Book-Talk Monday: Favorite Book Memories from Childhood
Monday, May 13, 2013
Here are some of my favorite book memories from childhood.
What are some of your favorite books from childhood?
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I remember begging mom to read Uncle Remus Stories to us again and again. I just loved those stories. 🙂
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I *love* The Poky Little Puppy – definitely my favorite book when I was a kid!
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The Amelia Bedelia books by Peggy Parish
The Munch Bunch books by Giles Reed
I Go With My Family to Grandma’s by Riki Levinson
Mimi and the Biscuit Factory by Viveca Sundvall
The Frances books by Russell and Lillian Hoban
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I loved hearing and reading The Lorax, The Sneeches, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish, The Zax, Horton and fairy tales. As I grew up, I became a devoted fan of Judy Blume–Are you There God? It’s me Margaret and the Fudge series, until the 4th grade, when I discovered “A Christmas Carol”–went to see a play, based on the book and I was hooked. It was not until 6th or 7th grade that I read it for the first time, but I watched all the movies. I still do to this day, read it at Christmas and watch all the specials.
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When my niece and nephews started arriving, it was tons of fun for me to find these old favorites and give them as gifts. Of course, the biggest book gift I gave was when my sister was pregnant for the first time (with my niece who graduates from high school a week from today) and I got a brand new set of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books for her—since I have the old yellow-cover set from when she and I were kids.
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I love “Are You My Mother” and “Harold & the Purple Crayon” were favorites of mine!
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I always liked the Nancy Drew and Laura Ingalls Wilder Books.
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I don’t remember too far back, aside from having some Dr. Suess books. I’m sure there were others. When I started choosing books of my own, I reread the Laura Ingalls books over and over. And I liked books about wolves. The Wolf, by Dr. Michael Fox, was one of my favorites and inspired my first attempt at a novel, with chapters, in the fourth grade. There was a book called Little Dog Lost, about a corgi, that I liked. The Incredible Journey. Seems I liked books about dogs and wild animals or else living in a sod cabin on the frontier.
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Oddly enough I don’t remember my mother ever reading to me. I do remember the first book I checked out of the city library was Pocahontas. I remember I loved fairy tales. My cousin had this reading text book from school that was full of all kinds of stories, especially fairy tales. I don’t know how he ended up with the book, but when he joined the Navy, his mother gave me the book. I still have it even though the cover is about to come off. I would order the Scholastic books in school. I remember reading The Incredible Journey and Born Free.
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