Celebrate Young Readers Week!

What was your favorite book as a child?

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  1. reiko-e5-hettenhausen185 reblogged this from todaysdocument
  2. artofsleeping answered: “White Fang” Jack London
  3. saipanbrad answered: Almost any Which Way book
  4. 29kites answered: The Giving Tree
  5. tinapa answered: I’ve always read Archie comics as a child, but I do remember the first book I’ve ever read. It’s Papa’s Angels. I loved it!
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  7. proofitgood answered: The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
  8. warcaster answered: Aces of World War II… stole it from the library at school. Hadn’t been checked out since 1964. Lost it when I moved to Kentucky. :(
  9. msmiciela answered: If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin… if you mean “child, lilke 7 or 8” it was Charlotte’s Web
  10. bookwoman84 answered: Quest for a Maid, by Frances Mary Hendry. Mainly because it had one of the best first lines I’d ever seen.
  11. thefarray answered: The Big Flood in the Bush by Ruth Dallas
  12. katiequist answered: Where the sidewalk ends
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  14. samekindofbadasme answered: The Phantom Tollbooth
  15. jezsiema answered: anything written by Enid Blyton! :)
  16. cmisunas answered: Harriet the Spy
  17. crypticwolfe answered: Harriet the Spy
  18. pentagram-perfect answered: djfalkdjf so many. when i was really little - The Color Kittens xD
  19. kaiyves answered: Animorphs and Harry Potter.
  20. lexestrex answered: My Father’s Dragon, Eloise, Nancy Drew…too many to count!
  21. notdorothy answered: “Year of Impossible Goodbyes”
  22. sharkishai answered: Classroom at the end of the Hall
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    I don’t think I can pick one favorite, not only because I read a lot, but because childhood is kind of a long time. I...
  26. thesaru answered: Pinocchio! :)
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  28. thingsjustbecause answered: My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
  29. callmeishmish answered: I Am a Kitten by Ole Risom
  30. museum-meanderings answered: In the third grade I was reading The Three Investigators books. By sixth, I’d moved on to Stephen King. My favorite was ALL of them.
  31. cdavis1984 answered: James and The Giant Peach
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  34. speakno answered: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
  35. emmybuns696 answered: Tamora Pierce novels! God, I LOVED them!
  36. mypurpose answered: Are you my mother
  37. inisfree answered: Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. It is a Metropolitan Museum of Art publication—very inspiring!
  38. thegirlblogger answered: I remember feeling so accomplished when I read Harriet the Spy, it was the largest title I tackled as a 3rd grader. Love it still.
  39. ofsmokyburgundy answered: The House with the Clock in Its Walls
  40. scarletbooksandthoughts answered: Island of the Blue Dolphins!!!