Favorite Children's Books - Page 3

Miranda · 12-06-2002, 05:15 AM

I always had a soft spot for the Sweet Dreams series- real boy meets girl, falls in love then disaster strikes but its always a happy ever after kinda stuff. I find it really sick now but I'm still a hopeless romantic at heart but I tend to go for your swash buckling, orc killing, Strider type guy now rather than skinny little teenage brat with the IQ of a goldfish!!!! Mx

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-07-2002, 07:43 PM

Yep! Enid Blyton was my fave! I particually loveThe Magic Faraway Tree! They were great!! I loved the character Moonface!

sun-star · 12-08-2002, 12:05 PM

I loved the Faraway Tree as well! Especially the land with all the birthday parties

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-09-2002, 02:40 PM

When i was really small i used to wish i lived there and that i could visit a different land everyday!
i used to read it all the time!

What was the name of that food they used to eat in the Faraway tree?

Oh and they had that slide that led to the bottom of the tree!!

I'm gonna have to find it and read it again!!!

sun-star · 12-11-2002, 03:16 PM

Didn't they use to have biscuits which would explode in your mouth? I wanted those so much!

Varda Oiolosseo · 12-13-2002, 06:50 PM

That's it yeah!! I used to want those soooooooooo much! I used to ask my mum to make some!!

WHat other lands came? THere was the land with all the birthday parties, oh and there was theone with all the ice cream flavours!
Once they all went to visit Moonface's friend and his house and everywhere you went was made of food!!
In fact that was the same landin which they had all the ice cream flavours! and soup flavours!

samwiselvr2008 · 01-03-2003, 12:32 PM

I like the Laura Engles Wilder series, me and my mom read them together so I don't know what level they are on. I also liked the Cronacles of Narnia, even thought I never finished them, me and my mom started to read them together, and ever since we moved we haven't picked them back up, I'd like to finish them, but I want to read them with my mom, she said that we would pick them up soon! I also liked Chinees Cinderalla, it's on autobiograpy, but it's really good and sad (be prepared to cry). I think that this is on a 4th grade reading level, but another favorite is Where the Red Fern Grows, I'v read it 4-5 times since 2nd grade, it was a yearly thing and then I got intrested in other books (I'm in 7th grade now). I never read Harry Potter, so I'm not sher what level it is on, so forgive me if these are below or above that level of reading! I know that there are alot more, but I can't think of them right now!

A good author to check out that I would sugest is Gary Paulson, he only wrote one boook that I didn't like, and he has writen alot of books (I haven't read all of them, even though I spent over half of my 5th grade year reading only Gary Paulson, theres that many books). He wrote some really good ones, there's one that is SF, but I can't think of the title, the other ones are fiction and historicle fiction mostly. The first one of his that I read was called Hatchet, after you read that, you can also read Brian's Winter and another one about the same story that comes after it that I can't remember the name of.

Another Favorite book is called Holes, I don't remember it that well, because it's been a while since I read it, but I remember asking people if there was a sequal to it after I finished it, and I was disapunted that there wasn't.

***azalea*** · 03-30-2003, 04:52 PM

I just finished reading my four year old the Pooh books (Winnie the Pooh, followed by The House at Pooh Corner). It was so funny because at the end I cried (if you don't know why, read the last chapter of The House at Pooh Corner!), and he didn't understand why, and I tried to tell him that sometimes a good book makes you cry. He gave me a hug.

Anyway, that is one great piece of children's literature!

Millane · 03-31-2003, 09:04 AM

mmm fav books growing up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and most Roald Dahl books and when i was really young Grug i doubt anyone has heard of grug but trust me if you find one his books read it there great

Fav childrens book Watership Down and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... i read these now because they are way different looking at them older and arent as neat and kiddy-ish as the Enid Blyton books which i always found too dull

cassiopeia · 03-31-2003, 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by Millane
mmm fav books growing up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and most Roald Dahl books and when i was really young Grug i doubt anyone has heard of grug but trust me if you find one his books read it there great

Is Grug a little mushroom-shaped creature with long brown hair? I remember those books.

