Which authors did you enjoy reading as a child?

[NIrelandGillian]

c.s. lewis
marilyne peak
walter farley
margerite henry

As I said previously, I read some of C S Lewis's books as a child. I have not, however, come across the other authors you mention.

Gillian

 

[concernlife]

All I remember about reading was that my mother read daily. I caught that from her and read daily. As far as what I read as a kid--- well all I remember is the reader's digest and I still pick them up in every waiting room I am in.

D.

 

[juliepeasandlove]

I loved all the Anne of Green Gables books, although I have forgotten the author's name!

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Madeleine L'Engle was my favorite. A Wrinkle in Time was wonderful, of course, as well as one I haven't seen mentioned here - The Moon By Night, which was one of the Austin family books.

Mary

 

[NIrelandGillian]

Louisa May Alcott was my favorite writer. But of all the books, I think Swiss Family Robinson was my favorite. Especially when I was sad, I would read it. The family closeness portrayed in the book was a great comfort to me.

I enjoyed Louisa May Alcott's books when I was about 10. They were televised round about that time also. Some friends and I thought it would be nice to perform a play of one of the stories. We spent a long time writing out the story of Little Women straight from the book but in drama form, but I forget if we actually performed it. If we did, it would have been just among ourselves. I remember that I got into trouble at school for not getting my homework done. That was because bedtime for me was 7.30 pm and I had spent my homework time working on our play. I think the other girls went to bed a bit late than me, so homework and play writing didn't clash lol.

I never read Swiss Family Robinson. I've seen the film 'Lost in Space', which I believe is based on the story?

Gillian

 

[MissRowy]

i was a big Enid Blyton fan when I was younger...now when I look back...many of her stories are so patronising!
I also liked C.S Lewis as well

 

[NIrelandGillian]

Enid Blyton, Anna Sewell, Louisa M Alcott.

Read a lot of Enid Blyton as a child - even have a book signed by her - long story. My older brother and I read Black Beauty to each other when we were kids, but he kept asking me questions about it which I coudn't answer and he got annoyed with me. It was only a couple of years ago that I read it properly for myself and was able to appreciate it. Loved Louisa M Alcott too - very popular with my friends and me around the age of 10. Some of her books were televised.

Gillian

 

[pgp_protector]

Piers Anthony & Douglas Adams (RIP)

 

[mina]

Edward Eager and E. Nesbit

 

[NIrelandGillian]

I just loved Goosebumps books when I was a kid. I read the first 48 of them. When I was littler I liked Golden Books though, especially The Pokey Little Puppy.

You must be about the same age as my offspring, because they read the Goosebumps books when they were little - don't think they read 48 of them though!

Gillian

 

[WannaWitness]

I don't know, I just enjoyed reading, period. I had books of all kinds, by a variety of authors. I especially favored the Beverly Cleary Ramona series... I must have read them over and over; I just never got tired of them. I liked Judy Blume, as well; she seemed to tackle some of the harder issues of childhood/adolescence.

Other favorite books (by various authors) were:

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

Sixth Grade can Really Kill You

The Shyest Kid in the Patch (one of a series of Cabbage Patch Kid stories; the only one I had).

Countless "Little Golden Books" - one favorite, in particular, was Donald Duck and the One Bear.

There was also a Christian book I liked (but I forgot the title and the author) which was about a boy (appearing to be about 9 or 10) and his relationship to his younger sister who had Down's Syndrome. The story was written in first-person, from the older brother's point of view, and it stood out to me as it had an educational slant and Christian worldview on how to deal with people who are different. I think it was part of the "Arch Book" Christian/Biblical book series, but I'm not sure.

And that doesn't even scratch the surface of the books I liked!

 

[Luna1991]

Another one for Goosebumps! Also loved Enid Blyton. I remember reading a lot of The Babysitters Club & Sweet Valley High books too

 

[MissRowy]

I read The Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High as well! I also read Enid Blyton's Famous Five books

 

[keith99]

Well, I was always a pretty advanced reader...but I think I remember some children's book authors.

