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[luminousmarble]

As I am shortly to pack up this computer, one last post for the road, or for where I put off responses because it's just not as easy without the ability to multi-tab.

Tell me about your favorite books as a kid!

Some of mine, from various ages: I liked Frog and Toad and Frances and Ramona; I liked Anne of Green Gables well enough, but I liked the

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[grimmy23]

I liked alot of books but not alot that I remember.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
The Bunnicula series
Dollhouse Murders
CYOA books
the Ramona books

I'm sure there are more that I can't remember at the moment.

[luminousmarble]

It's funny--I know I liked a lot more than this, too, but some of my very favorites were pretty obscure little books that I've never been able to entirely remember or track down.

[newsboyhat]

Rargh! My favourite topic ever!

I wrote an entire thesis inspired by Matilda by Roald Dahl, so I'll say that's my favourite, for very personal reasons. :D

I also loved Judy Blume's fudge books, and oh yes I read like 80 Baby Sitters Club books. and Tamora Pierce! I was 11 when I first read Harry Potter, does that count as my being a "kid"? (I tend to arbitrarily divorce everything read before Tamora Pierce as 'childhood' and everything after as 'tween'.)

I haven't read a lot of picture books because nobody read to me when I was young, and I became an independent reader very quickly and started reading chapter books. But of the ones I do remember, I loved "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch, Frog and Toad, Amelia Bedelia, Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree", and Anne of Green Gables.

[luminousmarble]

I had a love-hate relationship with Fudge. I wonder if it was early-development embarrassment squick? I never read Paper Bag Princess until I had to teach it, but I wish I'd seen it when I was littler.

[anemonerose]

When I was small, my mom purchased all the Golden Books, so those, along with Dr. Seuss, were what I read. I adored them all, especially the Poky Little Puppy. (There is one that we're trying to remember the name of, but it had something to do with an old man and his wife and - I think - cheese. And mittens. But I can't remember anything aside from that, and that's really not enough to go on.)

In elementary school I only really remember reading Number the Stars and all the Nancy Drew books I could get my hands on (my friends and I would check them out from the school and local library and share them).

In middle school I got into the romance phase, especially those Silhouette Intimate Moments books (I still have a soft spot for those), before branching out into historical romance.

[anemonerose]

Oh! And Monster at the End of This Book. I LOVED that one!

[luminousmarble]

Poky...Puppy is one of my all-time favorites because it is all about DESSERT. Who could resist? I did the same with romances, too.