Favorite childhood books you hope your kids love

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A Little Princess, ( I know there are problematic bits about Colonial India and the like) I could not interest my daughter in a book I have practically memorized.

How old is she? You might wait a while and try the movie, or wait a while and then try Secret Garden first.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Enid Blyton books. I grew up in England and wrote so many books. I tried my kid on one when she was 8 and she didn’t like it. Trying again now at 10 and she likes it so far.

Having grown up in India, we had a steady diet of Enid Blyton books as well. I have a bunch I bought for myself as an adult. DD was pretty ho-hum about them. I still love them.

This is me as well. I bought a bunch as an adult and could hardly wait to introduce them to my kids. Well, DS 1 read a few chapters of a Famous Five book and declared, "I don't like it, they talk funny", and that was it. I was so heartbroken!

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Couldn't get DD interested in The Daughter of Time, waaah. And DD reads tons.

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Beatrix Potter. I also got the videos. They loved it.

Enid Blyton was a miss. I still got it for them.

Comics - Asterix and Tintin - which they loved.

They liked Roald Dahl.

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Hatchet. My 4th grade teacher read it to the class and I was transfixed.

I tried it with my older son and he wasn’t that into it, but his little brother ended up loving it and has read it at least 5 times now on his own.

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I loved What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry, but I guess it's politically incorrect now.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter loathed Little House. Said it was incredibly boring.

She also wouldn't touch:
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Witch of Blackbird Pond

She *does* like:
Nancy Drew
Harry Potter
Judy Blume

You and I would have been best friends. I still remember the main character in Witch of Blackbird Pond being tutted at for the amount of slits in the sleeves of her dress.

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Anonymous wrote:None of my 3 kids (now teens and older) are readers like my sister and I were (waaah!).

My favorites:

All-Of-A-Kind-Family - there were my favorite childhood books, and I still reread them when I am in the mood. Read some of these aloud to my children. It's coming out in a movie and I'm reading the author's biography now. Wish my kids would love these like I did.

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself - my favorite Judy Blume book!

Encyclopedia Brown books - such fun books when I was a kid. When my children were little I would get the audio books of these for the car, and my kids liked listening to them. They were the perfect length for short car rides to try to figure out the puzzle.

Trixie Belden - never expected my kids to read these, but I saw others mention them. I loved these books as a kid. They were 99 cents paperback (dating myself!), and every time we'd go to the mall, I'd ask my parents for a dollar to buy a new book. I still have them all!

I am 60 and loved these books- beautiful, heart-warming and it was really the first time I had read anything about people who were Jewish.

51 and same. I still recall the story about the one daughter cutting up her stockings to get a doll from a church charity. And the older sisters fighting over the stained dress - tea got spilled on it so they dyed the whole thing with tea and called it "ecru." I don't remember a ton about them practicing their religion, but I remember the sukkah and the seder.

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Are You There God it's Me Margaret
The Mixed UP Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
Ralph & Motorcycle
Matilda
Snow
Wrinkle in Time
charlottes web
Chronicles of Naria
Lord of Rings, Hobbit
Harriet the Spy

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Anonymous wrote:Thankfully, my kids also loved Corduroy.

The Little House books did not age well, though. Landed with a thud.

This.

Same!

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Speaking of childhood books--BBC is doing a podcast production of The Dark is Rising for any Susan Cooper fans here. My 11yo wanted to bail after the first episode, but I convinced her to try the second and she was hooked.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Enid Blyton books. I grew up in England and wrote so many books. I tried my kid on one when she was 8 and she didn’t like it. Trying again now at 10 and she likes it so far.

New poster and so happy to see the second post of this thread mentioned Enid Blyton. I love reading her books growing. I love her Famous Five series and Secret Seven. Highly recommend!!

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The Ramona books. Number the Stars. I hope my sons will read them/ no daughters here