What was your favourite childhood book and why?

My favorite book and one I like my children to read is James and the Giant Peach. In fact they made it in to a movie.

I'd have to say the Frog and Toad books. Don't know why exactly, but I've always kept that memory with me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad

Ooooh, what a great (and tough) question! I don't know if I'm going to be able to narrow it down to just one! Can I cheat and choose a couple different ones since my fave changed as I got older? I have to agree that I always adored The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and it's still my fave by Eric Carle). Gotta love a book you can poke your fingers through and play with! lol Even better than that one for me though is one called Stand Back Said the Elephant, I Think I'm Going to Sneeze. It's this great story where all the jungle animals are panicked because the elephant is going to sneeze and they are telling what happened to them the last time he did so. When I started reading chapter books, I fell in love with Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I actually read that one before I even read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Totally MHO here, but I think the Glass Elevator beats the Chocolate Factory all to pieces! After getting even a little older, I got turned on to Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time. I first read that one when I was in seventh grade and have loved it ever since.

My fav book was a Fairy Tale Treasury I got for Christmas one year. It had so many stories, so I never got tired of it.

Aesop Fables ws my favourite childhood book and its moral has given me a food for thought afteralso...mainly it focuses on animals and birds and their relationship presented in a story form and every story ends with a moral like slow and steady wins a race for rabbit and tortosise story...lot of stories...lot of morals ...lot of learning at childhood..and even after that..even now i study some times when my child gets such books for her reading...such strories can be read not only at childhood but even after that anytime everytime...if u happen to get one and read u will appreciate my fact about Aesop Fables

phew... my parents never read to me. but i remember reading to myself. LOL. yes.. and it was Frankenstein. I was so young when i was introduced to gore. But Frankenstein has always been my favorite. Kinda weird for a child. But i did love it alot. And i never had problems sleeping. No nightmares.

Whwn I was 7 or 8 years old my favourite books were the ones about Bomba. The first one of the collection was "Bomba, the jungle boy". The second was "Bomba and the moving mountain". I don't remember other names, but there were about a dozen titles in the collection. The author was Roy Rockwood.

I was a Dr. Seuss fan, and McElligot's Pool and Scrabbled Eggs Super were probably my favorites to be read. I also enjoyed looking at the pictures in McElligot's Pool. I also loved my dad to read us from the Oz books, and somewhere I have a good collection of them, packed in a shed... :(

Flat Stanley was my favorite as a child

My favorite book as a child was Harriet The Spy as it was the first book longer than 20 pages I ever attempted to read and it was a mystery and to this day I love detective books.

well,my childhood favourite was Aesop Fables which is a collection of stories based on animals and there is a moral for each story and such moral is valid for even human beings eventhough it was mentioned for the animals/birds.i cannot forget such stories which talks about morals like slow and steady wins the race for the story of Rabbit and Tortosie.....likewise lot of morals and lot of stories which were interesting...even today i enjoy reading such stories with my child...if u happen to see Aesop Fables dont miss it....at any age at any time...

"School Boys" written by a Russian writer(I dont remember his name) was the book presented by my uncle which I remember today also...can anyone if you know the name of this author and from where can I purchase it now as I would like that my kids and my grand children should also read this book...

grins, oh my memories are dregded up. i was a fan of nancy drew and hardy boys till around 12 years old since i can't remember when. the first time i learnt to read?? grins i don't know why i loved them so much at tht time. i can just remember always searching for their books. in fact, i basically finished all their books in the school library and got really bored when i couldn't find others. hehehe used to read while walking also and always got a scolding from my friends and mom. hehehe maybe it's the mystery factor and also the realistic way the authors wrote their characters. really made me feel as if i was watching a movie and i could even put sounds to their voices. how they would sound basically. grins. hehehe sometimes i would link up the 3 main gals frm nancy drew books with the 3 main guys frm the hardy boys. hehehe loved it when i used to find books with them mixed together. one of my favourites then. hehehe now i don't really read them though. go for more mature ones. hehehe though all romantic mysteries of course, and thrillers and suspense with of course a tinge of romance. tht is a must.

yaa u are correct, becaue we can't explain by words for the value of books .. i have red so many books but one book is i can't forget my enteire life.. that is non other than "autobiography of a yogi" its sprtiual book writen guruji parama hangsua yogananda......thanks u friend.. give me response.

I love all the hans christian anderson and the brothers grimm fairytales the most.

The Poky Little Puppy! It was a Golden Book about a spotted puppy who had adventures and got into mischief!

Hands down my favorite was an illustrated Greek Mythology. My grandmother got it from the library when I was 10 to read on a long trip we were making to see my aunt in Texas. It sparked an interest in the mythology and since that time I have read just about anything I can get my hands on in that subject area. Plus my grandmother special ordered that illustrated mythology for me and gave it to, so it is doubly special because my grandmother and I are very close.

I remeber that book the hungry catapillar but my favorite book as a kid was The little prince.

You have very good taste. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is an all time favourite of mine, too. I also loved anything by Roald Dahl, especially Danny, Champion of the World. Other favourites include Possum Magic, and Wombat Divine by Mem Fox, and Wombat Stew. Being a kinder teacher means I never have to give up my favourites, but can introduce a whole new generation to them!

yes i love the very hungry caterpillar but my most favorite book of all times even today is the giving tree about the tree who gives everything all of her to the boy when he needs it that is the best book ever to me