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Old 08-30-2009, 02:15 PM
 
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I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books-Little House on the Prairie etc.It was a TV series here in the UK.
Also bought Judy Blume books-bought them in the US , Black Beauty and the Heidi books. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Old 09-01-2009, 02:20 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Oh, almost forgot an author I read extensively: F. W. Dixon. Though no one person probably existed by that name.
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Old 09-02-2009, 08:14 AM
 
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the little prince was my favorite book when i was a child..

my aunt give it to me when i was 3 but since i dont know how to read,
i was contented in looking at the pictuers and drawings..

when i reach 5 and know how to read a bit i begin to read it over anover till i memorize the whole book!!








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Old 09-06-2009, 10:53 PM
 
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I loved The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I was in third grade when a friend brought it home from Australia, and I must have read it a dozen or more times. While not great literature by any stretch, it was part of a trilogy that truly captured my imagination. I think those books made me a reader. They were re-released a couple of years ago, and I bought them for my young daughter. She loved them, too.
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Old 09-09-2009, 10:08 PM
 
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Kon Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl.
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Old 09-12-2009, 02:36 PM
 
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I read constantly as a child once I had access to a library or friends books (i.e. past 6 or 7). Books were just not as available to us in a small town in the early 60s. I remember Pippi Longstocking, the Twins referenced here are also a dim memory - we had only one of the series where they were on a beach vacation? All the Hardy Boy and Nancy Drew books because the small library had then all. Many of the books mentioned here I discovered in my late teens or early 20s - Watership Down, the Chronicles of Narnia etc.
I do remember being struck by a book with a young boy who goes to live in the woods for awhile. How he tanned things in a tree stump and just amazing woods craft. It had a gold medallion on the cover. The overall book is a little dim but the emotion engendered isnt.
I was probably between 12 and 14 and read The Voice of Bugle Ann any number of times.
Before I wrote this I googled it because I wasn't sure of the title - just the name of the dog - I had no idea it was a pretty famous book and apparently a well known movie. It was just a book I had found laying around somewhere. I guess its closest counterpart according to Amazon would be Where the Red Fern Grows but that one I don't remember reading. If you liked WTRFG I would look up The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936). Short (115 pgs) but extremely evocative.
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Old 10-19-2009, 08:32 AM
 
Location: East Side
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
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Old 10-19-2009, 08:40 AM
 
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I cried and cried over Peter Pan.
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Old 10-19-2009, 08:46 AM
 
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This is a tough one, I liked so many books. I guess I would say Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.
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Old 10-19-2009, 08:50 AM
 
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I cried and cried over Peter Pan.
I hated that story as a kid and I still do, lol.

I loved The Little Princess, which was the expanded version of Sara Crewe.

I remember reading and re-reading several times a book called The Spinning Wheel Secret about a colonial girl whose mother is kidnapped in an Indian raid and who is left with a relative but takes off on her own to go find her mother.

Read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books, as well as another series, Cherry Ames, about a nurse.

Read the whole shelf of biographies of famous Americans in the children's library in my town.

And around 12 or so, I read this great book called Addie Pray, about a con man and his daughter traveling during the Great Depression. A part of the book was made into the movie Paper Moon starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. The best part, their biggest con, isn't in the movie.
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