thankfully, my parents knew a child's imagination is a powerful gift best nurtured. As far back as early grade school, they would let me stay up well past my bedtime and read with a flashlight. Many of these books were eagerly explored by sleepy eyes under glowing sheets...

The Great Brain series
Encyclopedia Brown series
Hercule Poirot mysteries
Sherlock Holmes mysteries
The House with the Clock in its Walls
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The Learning Tree
A Wrinkle in Time
The Hobbit
Watership Down

Sigh... Good times. Good times.

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