Favorite Books From Your Childhood?

[Odinkar]

The Great Brain series, The Little House on the Prarie. I read them to my kids now.

 

[phs3194]

My favorites in the late fifties and early sixties were Walter Farley's "Black Stallion" books. I also enjoyed Jim Kjelgards (SP) books about Irish setters.

 

[Mike1957]

When I was a kid I read anything I could find by Heinlein and Norton.

 

[revho]

Richard Scarry's Busy Busy World

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

Growing up in '50s I don't believe anyone mentioned my favorite reading from Dec '53 on

PLAYBOY

84 posts and no mention of it.

 

[G-Mac]

"Drag Strip" by William Campbell Gault.

I still have it.

 

[anglaispierre]

George Orwell's Animal Farm. Read it again some years later. Cover to cover non-stop. It was a different book the second time round. Wonderful.

 

[slumpy]

Calvin and Hobbs.

 

[357larry]

Learned how to read before I started kindergarten with a complete set of Curious George. I wonder if my mom knows how much those things are worth now? I wonder if she still has them?

 

[BubbaBlades]

As a child growing up in the 50s, outer space and cowboys seemed to be the main subjects that I looked for in both books and TV programs. There was, however, one Dr. Seuss book that made a big enough impression on me that I remember its title for more than fifty years: "Gerald McBoing Boing."
Mark