What books were your favorites?

Mine: I loved and still do the Berenstain Bears. I have all 65+ of whats called 'First Time Book' series and 34 of the 'BIG Chapter book' series. I was an introverted kid and would happily sit on my bedroom floor with a stack by me reading them all day. I also loved the chapter book series 'Kids of Polk Street School' I own that whole series in first edition mint condition. My 2nd grade teacher used to read them out loud to us everyday for about a 1/2 hour.

Goodnight Moon

I have several
Berenstain Bears
Little Critter books
Owl at home
If you give a mouse a cookie
Mora's Birthday/ 50 below zero
Amelia Bedelia Series
Ramona Quimby Series
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon
I had a teacher that read a few book from the series The Boxcar Children and I got hooked on them
Also when I was about 10 or so I used to love to read Gary Paulsen books

oh man...this thread brings back so many memories...

the bernstein bears
love you forever
amelia bedelia (i still remember one of my elementary school teachers who would read us a story once a week)
the little critter series (they were my favorite!)
nancy drew
goosebumps
babysitter's club
curious george

oh yeah, i forgot about amelia bedilia! i always loved that series. i also like love you forever, it makes me want to cry at the end.

Curious George-the Hospital one is the one I remember the most
Richard Scary books
Dr. Seuss books
Ramona Quimby
The Little Golden books-I had a ton of these

Bernstein Bears, Little Critter, Babysitter's Club, Babysitter's Little Sister: Karen Brewer series and the American Girl doll books along with the Magic Attic girl books, omg I loved those!!!

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many more. :)

quite a few, but in particular I LOVED the American Girls series.

Seconded on Berenstain Bears, they were my favorite books when I was in elementary. I collected all the books, even after I stopped reading them because I had an appreciation of the furry art.

I also loved Brian Jacques' Redwall series and I'm planning on finishing up my collection in the future, but I'm not a fan of the binding on the newer paperback editions, I prefer the Ace editions.

I spent hours of my childhood in my bedroom laughing my butt off at Lois Sachar's Wayside School books (Heck, there are times I still break these books out).

I fell in love with Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series when I got to high school because the movie series was airing on A&E during that time.

I was (and still am) a major bookworm. I loved the Berenstein Bears, Little Critter, Clifford, American Girl, Baby-Sitters Club, Sleepover Friends, Wayside School, and so many more.

After reading your favourites, this is REALLY going to date me! But I gotta post 'em cuz they were great:

Little Women (read the series up to Jo's Boys)

Anne of Green Gables (a standard for every Canuck girl - had the entire set)

The Green Ghost (a cool paperback I got when I was in the grade 5 book club)

When I was younger:

Curious George (that monkey rocked!!)

any Dr. Suess - Green Eggs & Ham, Cat In The Hat, etc.

I never got into Winnie the Pooh - liked Tigger and Eorr (sp?) but not Winnie. :lol:

How could I ever forget Charlotte's Web? My all-time favourite as a child. Every kid should read that one! I even had a rat named Wilbur! ;)

The Ramona series - Beverly Cleary

Baby-Sitters Club

Girl Talk

Sleepover Friends

Nancy Drew

Amelia Bedelia

Berenstain Bears

Those are just off the top of my head!! :D

Doctor Dolittle series, by Hugh Lofting
Mop Top, by Don Freeman
The Lemonade Trick / The Limerick Trick
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Dr. Seuss books, especially "Scrambled Eggs Super," "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," "Horton Hatches the Egg," "The Lorax," and "The King's Stilts."

Oh, I still have quite a few Little Golden books and Sesame Street books. I'm hanging on to them so I have something entertaining for my nephew whenever he visits. :cool:

The Berenstain Bears

My Favorite books were:
The Ramona Quimby books
Henry Higgins books
Charlotte's Web
Little House on The Prairie Books
Little Golden Books
Curious George Books
B is for Betsy and the other Betsy's books.
The Cathy series and the Chris series by Catherine Woolley.
The 3 Bears
Cinderella.:wave:

My absolute favorite was "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. It still holds up as an awesome book. I also loved "Harold and the Purple Crayon."

Other favorite include: The Berenstein Bears series, Goosebumps series, and the Babysitters Club series.

Berenstain Books
Disney Books
Sesame Street
Little Golden Books
Dr. Seuss

i used to love little golden books too. i had a lot of the disney titles in them like cinderella and snow white and i had one called 'a visit from grandma and grandpa' that i liked, i think cause the girl character looked like me when i was little. i also liked a similar series called 'little elf books' or maybe it was 'junior elf books'. anyone remember these? they were kind of small and had lots of titles. one of my favorites was 'twas the night before xmas. i loved the illustrations they used for that story. i remember a few chapter books i read too. one was called 'bunnicula', it was about a cat and dog who thought the new pet bunny was a vampire. it was a cute story. then there was 'witches' by roald dahl. my 3rd grade teacher read it out loud to us complete with voices. it was the only book that ever scared me. and another one was 'you shouldn't have to say goodbye' about a girl who's mom is dieing of cancer. she ends up dieing on xmas day. it was pretty heavy reading for the targeted age range (9-12 yrs )

Babysitter's Club! Total obsession. I sat down at work and started reading one once...doesn't have the same appeal anymore. lol

Wayside School books

I had tons of Dr. Seuss. I had "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" memorized.

These just came out, but I get a kick out of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The kids at school love them too.

On the other hand, I hate Junie B. Jones books. I think they are horrible, but the first and second graders eat them up.