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Originally Posted by sapiens
When I was a kid, I often got in trouble for reading under my covers late at night with the bed lamp. I loved reading. I was always had a book.
What books from your childhood do you remember fondly? Why? What books would you recommend? What books would you want to read with your children if you ever had any?
I must admit that I have had some trouble recalling some of my own favorites from childhood. Some that I remember enjoying:
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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+1 on The Hobbit!
Also, Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Prydain series, by Lloyd Alexander
The Dark Is Rising series, by Susan Cooper
The Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
A Wrinkle In Time series, by Madeleine L'Engle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/and the Great Glass Elevator, by Roald Dahl. (Although I went back and read these again as an adult, and found them so tweaked and fucked-up, I'm not sure I would give them to my kids.)
The 21 Balloons, by William P. DuBois
The Out of the Silent Planet trilogy, by CS Lewis (I always liked these better than the Narnia books, which even as a kid I found too Christian for my Jewish tastes)
The Oz books, by L. Frank Baum
The Vesper Holly books, by Lloyd Alexander
Adventures of Robin Hood, by Roger Lancelyn Green
The various architecture books by David Macaulay
The Golem, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
As A Driven Leaf, by Milton Steinberrg
The All-of-a-Kind Family books, by Sydney Taylor
And the usual run of classic novels and short stories.....