Orion · 04-01-2003, 02:04 AM

I used to read a lot L.M. Montgomery´s and Louisa Alcott´s books as a kid, and I just loved Emily of the New Moon.. it was the old-fashiousness of those books which made them so fascinating. It was the same thing with Laura Ingalls-Wilder´s books. I used to read also E.R. Burroughs´ Tarzans

, Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton. The oldest books were the best..

Millane · 04-01-2003, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Is Grug a little mushroom-shaped creature with long brown hair? I remember those books.

hahahaha thats the one... you have proved me wrong someone else does know Grug

gandalfstormcrow · 04-01-2003, 08:33 PM

Well, Dr. Seuss was always my favorite as a kid. The Berenstein Bear books were also good. I have more but I can't remember titles or the authors at the moment.

I just remembered! One of those was Where the Wild Things Arebut I can't remember the author.

***azalea*** · 04-01-2003, 10:32 PM

Maurice Sendak

Elvengirl · 04-02-2003, 12:02 AM

My favorite children's book is Charlotte's Web. Beautiful story I still cry when I read it

I love Winnie the Pooh too
Laura Ingalls Wilder,
every Nancy Drew book(the old ones)
Narnia
oh, and all the Aesops Fables, fairy tales.....these are just a few

The Roald Dahl (sp?) books used to scare me, sorry but they are just wierd.

Belle · 04-02-2003, 06:05 AM

Enid Blyton and the Faraway Tree was brilliant, as was the Wishing Chair (I think that's what it was called!) I always wanted to be Silky the fairy, she was cool. I also loved Malory Towers with Daryl and everyone, like Harry Potter with no magic! And of course Narnia was amazing, but I have to say that His Dark Materials Trilogy was an amazing read, i cried so much at the end of TAS. Terry Pratchett Truckers, Diggers and Wings was good too, and I recently read his new children's book 'Maurice and his Amazing Rodents', which actually disturbed me quite a bit! Roald Dahl is another favourite, The BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine, and the Magic Finger. And yes (shame) I used to love the Sweet Valley books, with the Unicorn Club! How sad am i?

Elvengirl · 04-02-2003, 11:35 AM

lol.. I used to read Sweet Valley, oh, and the Babysitters Club.

Ssh.. don't tell anyone

It'll be our secret

I have to thank Tolkien once again. After I read the Hobbit, I found a whole new genre of awesome stories.
Another of my favorites is The High King by Lloyd Alexander, if I remember correctly.

miss_poet · 04-12-2003, 09:19 AM

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Originally posted by Varda Oiolosseo
I liked Roald Dahl to infact i still do especially Matilda!!
I also used to love Enid Blyton i read all her books they were sooo good! I've still got them all!

I LOVE the books by Roald Dahl! He uses descriptive words in his books! I enjoyed reading The BFG, George's Marvelous Potion, and some of his other books! They are very good books and I recommend them to anyone!

GrayMouser · 04-13-2003, 08:49 AM

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Originally posted by Varda Oiolosseo
Yep! Enid Blyton was my fave! I particually loveThe Magic Faraway Tree! They were great!! I loved the character Moonface!

Thank you thank you thank you! I read that a loooong time ago, and could never remember the name oe the author, and never came across anyone else who had read it.

And yes Finn Family Moomintroll! (and the rest in the series) by Tove Jannson.

Historical books, anyone? For some reason my interest was always pre-medieval - from prehistoric through Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome.

Though one more modern favorite was "The Hills of Varna" by Geoffrey Trease.

Huan · 04-14-2003, 12:15 AM

As a kid, I focused almost exclusively on superhero comic books, but occasionally I'd let an actual book slip through. The Hobbit was great, of course. As a really little kid, I loved those - grrr I forget what they were called, but that whole series of little hardcovers for early readers: The Pokey Little Puppy, There's a Monster at the End of This Book (featuring Sesame Street's Grover), etc. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Loved Maurice Sendak. And above all, I loved Henry and Ribsy and the Ramona books. I read somewhere once upon a time that all people who read as children can be evenly divided as either Beverly Clearys or Judy Blumes, and I find that to be quite true. Myself, I've never read a Blume book, but I devoured Ms. Cleary's tomes. The question is, why should this be true, that you either like one or the other of those two authors? Who here are the Clearys, and who the Blumes?

