May 4-10 is Children’s Book Week. What are some favorite books from your childhood? Here are some of mine:
Goodnight Moon is a lovely read-aloud book for small children. The pictures are colorful and full of interesting details. My mother would end each section by asking “Where’s the mouse?” and my sister and I had to find the tiny mouse that appears in every picture of the little rabbit’s room.
We had an entire library of Little Golden Books when I was a child. I learned to read from these, and still have a couple of battered old copies on my bookshelf.
I loved this book. I went through a stage where I read only “talking animal” books like Charlotte’s Web or Mrs. Frisby and the Rats from NIMH.
I’ve always loved mystery books. I read both the Nancy Drew series and the Hardy Boys, plus the next series:
I really wanted to live next to a junkyard and have my own secret hideout like these guys did!
I also went through a horse phase. I started with Billy and Blaze and soon graduated to the Black Stallion books …
I also loved the Misty of Chincoteague books.
I’ve loved the Old West since childhood. I think I might have been a Native American in a past life or something … I love reading about different tribes and their cultures.
This was one of my first science fiction books, although at the time, I just thought it was a ripping good yarn. I quickly graduated into reading Andre Norton, who has about a zillion books written.
Do you have fond childhood memories about books?
