books What was your favourite book as a child?

[Reecejackox 349]

I would say the Mr men books for me.

[SharpWit 2,472]

Loved the illustrations, love dinosaurs, will bring a Great Dane home some day.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

The Warrior Cats series. They're not my favorite anymore, but second favorite isn't bad. They're still enjoyable to read.

[Canteen_the_unstable 7,963]

 

Goosebumps series for me

[AppleButt 8,669]

I really enjoyed the  “Hank the Cowdog” books. 

[Pastel Heart 6,463]

Berenstein Bears were always my favorite!

[Fluttershyfan94 5,738]

I mostly read comics myself, though books I would say Harry Potter and some that I don't think were sold elsewhere but I guess they were like horror stories for kids haha. That I enjoyed reading, I did like Harry Potter a lot.

[Treeglow Flicker 13,017]

Charlotte's Web.        

[Lulaypp 2,554]

Any version of The Gingerbread Man, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Enormous Turnip. Especially the the first two. For some reasons I was obssesed. There was also this book called "Apa Kucing Boleh Buat?" (What can a cat do, if translated). I also have a wierd love for that book. Around ten I love anything Enid Blyton (still do!). Specifically the Wishing Chair series.

[Yoshi89 5,290]

Mine was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[Tao 6,724]

The last unicorn,  i still read it!

[TotallyNotNyx 15,563]

2 hours ago, Reecejackox said:

I would say the Mr men books for me.

Ooo the Mr Men and Little Miss books were great

As for my favourite as a child, they were the Percy Jackson books 

[TBD 17,228]

I remember hating reading as a kid if that counts. 

[Venomous 18,813]

Stellaluna written by Janell Cannon was my favorite book to have read to me as a child. I still find it to be a cute, quick read. The same author also wrote Pinduli, which I also loved ♥️

[cuteycindyhoney 13,283]

"A Bear Called Paddington". I think it was the first "Grown Up" (I thought) chapter book I ever read. I adored Paddington. Still do! I had a collection of five or six of the Paddington book in paperback, in a slide in cardboard box. I only remember the first volume's title. I read them all quite a few times. I don't know what happened to it, but I'd love to read them again!

Side note: OMG, I LOVED the movies! Peter Capaldi as Mr. Curry was nothing less than a joy to behold!

 

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[Oleks 1,983]

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. My dad read it to me when I was little, and when I learned to read, I read it twice.

[Awkward Segway 301]

That depends what you mean by "child". In middle school I loved the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. But if you mean as a younger kid, then it would probably be the Goosebumps books.

[Kamii 594]

I didn't really read story books but I read a lot of children encyclopedias. I managed to find my absolute favorite, one about horses. The first few pages were torn because of how much I used to read through it~

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[ShadOBabe 18,984]

9 hours ago, Bakugou is my Man said:

Stellaluna written by Janell Cannon was my favorite book to have read to me as a child.

OMG I was gonna mention Stellaluna!! Such a sweet little story. I loved how the bottom corners of the pages show you illustrations of what Stellaluna's mother is up to elsewhere. <3

My other favorite books from different ages included the Twiddlebugs Dream House...

The Jewel Kingdom: The Jewel Princesses and the Missing Crown...

Hatchet...

And this adorable little book that I can't seem to track down. It was a sticker book story about this little princess that lost track of her stuff a lot, and it followed her around her castle as she was looking for one of her favorite trinkets. Each page had a different bauble that she'd find and you could put a stick jewel on it, and the final page had a literal dragon's hoard of goodies you could put stickers all over.

EDIT: Found it!! It's The Princess Lost her Locket...

Edited May 28, 2020 by ShadOBabe

[Dabmanz 2,128]

I did not read much as a kid.

[KatonRyu 1,026]

I think it's anything in the 'Griezelbus' series, which for the non-Dutch speaking people here means something like 'Scary Bus' or something. The first one was about a school trip, in a bus, where a children's author reads scary stories. Obviously, the stories themselves are chapters in the book, and the writer is not what he seems either. Later books all still involve the bus, and scary stories, but they become progressively stranger (in a good way, mostly). These stories are still some of the scariest I've ever read, simply because they tend not to end all that well, and they're written in a very to-the-point style. It's also influenced me immensely in how much I wanted (and still want) to become a writer. The books actually deal quite a bit with the process of writing stories and how they come alive in different ways. Being horror books, the 'coming alive' part is not metaphorical.

[SpittyPie2005 3,923]

Sometimes I Like to Curl Up In a Ball! My mom would read it over, and over, and over again when I was a toddler.

[Splashee 28,537]

I liked to read the Tintin series for its art. But as a kid, I usually drew in the books as well, such as glasses and smoking pipes.

[Fluttershutter 2,118]

On 5/27/2020 at 6:21 PM, Reecejackox said:

I would say the Mr men books for me.

Wow, that takes me back! I actually bought a box set just for nostalgia a few years ago.

20 hours ago, Bakugou is my Man said:

Stellaluna written by Janell Cannon was my favorite book to have read to me as a child. I still find it to be a cute, quick read. The same author also wrote Pinduli, which I also loved ♥️

Cool, I've never read it but a book about how cute bats are is great for kids.

My favorite author when I was a kid was a guy named John Bellairs. He wrote kids horror stories before Goosebumps. One, "The House With A Clock In It's Walls" was badly adapted.

     

A Couple of adventure books about kids on their own I loved and read over and over:

   

[cuteycindyhoney 13,283]

Here's a really obscure couple of  books.  "Mutiny in the Time Machine" and "Time Machine to the Rescue" They're about some boy scouts that fine a time machine while out hiking in the wilderness somewhere. They were my brother's. I don't know where he got them. I just  stole borrowed them.

I come from a family of science fiction fans.