12-06-2002, 05:15 AM	#41
Miranda 'Bohemian princess of Covent Garden Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Mill Posts: 544	I always had a soft spot for the Sweet Dreams series- real boy meets girl, falls in love then disaster strikes but its always a happy ever after kinda stuff. I find it really sick now but I'm still a hopeless romantic at heart but I tend to go for your swash buckling, orc killing, Strider type guy now rather than skinny little teenage brat with the IQ of a goldfish!!!! Mx __________________ There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

12-08-2002, 12:05 PM	#43
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I loved the Faraway Tree as well! Especially the land with all the birthday parties __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

12-11-2002, 03:16 PM	#45
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Didn't they use to have biscuits which would explode in your mouth? I wanted those so much! __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

01-03-2003, 12:32 PM	#47
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	I like the Laura Engles Wilder series, me and my mom read them together so I don't know what level they are on. I also liked the Cronacles of Narnia, even thought I never finished them, me and my mom started to read them together, and ever since we moved we haven't picked them back up, I'd like to finish them, but I want to read them with my mom, she said that we would pick them up soon! I also liked Chinees Cinderalla, it's on autobiograpy, but it's really good and sad (be prepared to cry). I think that this is on a 4th grade reading level, but another favorite is Where the Red Fern Grows, I'v read it 4-5 times since 2nd grade, it was a yearly thing and then I got intrested in other books (I'm in 7th grade now). I never read Harry Potter, so I'm not sher what level it is on, so forgive me if these are below or above that level of reading! I know that there are alot more, but I can't think of them right now! A good author to check out that I would sugest is Gary Paulson, he only wrote one boook that I didn't like, and he has writen alot of books (I haven't read all of them, even though I spent over half of my 5th grade year reading only Gary Paulson, theres that many books). He wrote some really good ones, there's one that is SF, but I can't think of the title, the other ones are fiction and historicle fiction mostly. The first one of his that I read was called Hatchet, after you read that, you can also read Brian's Winter and another one about the same story that comes after it that I can't remember the name of. Another Favorite book is called Holes, I don't remember it that well, because it's been a while since I read it, but I remember asking people if there was a sequal to it after I finished it, and I was disapunted that there wasn't. __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

03-31-2003, 09:04 AM	#49
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	mmm fav books growing up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and most Roald Dahl books and when i was really young Grug i doubt anyone has heard of grug but trust me if you find one his books read it there great Fav childrens book Watership Down and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... i read these now because they are way different looking at them older and arent as neat and kiddy-ish as the Enid Blyton books which i always found too dull __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,

12-07-2002, 07:43 PM	#42
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	Yep! Enid Blyton was my fave! I particually loveThe Magic Faraway Tree! They were great!! I loved the character Moonface!

12-09-2002, 02:40 PM	#44
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	When i was really small i used to wish i lived there and that i could visit a different land everyday! i used to read it all the time! What was the name of that food they used to eat in the Faraway tree? Oh and they had that slide that led to the bottom of the tree!! I'm gonna have to find it and read it again!!!

12-13-2002, 06:50 PM	#46
Varda Oiolosseo Tea Bag Queen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 973	That's it yeah!! I used to want those soooooooooo much! I used to ask my mum to make some!! WHat other lands came? THere was the land with all the birthday parties, oh and there was theone with all the ice cream flavours! Once they all went to visit Moonface's friend and his house and everywhere you went was made of food!! In fact that was the same landin which they had all the ice cream flavours! and soup flavours!

