Your favorite book as a kid

Hi inkyuboz, I was such a reader as a kid. I have read hundreds or may be even more books till today. When i was 9, my dad got me a British Council Library Membership, so i used to borrow lots of books and read them sincerely. Crime Novels/stories have always been my favourite. I still have a good collection of Agatha Christie Novels. I will pass them on to my kids one day. I am a big fan of Conan Doyle Novels too. I started reading them after i reached the age of 15 because they had some complicated stories and are difficult to comprehend well. From that time on i just adore Sherlock Holmes and his amazing detective skills. My other favourite was Enid Blyton. His books used to be so simple yet so informative. I can never forget these writers because they were an important part of my life when i was a child.

Wow! Sweet memories of childhood! I grew up reading an awful lot of books and comics! I read Enid Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five, especially the Famous Five were my favorite, Alice in Wonderland, classics such as Little Women, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Count of Monte Cristo, etc. Gerald Durrell's escapades with numerous animals and insects. Tintin, Asterix & Obelix, Phantom, Mandrake the Magician comics, also Flash Gordon and Rip Kirby. Spiderman was just getting popular here so read some of them although I was not much fond of him. Archie and Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comics were another favorite of mine!

I have read a lot of books starting from the fairy tales and the colorful ones and then i read sweet valley kids and outgrow reading them,they became too thin for of so i started reading sweet valley high and Nancy drew series. I started reading national geographic and readers digest too while i read sweet valley university in 12th grade. Haha. Well there, i guess there were some other teen books too but sweet valley sure filed up a lot of my bookshelf space.

MATILDA & ALICE IN WONDERLAND!! i remember my mum bougt it for me & i keep telling her i want to be like Matilda, have super powers & scare those nasty adults if they mess with me XD well,memories... i guess its important to have kids these days to read a storybook than to play in the ipad too much :)

For me, the more effective question would be what didn't I read when I was a kid. When I was younger and even today, I've been the kind of person that loves to read and I will read almost anything that you put in front of me. With that said, the books that I remember reading the most was Ann M. Martin's Babysitter's Club series. There was a time that I had the first 100 titles in that series and I read all of the books more than once.

I read a little bit of everything as a child, but my favorite were those by Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read a number of classics, like the Wizard of Oz, Little Women, White Fang, The Time Machine, and many more. I borrowed the Sweet Valley series from my older girl cousins and eventually grew into more serious books as I grew older. Oh, and I was one of those people swept into the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings mania too.

Hi Dear inkyuboz! I am from India and today I am more than fifty years old! As a kid I used to enjoy 'Amar Chitra Katha Comics' which used to cover the Indian Epics with an excellent illustrations in them. These comics were available in Hindi and English and I used to get engrossed in these Comics. We used to Have a Children Magazine by name of 'Chandamama' which we used to get in Hindi, English and in my mother tongue Telugu, this magazine used to have lot of social stories with a moral at the end. Thus I used to be happy with these Comics along with other periodicals. But having grown up I have started with Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens etc. Today I have got a good collection of classics with me! I love reading books and collecting them! Thanks for the discussion!

I didn't really read a LOT as a child, I read the OZ books, but mostly my dad read them to us. It wasn't until I found horse books that I started reading. I read all the horse books in my middle school library, and the local branch of the city library. I also read Mary Poppins. THEN, at 13, I discovered science fiction and I have NEVER looked back!

I grew up in the 50's. I read Nancy Drew books and anything I could find about horses. One day when I was in the fourth grade a man named Wilson Rawls came to speak at my school. He had written a book entitled Where the Red Fern Grows about him and his hunting dogs. He had the rough draft with him which reached from the floor nearly to his waist. I got a copy and it has always been a favorite of mine.

Well Harry Potter was all the rage when I was a kid... but I grew to resent it after a bit. Anytime I would take a thick hardcover book anywhere all the adults would be like, "Awww... is that Harry Potter?" And I'd be like, "NO! I HATE HARRY POTTER!" And then they'd gasp in shock and horror like that was an absurd idea. lol I didn't really hate Harry Potter, I was just a huge reader before it happened and I thought there were loads of books that were better. I really loved classics like The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnette, and The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. I also really enjoyed all the books by Bruce Coville, and I read the Magic Treehouse series and the Secrets of Droon series. I was always reading something. By middle school I was reading full-length adult novels like This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti. These days I read children's books, YA books, and adult novels pretty indiscriminately. I think a good book is a good book no matter what age it was written for.

I read my first book in the 3rd grade (luckily my siblings were also interested in reading and there was no lack of books in my house). I read "The Secret Island"-Enid Blyton, and that made ms a voracious reader.I read Harold Robbins "A stone for Danny Fisher"in the 6th grade. My apetite has not whetted even after 40 years and now I want to write a book. I don't know whether I'll be successful but at least you can dream, even if you can't do something!

ooops! I left out The Black Arrow and the Hardy Boys series that I really loved.

I grew up reading comic books. I read and bought comic books a lot. I loved archie comics the most. And there were mangas and story books too but archie comics were my very best. I have a huge cupboard full of them. It's sad I don't get to buy them anymore.

when i was a kid i grew up reading the Goosebumps series. I collected them all and i read them all. Each one was a different adventure story with scary twists that kept me reading more and more. These books also helped me learn how to read better.

Whatever was popular, I refused to read. I was a non conformist. When I was seven I read The Children's Classic version of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and I read The Secret Garden. At that time my friends were reading books of about twenty to thirty pages like Snip Snap Snur. In later primary and early secondary schools, my friends read Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) and The Hobbit(Tolkien), I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Gone With The Wind, and books by Taylor Caldwell. (Dear and Glorious Physician) In High School, friends still reading Tolkien,and Madeleine L'Engle. if they were reading at all. I was reading the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid, along with Beowulf. I decided to read Tolkien in my thirties, CS Lewis and Louisa May Alcott, in my late thirties and early forties.