Your Favorite Children's Books

How could I forget Encyclopedia Brown?!!


Anyone else remember these? There were a few stories in each book. Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown was a really smart kid (genius) whose father was the chief of police in their small New Jersey town. For $.25 a day (plus expenses) Encyclopedia Brown would solve neighborhood mysteries. He had a big bad bully nemesis named Bugs Meany. Bugs was behind a lot of the thefts and scams in the town and kids he had wronged would come to Encyclopedia Brown's "office" (his dad's garage), plunk down a quarter, and ask for help in getting back their (stolen bicycle, precious coin, etc. etc.). These books were wildly entertaining to me when I was a kid. At the end of each story, Encyclopedia Brown would announce that he knew who had stolen the XXXX or why the XXXX was a fake, etc. Then you had to turn to the answer key at the back if you hadn't figured it out yourself.

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

I just thought of another few books I loved as a child.


Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
That was about a mouse who had to move her kids from their home in a field that was soon to be plowed. The lived in a cinderblock partially submerged in the field. One of her sons was sick and could not move on his own, so she enlisted the aid of some superintelligent rats that lived in the rosebush on the farmer's property. This book won the Newberry Award for children's literature.

The House with a Clock in its Walls
By John Bellairs.
I recently found a John Bellairs anthology in a bookstore, on sale way cheaper than I thought it would be for a hardcover. I bought it and reread this story, and a couple of others that were nearly as good. This took me back to feeling like I was in 5th grade again!


Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

I read ALOT from kindergareten till now (11th grade). The Giving Tree was one of my fave books in preschool and even before that. We had to read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry in 6th grade in class and i dont know why, but that was the best book i read that year. Now i dont really have a fave book but i would like to read that book that Ken Kesey wrote-One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest i think its called. I think music really touches me more than books or movies do.

 

Somthing from nothing..The pictures rocked.. Was about a bunch of mice who lived under someones floor and picked up the scrap fabric and made stuff from it.

 

A Wrinkle in Time, without a doubt. I should read it again, really, I love it.

 

'jesse bear, what will you wear' (age 5?)
'ramona the pest' (8 maybe)
"little eitha?"
that one with that mouse that drove a lil car n all n the lil boy who kept him
'alice in wonderland'
many of enid blyton's books
and of course 'green eggs and ham' n the other suess classics.
forgot the rest. i've always loved reading

 

omg, the ramona series and the encyclopedia brown books rocked. I always felt so damn clever if was able to figure out encyclopedia brown's mystery without turning to the back, lol.

 

ANYTHING by dr seuss... especially fox in sox
the secret garden and the little princess (by the same author, cant remember her name)

 

"The Little Prince" and Everything about Pooh and C.Robin. My kids all loved Shel Silverstien. What a great way to introduce them to poetry.

 

When i was really young (about 3) i loved Goodnight Moon. I also remember loving The Bearstein Bears. Dr. Suess was cool too

 

Did you know that they made the Bearenstein bears change their name....They are now the bearenSTAIN bears. Apparenly someone wasn't happy that the bears were Jewish or something like that...I am not knocking Judiasm by any means, but that was just rude!

 

People keep reminding me of all kinds of great books I now remember reading in elementary school:

The Outsiders

The Ramona books -- which were part of a connected series by Beverly Cleary, and some involved Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy. LOVED those!

The Mouse and the Motorcycle -- about a mouse named Ralph who had a toy motorcycle that would actually drive when he made a "ththbbthththb" sound!

all of the Judy Blume books -- Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing was a CLASSIC... then Superfudge; Blubber; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, and others. That woman is an ICON.

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I used to read a children's dictionary a lot...i know it sounds stupid, but there were like pictures for every word. It was pretty cool for a young kid.

 

Where the Wild Things
any Dr. Seuss book
Goodnight Moon Room
Corduroy
The Very Hungry Catipillar

 

I agree. The first book I ever read was by Dr. Seuss.

 

I loved those 3 too. I also enjoyed Dr. Seuss, Necklace of Teardrops & East of the Sun West of the Moon.

The 2 favorite books I've shared with my daughter are:
1. The Mountains of Tibet by: Mordicai Gerstein
2. All I See is Part Of Me by: Chara M. Curtis

~* Bright Blessings *~

 

When I was very young, I loved the series by Thorton W. Burgess about the forest animals. As a teen, my favorites were all by Paul Zindel. Pardon Me You're Stepping on my Eyeball! is the best.

 

Enid Blyton was almost always a winner for me as a kid, my favourite of hers being the Enchanted Wood, Magic Faraway Tree and the third in that series! The famous five were always fab along with the '..of adventure' series she did.

One that I loved was Rebecca's World - Terry Nation, I don't remember the story but I know it was a bit surreal, I'm considering picking up a copy of that sometime soon....

Winnie-The-Pooh is just the best and will never die

Mr Men books were great.....wasn't too keen on the 'little miss' ones tho'

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Watership Down (sob!)

Ooooh, not standard fiction but the 'Fighting Fantasy' books by Steve Jackson

Soooo many more that I can't recall right now. I've read some great kids books over the last few years tho', obviously Philip Pullman's Northern Lights trilogy, Alan Garner - Owl Service and Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising Sequence which I highly highly highly recommend

I'm sure there are many many more.......

 

"The Outsiders" By, S.E. Hinton. Great Read!

 

'Fantastic Mr. Fox' has gotta be the best for me! What isn't there to love about it? Oh and 'Watership Down' is another fav! I always wanted to read the 'Red Wall' seriese, but never got around to it. PM me and give me some info on them!