C.S. Lewis, I love the Chronicles of Narnia
I read Beverly Clearly, I loved Ramona
I don't remember who writes them, but the magic treehouse books.
Whoever rights Junnie B. Jones
I love Beatrice Potter (I think thats her name?). I loved Peter rabbit and Nutkin.
Dr. Sesus, can't go wrong with green eggs and ham]/b].

In High School there was always a couple of waste days at the end of a semester. Teachers were grading finals and calculating grades (Hmm that may now be reduced, no hand held calculators 45 years ago let alone spreadsheets where all they would need to do is enter the grade on hte final).

One English teacher found a good way to encourage student to be somewhat productive. You could read and turn in book reports for extra credit. I turned in a few and had 15 minutes left, so I wrote one up on "Stop That Ball". I wrote it as if the book was a literary masterpiece, saying the ball symbolized happiness and went from there. Heck Thinking back I may even have been right, it could well have been just as I said.

 

[seashale76]

This kind of spans my childhood (some of these authors I never read until high school), but I was a serious reader towards the end of fifth grade. I checked out books like The Song of Roland from the library, and baffled my parents by raiding their old books and willingly reading things like Chaucer at age twelve. I was not normal when compared to my friends and classmates at the time. My teachers kept me reading, as I tended to finish my work early, experience massive boredom, and then talk too much and get other kids in trouble.

Lewis Carroll
Beatrix Potter
Dr. Seuss
C.S. Lewis
Madeline L’Engle
Roald Dahl
E.B. White
L.M Montgomery
Carolyn Keene (collective pseudonym for the author of the Nancy Drew series)
Franklin W. Dixon
Esther Forbes
William Steig
Katherine Patterson
Jack London
Robert C. O’Brien
Irene Hunt
Scott O’Dell
George Seldon
Elizabeth George Spear
Harold Keith
Robert Lawson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Louisa May Alcott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott
Mark Twain
Arthur Conan Doyle
Howard Pyle
Charles Dickens
Frank Herbert
Orson Scott Card
Isaac Asimov
J.R.R. Tolkien
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Chaucer
George Orwell
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ray Bradbury

 

[NIrelandGillian]

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I didn't come across Laura Ingalls Wilder until the Little House on the Prairie series was aired here in the early '80s. It was only about 10 years ago that I found the books that the series was based on. I enjoyed the series and the books, even though by then I was an adult.

Gillian

 

[NIrelandGillian]

I loved all the Anne of Green Gables books, although I have forgotten the author's name!

I guess you've checked by now, but just in case you haven't, the author's name was Lucy Maud Montgomery. I forget if I read all of the books, but I did enjoy those I did read. There was also a tv series - one of those heartwarming series - which was also very enjoyable. My mother introduced my sisters and me to the books when we were kids and she was trying to encourage us to be helpful around the house. She promised either to give it to us or to read it to us - I forget which - when we had done some helpful thing like wash dishes for a month or something. When we achieved our target and got the book I thought my helping in the home was no longer required and was very confused when I found out otherwise! Gillian

 

[NIrelandGillian]

i was a big Enid Blyton fan when I was younger...now when I look back...many of her stories are so patronising!

I guess they were - she would certainly have been in trouble with the politically correct people for some of her characters - but I was quite surprised when our Brownie leader wouldn't allow us to read any of Enid Blyton's books for our Book Lover's badge!

Gillian

 

[BlueLioness]

When I was a child I read lot of comic books, like Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman.

 

[WannaWitness]

When I was a child I read lot of comic books, like Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman.

Yes, I read comics, too. My comics, however, were mainly of the "cutesy" variety. I had loads of Archie comics, plus a few others here and there that were mainly aimed at girl audiences (Strawberry Shortcake, and such). I did have a Wonder Woman comic sometime in the mid-80s, but I didn't favor it like I did my other comics.