The WG challenge for this week is to talk about fond memories of childhood books. Oh, my goodness. Where do I begin? I had to go back to my books on Shelfari.com to see what my favorites were—though pretty much everything is a favorite, to be honest.
I have to say that I was a huge fan of series books—the Babysitter’s Club, Cam Jansen, Little House on the Prairie, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Harriet the Spy books, Little Women, anything by Zilpha Keating Snyder (especially The Egypt Game), Judy Blume’s books, Enid Blyton, the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses, the Nancy Drew series, the Bobbsey Twins, Madeleine L’Engle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Anne of Green Gables, A Cricket in Times Square, E. Nesbit, The Borrowers, The Westing Game, the Boxcar Kids, Ann Rinaldi’s books, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Noel Streatfield’s Dancing Shoes series, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Tuck, Everlasting, I, Juan de Pareja, Cynthia Voight, Charlotte’s Web, The Pigman.
Whew. I think I read all of these when I was under 12, though I certainly re-read many along the way. I remember reading Roald Dahl in school; the teacher would read various of his books outloud. Ann Rinaldi's books got me hooked on hisotrical fiction, as did A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver. I believe I've read nearly every book in the Babysitter's Club series, as I have with the Nancy Drews. I read The Westing Game at age 10 at overnight camp. The Cam Jansen books were the first books that I read to myself. I read Harriet the Spy at age 8, and for that whole summer, I ran around with a notebook, taking cryptic notes about people. When I was nine, I tried to make a "book on tape" of myself reading Sideways Stories From Wayside School. I got hooked on Enid Blyton's books when I went to England at age 10.
I have to say that I was a huge fan of series books—the Babysitter’s Club, Cam Jansen, Little House on the Prairie, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Harriet the Spy books, Little Women, anything by Zilpha Keating Snyder (especially The Egypt Game), Judy Blume’s books, Enid Blyton, the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses, the Nancy Drew series, the Bobbsey Twins, Madeleine L’Engle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Anne of Green Gables, A Cricket in Times Square, E. Nesbit, The Borrowers, The Westing Game, the Boxcar Kids, Ann Rinaldi’s books, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Noel Streatfield’s Dancing Shoes series, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Tuck, Everlasting, I, Juan de Pareja, Cynthia Voight, Charlotte’s Web, The Pigman.
Whew. I think I read all of these when I was under 12, though I certainly re-read many along the way. I remember reading Roald Dahl in school; the teacher would read various of his books outloud. Ann Rinaldi's books got me hooked on hisotrical fiction, as did A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver. I believe I've read nearly every book in the Babysitter's Club series, as I have with the Nancy Drews. I read The Westing Game at age 10 at overnight camp. The Cam Jansen books were the first books that I read to myself. I read Harriet the Spy at age 8, and for that whole summer, I ran around with a notebook, taking cryptic notes about people. When I was nine, I tried to make a "book on tape" of myself reading Sideways Stories From Wayside School. I got hooked on Enid Blyton's books when I went to England at age 10.
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