What books did you read when you were a kid?

I remember The Snowy Day. That was one of my favorites when I was young.

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When I was really little it was Disney books mainly Cinderella, Snow white, Bambi and Pinochio as I got older it was all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and The Boxcar Children books.

Oh gosh, I was a voracious reader as a child. I loved all kinds of books, many different authors. I did all the usual ones like Beverly Cleary, E B White, Judy Bloom etc I remember wanting to read every biography by a certain publisher at my elementary school library...and I did!

I loved the Nancy Drew Mysteries...we had all of them in hardcover at home. I remember putting them in order in our library on the bottom shelf and sitting there and looking at them. LOL! I also loved the Little House books, short stories and then moved on to all different kinds of mysteries, biographies etc I enjoyed all the James Herriot books, Agatha Christie mysteries etc

I remember in jr high, having read already, all the 'classics' that we were to read...Steinbeck, Hinton, Twain, Dahl etc My parents loved to read and definately passed that down to their kids.

As a child, I did not read much at all.

As a very young child, my favorite was The Poky Little Puppy. Oddly, my favorite as a teenager was Lord of the Flies.

Once I got to college, the world of reading really opened up to me.

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When I was little, Harold and the Purple Crayon was a big favorite, along with Charlotte's Web.

As a tween, I got into Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury - my favorites of theirs were Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonnegut), Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), and Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury). I actually met Ray Bradbury as a sci-fi fair as an adult, and got him to autograph my copy of Dandelion Wine. It was also as a tween that I fell in love with Mark Twain.

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I don't remember reading a whole lot when I was a kid although I do remember loving The Little House on the Praire books. I had the whole set, also I still have the first book I remember buying myself it is called the Black Stallion. I didn't really start enjoying reading until after my kids were born.

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I read a lot and was bringing chapter books into kindergarten haha, when I was first learning to read though I loved the Little Golden Books, namely the Pokey Little Puppy, Tawny Scrawny Lion, and Saggy Baggy Elephant

I had (still have) the box set of the Little House on the Prairie books also!

I also had (and kept haha) every horse book I could get my hands on and own the complete sets of the Black Stallion series, Thoroughbred series, and Marguerite Henry's books (Misty of Chincoteague writer)

I also got hooked onto Jean Auel's 'Earth's Children' series, the whole no modern conveniences thing appealed to me and still does, have been waiting years for her to finish the next book. Stumbling across some of those detailed sex scenes at 10 or so was a bit awkward though

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Nancy Drew, Laura Ingals Wilder, The Boxcar Children, Nurse Betty

I loved to read as a kid. We lived in a rural area and couldn't go to the library all that often which is how I got into my habit of reading the books I love over and over again. As a grownup I was surprised by how many of my friends don't read books a second time!

I loved the Little House Books, the shoe books by Noel Straetfeld (dancing shoes, ballet shoes, etc), Trixie Belden, any thing by Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary. I still have a little library of my favorite books from when I was a child. They are very comforting.

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As a child Where the Wild Things Are and Clifford books.

A little older: Little House books, anything by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High series, and the Rats of Nimh (I think that was the name of it).