03-30-2003, 04:52 PM	#48
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I just finished reading my four year old the Pooh books (Winnie the Pooh, followed by The House at Pooh Corner). It was so funny because at the end I cried (if you don't know why, read the last chapter of The House at Pooh Corner!), and he didn't understand why, and I tried to tell him that sometimes a good book makes you cry. He gave me a hug. Anyway, that is one great piece of children's literature!

04-01-2003, 02:04 AM	#51
Orion Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Finland Posts: 78	I used to read a lot L.M. Montgomery´s and Louisa Alcott´s books as a kid, and I just loved Emily of the New Moon.. it was the old-fashiousness of those books which made them so fascinating. It was the same thing with Laura Ingalls-Wilder´s books. I used to read also E.R. Burroughs´ Tarzans , Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton. The oldest books were the best.. __________________ If you are going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

04-01-2003, 08:33 PM	#53
gandalfstormcrow Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ridding Middle Earth of Sauron before bedtime. Posts: 58	Well, Dr. Seuss was always my favorite as a kid. The Berenstein Bear books were also good. I have more but I can't remember titles or the authors at the moment. I just remembered! One of those was Where the Wild Things Arebut I can't remember the author. Last edited by gandalfstormcrow : 04-01-2003 at 08:35 PM.

04-01-2003, 10:32 PM	#54
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Maurice Sendak

04-02-2003, 12:02 AM	#55
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	My favorite children's book is Charlotte's Web. Beautiful story I still cry when I read it I love Winnie the Pooh too Laura Ingalls Wilder, every Nancy Drew book(the old ones) Narnia oh, and all the Aesops Fables, fairy tales.....these are just a few The Roald Dahl (sp?) books used to scare me, sorry but they are just wierd. __________________ The Elves represent, as it were, the artistic, aesthetic, and purely scientific aspects of the Humane nature raised to a higher level than is actually seen in Men.~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wanna play? www.thievesguild.com

04-02-2003, 06:05 AM	#56
Belle Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Essex! Posts: 72	Enid Blyton and the Faraway Tree was brilliant, as was the Wishing Chair (I think that's what it was called!) I always wanted to be Silky the fairy, she was cool. I also loved Malory Towers with Daryl and everyone, like Harry Potter with no magic! And of course Narnia was amazing, but I have to say that His Dark Materials Trilogy was an amazing read, i cried so much at the end of TAS. Terry Pratchett Truckers, Diggers and Wings was good too, and I recently read his new children's book 'Maurice and his Amazing Rodents', which actually disturbed me quite a bit! Roald Dahl is another favourite, The BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine, and the Magic Finger. And yes (shame) I used to love the Sweet Valley books, with the Unicorn Club! How sad am i? __________________ You made me that much stronger Made me work a little bit harder Made me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Made me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

04-02-2003, 11:35 AM	#57
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	lol.. I used to read Sweet Valley, oh, and the Babysitters Club. Ssh.. don't tell anyone It'll be our secret I have to thank Tolkien once again. After I read the Hobbit, I found a whole new genre of awesome stories. Another of my favorites is The High King by Lloyd Alexander, if I remember correctly. __________________ The Elves represent, as it were, the artistic, aesthetic, and purely scientific aspects of the Humane nature raised to a higher level than is actually seen in Men.~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wanna play? www.thievesguild.com

04-14-2003, 12:15 AM	#60
Huan Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Oxford, MS Posts: 274	As a kid, I focused almost exclusively on superhero comic books, but occasionally I'd let an actual book slip through. The Hobbit was great, of course. As a really little kid, I loved those - grrr I forget what they were called, but that whole series of little hardcovers for early readers: The Pokey Little Puppy, There's a Monster at the End of This Book (featuring Sesame Street's Grover), etc. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Loved Maurice Sendak. And above all, I loved Henry and Ribsy and the Ramona books. I read somewhere once upon a time that all people who read as children can be evenly divided as either Beverly Clearys or Judy Blumes, and I find that to be quite true. Myself, I've never read a Blume book, but I devoured Ms. Cleary's tomes. The question is, why should this be true, that you either like one or the other of those two authors? Who here are the Clearys, and who the Blumes?

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