Just wondering. I'm writing books for kids and teens, and want to know books you guys read when you were growing up and still remember fondly. Any that are listed I will check out and read if I have not read them before.
For me, Animorphs/goosebumps, books by Bruce Coville(Aliens ate my homework, etc), Harry Potter, etc
I'm going to go a little bit younger and say the book about the lady swallowing the fly, then she ended up swallowing other animals and then dieing at the end.
Does anyone remember that one? I looked like a complete weirdo trying to explain it, tell me I'm not alone.
i loved Harry Potter when i was younger, but as i grew up i started to hate those. I guess i've never read any kiddy books, my favorite was probably Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne which i read when i was 8.
I love(d) the Hardy Boys and the Judy Bloom books Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing, SuperFudge, and Fudgemania, as well as her book Then Again Maybe I Won't. They're some of my all time favourites, even today. When I got towards the end of Grade school (when I was 13 or 14) I started reading Michael Crichton, and still do.
Animorphs was the mad note. Most underread kids series and underread sci-fi story of all time. It easily competes with any other major sci-fi property in both depth of the world and depth of the characters.
I never got into Goosebumps the way other kids did, I liked the ones I read though, especially the early ones.
There's a very under-the-radar kids series called Ghost Twins that came out when I was 10, only went for 8 books but it was awesome. You should definitely look it up if you're looking for some background reading.
"I'm going to go a little bit younger and say the book about the lady swallowing the fly, then she ended up swallowing other animals and then dieing at the end.
Does anyone remember that one? I looked like a complete weirdo trying to explain it, tell me I'm not alone."
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly; that's an OLD classic!
any and everything by roald dahl. i can still pick anything of his up and read it now, which i cant say about a lot of other things. went through all the goosebumps as a kid as well, and you just reminded me that i actually own a bruce corville book, 2 actually: my teacher is an alien and my teacher fried my brains [had to go drag out of the bottom of the pile, but its still there]
i used to have have all the thomas the tank engine books as well, but they all got carted out to the new kid in the family whenever anyone had a baby
my book collection now pretty much consists of dahl, king, joyce, burroughs & a few autobiographies thrown in to boot
when I was like 13 I read this book called Hatchet like 5 times. It's about some kid whose the only survivor of a plane crash in the middle of a forest and has to survive with only a hatchet.
Well I did start reading Kurt Vonnegut when I was like 14 (Slaughter House 5 was Fantastic) and Ayn Rand when I was 15 (The Fountainhead was fantastic as well and I'm currently trying to finish Atlas Shrugged). But of course I also read the Goosebumps books, who didn't?
WaterShip Down(I think.. the rabbit story) Dune I, robot Foundation A whole crap load of Choose your own adventure books Scary stories to tell in the dark
"I'm going to go a little bit younger and say the book about the lady swallowing the fly, then she ended up swallowing other animals and then dieing at the end.
Does anyone remember that one? I looked like a complete weirdo trying to explain it, tell me I'm not alone."
Haha, yeah I remember reading that one in like 1st grade. Can't remember the title though.
"Captain Underpants awww yeah but eventually I matured and recently read Bourne Betrayal"
Haha Captain Underpants FTW!"
Yeah always found it funny jokes about poop .
Milkman said:
"Shawn said:
"I'm going to go a little bit younger and say the book about the lady swallowing the fly, then she ended up swallowing other animals and then dieing at the end.
Does anyone remember that one? I looked like a complete weirdo trying to explain it, tell me I'm not alone."
Haha, yeah I remember reading that one in like 1st grade. Can't remember the title though."
I also remember that one but dont rember the name kinda of a sad story for kids
"I'm going to go a little bit younger and say the book about the lady swallowing the fly, then she ended up swallowing other animals and then dieing at the end.
Does anyone remember that one? I looked like a complete weirdo trying to explain it, tell me I'm not alone."
That book is the greatest! I remember having teachers that read that story over and over. Boy, was she fat.
I remember the Little Critter books when I was little, as well as Berenstein Bears, Dr. Seuss books, and stuff like that. When I got older I also loved Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, the Supernaturalist, Heir Apparent, Lord of the Rings, House of the Scorpion, and The Ear, The Eye, And The Arm.
Goosebumps, Little House on the Prairie Series, Harry Potter starting in middle school, I really liked holes even though I was in like 8th or 9th grade at that time...
Indeed. I loved the ones where you picked where the story went. I miss those books. "Turn to page 86 if you jumped in the airplane. Turn to page 90 if you didn't."
Well, it all depends. As a "little" kid I liked See Spot Run, and as a rather "young" child I liked quite a lot of different books. Don't think I could really pinpoint one for sure....
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