Is there a book from your childhood that stands out?

[annabear3]

The Babysitters Club. I read all of them. I was obsessed.

[PluviophileReader]

The BFG by Roald Dahl was the book that got me hooked. I probably read that book at least five times growing up.

[Headbanginghunny]

The Series of Unfortunate Events series stands out in my mind to this day. I also enjoyed Number the Stars by Lois Lowry that I read in grade school. Also, all of the Goosebumps books!

[sammi8764]

My most favorite children's books were and always will be Stellaluna and The Rainbow Fish. I'm not exactly sure why, but I never forgot those stories. I remember them to this day.

[swalker123]

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. It lead me to a love of math and science.

[Amsha]

There's this romance book on Harlequin, it was called Mills and Boon at that time, I've read as a child that I completely forgotten the title but I remembered distinctly the hero's job. He's a salvager on lost and broken ships and I liked what he does for a living. Saving cargoes and looking for lost things at sea sounds like a grand job and I remembered thinking wanting to do that as well. But then I discovered I don't have the stomach for traveling by boats and I was vastly disappointed.

[MelMariah]

I have a beautiful, old, amazingly illustrated series of Peter Rabbit.
I used to watch the TV show when I was young and mum read me the books.
I still have all of them, little bit battered, but still in beautiful condition.

[Wolfsbane Creations]

Famous Five and Harry Potter got me into reading

[amansmith]

Ella Enchanted. It was probably one of the first books that I remember reading. I did read others before that, but it is the first one that I really remember. I have a copy of it sitting on my bookshelf today for that exact reason.

[readinginreview4]

Goodnight Moon is the one that stands out for me. It used to be my favorite and I still love it.

[ayesha02]

This thread is fantastic. Like others have said, it brings back so many memories... There are too many books that I read back then and loved, and so many have stuck with me in memory... Though i sometimes find that the magic that existed in a book I read as a kid, just isn't the same anymore... Somehow some stories seem to have been much more complex and detailed, and just fantastic back then than they are now.

Some of my favorites were the Narnia books, all of Roald Dahl's children books, the Famous Five, other Enid Blyton series, The Secret Garden and The Little Princess, Black Beauty, The Swiss Family Robinson, Peter Pan, Harry Potter, Diane Wynne Jones (still regularly reread her books), Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, The Wheel of Time series, J.R.R Tolkien's books... too many others...

I remember also enjoying the Babysitter's Club series, the Animorphs series, Cam Jansen, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys...

Younger still, I remember my mother reading this story about a bully who steals a boys sandwich (and other food), and how he got rid of him in the end by making a really hot sandwich (or was it a drink?) and tricking him into eating eat. I can't remember the name of the book. Then, there was the Amelia Bedelia books, I loved having those read to me as a kid, they were so hilarious. And the Busytown books about Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm. My father would always make this joke about Lowly Worm being last and it always made us laugh so much...

[randolphfine]

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I read this book several times and I had to hide when I read it because the ending made me cry. I tried to chop down a tree after reading this book (the book's readers will understand), and my Mom stopped me. It was made into a rather campy movie that does not stir the imagination like the book does.

Where the Red Fern Grows was also at the top of my list. I grew up in Oklahoma hunting racoons, so I really related to the book. Other books that stood out for me was Big Red (yep, another dog book) and the Chronicles of Narnia series. Going even farther back into my younger years, I was infatuated with all the Beverly Cleary Ralph the Mouse books.

[ayesha02]

Sorry I'm posting again, but does anyone remember Mr. Poppers Penguins? I loved that story for along time as a kid... used to wish we could keep the windows open and make snow slides in our living room in winter...

[that_bek_girl]

Charlotte's Web! I re read this as a ten and 3 times in the last year with my children. They are reading it to me now!

[ambiguity+]

Not one but many books because I was much of a reader. I grew up reading harry potter, and its still a part of life. Then there are all those amazing books from Roald Dahl which still are good children books. Enid Blyton's Famous five, The magic umbrella and Malory Towers also stand out.