Yesterday, I showed you my top ten favorite childhood books. That took me over five hours to write, because I had so much trouble choosing and finding the right quotes! I decided to list the runners up, but I also wanted to ask all of you: What were your favorite childhood books?
The entirety of Madeleine L’Engle’s works.
Anne of Green Gables series and her stand-alone books-L. M. Montgomery
The Shadow Children series-Margaret Peterson Haddix (all of hers, too)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-L. Frank Baum
The Felicity and Samantha books-American Girls
Ella Enchanted-Gail Carson Levine (and the rest of her books)
The Three Musketeers-Alexander Dumas
The Harry Potter series-JK Rowling
Little Women-Louisa May Alcott (though not any of her other ones)
The Princess Diaries series-Meg Cabot
All-American Girl-Meg Cabot (okay, all of her books, really)
The Dragonlance Chronicles-Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Lord of the Rings-JRR Tolkien
The Silver Chair-CS Lewis
The Mandie Books-Lois Gladys Leppard
A Little Princess-Francis Hodgson Burnett
All-of-a-Kind Family-Sydney Taylor
The Great Brain Books-John D. Fitzgerald
There were so many more books. Maybe this post should really have been about favorite authors… Anyway, what were your favorites?
Antigone's Clamor 
The Wizard of Oz is great! 🙂 but.. Nothing can top my childhood obsession with the Lord of The Rings..
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It is! I remember being so excited when I found the book version, because there was a lot more to the story. 🙂
haha, many of the people I know (myself included) went into a mild obsessive phase with LotR.
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Definitely Trixie Belden.because she was so independent, self-assurred (usually), and displayed characteristics we then thought of as male and female. I wanted to be that brave.
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This is true! She was really a different breed of woman and showed that girls didn’t have to conform to the traditional feminine roles–she was not meek or demure, she wanted a career, she was terrible with housework (though she could cook!)..there is more, but I can’t recall it right now. Oddly enough, the first book was printed in 1948, though I think she was more popular in the ’60s and ’70s.
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NOW you’re talkin’: LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY and HOBBITS!!! My very favoritest allegory EVER!
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Haha! Not my first favorites, but I do enjoy them. 🙂 Are you excited for the new Hobbit movie?
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Rabbit Hill and Red Sails to Capri.
I would reccomend Red Sails to
Capri to everyone and anyone
young or old.
A country boy sees a strange
ship with red sails bearing three
strange men. When one of the
men wishes to explore a local
cave that is rumered to be cursed –
The boy’s mother goes on strike
forceing the three men to cook
and clean the family’s inn while
the boy and his father try and
fail to make a soft boiled egg.
Nothing will make you laugh
harder or wish it was longer
then this mediterain
masterpeice.
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Interesting. I haven’t heard of either of those. I’ll have to add them to my list. Thanks, Rastelly! And thanks for coming over to comment.
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Authors is right, it’s too hard to have favorite books…..
Lord of the Rings
Jane Austen (Especially Persuasion)
The Scarlet Pimpernel series
Alice in Wonderland
Madeleine L’Engle (Favorite –A Swiftly Tilting Planet)
George MacDonald -Mainly short stories
Narnia
Robin Hood (Paul Creswick’s and Roger Lancelyn Greene’s versions)
All of E. Nesbit’s stuff.
All of Edward Eager’s
Heidi
I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch, but I think I covered the basics. I could keep typing indefinitely.
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L’Engle, Narnia, and LotR are staples, though I’m not fond of Austen, Carroll, or Nesbit (stylistic/content reasons). I haven’t read MacDonald’s short stories…only the Princess and the Goblin books. And I didn’t know that the Scarlet Pimpernel was a series! Augh, more books to read right before school… Thanks for stopping by to comment, Crumpetnut!
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I realized later I hadn’t put my name, I forgot you wouldn’t know my username. 😛 It’s just Elsie…. There are 10+ Pimpernel books, the best sequels being El Dorado and The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel– I highly recommend them, and you can find most of them as free e-books.
Those three are definitely a matter of taste, some people just don’t prefer them. Especially Carroll, I know lots of people that think he’s silly and stupid, but Alice is really one of my all-time favorites.
You know I love L’Engle, do you have any recommendations of her adult books? I read The Small Rain, but I haven’t heard any others recommended. I reread most of the Murray/O’Keefe books annually, but other than that I haven’t read any of hers in ages.
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Oh, hello, Elsie, dear! Sometimes I’m not sure where people come from here. 🙂 Okay, I’m basically drooling about the Pimpernel books. I guess I’ll have to read those after I read the Hunger Games books!!
Yes, my taste is really more toward the American side, especially gothic, transcendentalist, and modernist fiction. I discovered those when I was older, though, so they can’t go on the list. 🙂 With Alice, I can’t get past Lewis Carroll himself, actually. He was such a creepy man that I have a hard time reading the book. I might have liked it if I had read it when I was little and didn’t know much about him, though.
Yes, ALL of them. 😛 I’d start with “The Love Letters”. Have you read any of the Austin ones? Those are teenager ones…for an audience a little older than Wrinkle. It starts with “Meet the Austins”, then “The Moon by Night”, then “A Ring of Endless Light”. Also, “The Other Side of the Sun” is really good, too.
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I would have to say The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Little Women, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter! 🙂
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Yes! We have such similar favorites, Lauren. 🙂 Seeing that last HP movie was bittersweet. It’s nice to kill Voldy and all, but did it really have to be over? 🙂
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