I used to sneak around watching people after that

It is about a little orphan girl who discovers a city of tiny Lilliputians hiding in the woods near her home.

E.B. White - hands down!

I was also partial to Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books, too.

movie.

... never read one again. I tried the Hardy Boys - fell asleep reading the first chapter header. Nancy was extremely formulaic, but at least she had fun. And I understand they were written by the same person. I think she wrote more interesting female characters.

It was called the Bookworm Club, I was chief worm.

If not, there was a lot going on behind the scenes. No wonder T**** wants to take us back in time.

My mom used to read me The Wind and the Willows.

I want to give it to my granddaughter, but not sure of the right age. I read everything a little early, then, if I liked it, kept reading until I understood it all.

I would like to share a book with her.

Lots of kids were reading them in the early 1960s, when I was in the 5th, 6th, 7th grades. For a while I was reading every "Black Stallion" novel that Walter Farley wrote, until I finally overdosed on them. He was still writing them then, as I recall. About 15 years later they made a wonderful movie of the original novel. debm55, I think you posted this same question some months ago, and I posted the same response.

— Ron
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078872/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520Black%2520S

I devoured the stories, which I found in my dad's shelf of Harvard Classics. This is required reading for anyone who wants to write fiction.

Those books never got checked out of the library by anyone else. If I didn't have them, my sister did, and vice versa.

As I got a little older, it was Journey to the Mushroom Planet. (I was a serious space case--learned the Greek alphabet at age 6 so I could read up on space stuff.)

alphabet and how your book interests matured.

Those really boosted my vocabulary. Brains talked like a college professor on a high.

When I was a sophomore in HS, my English teacher wanted to challenge me, so she gave me "Airport"--the book the movie was based on. I started reading it in study hall, read a chunk in a sociology class that bored me, more on the bus home, and spent the rest of the evening reading it. Finished it in bed around 11pm. 700+ pages of a paperback. My teacher was SHOCKED when I gave it back to her the next morning and told her I finished it.

Actually my parents bought the Tome Life Nature, and Science series. I read them all but a favorite few of them I read more than once.

Then from 11 years on after reading my first SF book of my dad's (even before AWIT) I became a life long SF fan: books, and media.

Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
Eleanor Roosevelt

My favorites were the classics: Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood, Heidi... I also loved the Nancy Drew series. I really need to start reading again! I've thought about revisiting some of these old books I loved so long ago.

read Misty of Chincoteague a million times .

Library. I might see if the library has it now. Still interesting to read it.

True story about a journey by balsa wood raft across the Pacific in the late 40s.

And we had Children’s Encyclopedias that I loved until we got Collier's but I was in Jr. High by then.

I read all of them multiple times.

"The Secret Garden".

The World Book Encyclopedia was bedtime reading. My parents gave it to my sister because she had kids. She threw it out because it was "outdated". I'm still pissed off about that. I learned so much from that.

"Brighty of the Grand Canyon". My only grandmother (actually the only grandparent who was alive) gave it to me. I adored my grandmother, who died when I was eight following a stroke she had in our dining room when she was visiting us. I'm said to look like her mother.

dolls, etc. I was pissed too. Funny thing is, she considers herself a great mother.

One time I found handwritten recipes in the trash basket. Pulled them out because I wanted to keep them.

Was the first one I remember. But I don’t do favorites really.

and Ferdinand the Bull....

slept at her house. And we would walk to the library together to get more books to take out.Thank you for bringing back the
memories of the book and my Aunt. Love you, Debbie.

active participants in WWII...

Mom succeeded in making me a pacifist...Ferdinand was one step...

By Robb White.
About a boy and his dog.

over. I loved them. that you so much for bringing back the memories for me, eppur_se_,muova. I love you! Debbie.

I remember that book!!

Also, All of a Kind Family.

Outwitting tigers, whipping them into butter, eating pancakes….

When I was a child and living in the UK, books were my constant plus I was living in the Chiltern Hills at the time

Then Classics Illustrated which let you read comic books of famous books like "The Three Musketeers" and "Ivanhoe".

I loved the the way the clouds were drawn in "Off On A Comet".

Famous Five series were the first books I read as a child. Thanks for triggering memories.

I have three of the old ones from my childhood

would read Kon-Tiki to us.

Biographies (I remember my favorite was Clara Barton); Billy and Blaze series; we had the How and Why books at home which I poured over. We also had various Little Golden Books at home. I love remembering coming home from the library on summer days with my arms full of books . I would lay out in the shade of the big apple trees on the side yard and read. I love your posts , Deb! Thank you for stirring memories!😊🩷

I read a lot of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books, Rookie Backstop by William Hueman was a favorite, and then, when I was about eleven, I found Robert A Heinlein. That was sixty years ago, and I own at least one copy of everything he (or his wife) ever published.

I grew up during early years of the space race and loved stories about space. Robert Heinlein had a number of books such as:

Space Cadets
Have Spacesuit- Will Travel
Red Planet

One of my favorites.

So many others. Little Women, Beverly Cleary books, Nancy Drew, books on mythology, whatever I could get my hands on.

I was the perfect age in 1957.

First book I ever owned; still have it. 1937 edition.

Bread andJam for Francis (and all other Francis books,) Charlie Brown books.

I think that was the first novel I read all the way through.

A Wrinkle in Time, The Book of Three series, Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Princess and the Goblin, The Back of the Northwind, Little Women, A Rose in Bloom, Eight Cousins, Jo’s Boys, Stuart Little - I read all of these over and over 55-60 years ago, and still do.

I loved the old-fashioned books.

Oh I forgot! My Father’s Dragon and Parsifal Rides the Timewave. The latter is quite obscure.

My beloved third-grade teacher read The Little Lame Prince to us. It’s such a strange melancholy tale, but I loved that, too.

Had the entire collection.

https://www.brandeis.edu/library/archives/exhibits/childrens-literature/todd.html

Tom Swift and Tom Swift Jr. series

Any Stephen King

Any Issac Asimov

Robert Bloch (he wrote the book adaptations of the original Star Trek episodes)

Any Alan Dean Foster

Barsoom (the stories of John Carter on Mars. The first was called 'A Princess Of Mars'.)

Peter Benchley (I read Jaws and The Deep before I was twelve)

The Three Investigators

I used to reread it walking home from grade school in the 70's.

I also enjoyed the Little Prince

And the Madeleine L'Engle books; The Oz series; I, Monty & Hope for the Flowers. There were also some Scholastic Books I enjoyed, but rarely read more than once. Junket is the only name I remember from that series. But there were others about Native American families and sharecroppers' families I kinda remember

And a book called "For the Love of a Donkey"

And I LOVED our Encyclopedia set! It had a companion set of crafts, too, that I enjoyed. And there was a book "how things work, and what to do when they don't" - I loved that one, as well.

True story, I didn't understand alphabetical order until 3rd or 4th grade. I knew the ABC's, it just didn't occur to me that after the first letter, you used the second letter then third to organize things (like is done with numbers).

Still love the Little Prince.

Albert Bigelow Paine's biography of Joan of Arc. It started a lifelong fascination with her.

An older couple want a boy to help on their farm and instead they get the red headed orphan Anne.

Lots of books in the series and the main theme seems to be poor Anne being accused of deeds she never did. Big drama books. I loved Anne.