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    The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare.
    For some reason, I've been thinking bout it lately...as in a desire to read it again. It's just one of those early books that have always stuck with me. Its so random, all I did was pick it up at those elementary scholastic book fairs. Now I can't seem to get rid of it.

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    I remember being quite fond of Dinosaur Roar. Read it to my kindergarten class. I've always liked dinosaurs...


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    Everything by Astrid Lindgren- especially Karlsson, stories about Emil from Lonneberga and "Mio, my Mio"

    A bit later came Alfred Szklarski series about Tomek
    And after that there were Julel Vernes and Dumas

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    Jules Verne, Theodore Dreiser- An American Tragedy

    but my favorites in 5th grade... Tuck Everlasting and The Giver
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    As I may have mentioned elsewhere - I started out on Little Women and reread it many many times.

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    I always loved the Little Critter series by Mercer Mayer.
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    oh it has to be Heidi or Little Women - brilliant!

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    Ronia Daughter of the Bandit by Astrid Lingren. (In spanish it was Ronja, la hija del bandolero)
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    My favorites were and stil are:

    Wizard of Oz (My first real chapter book)
    "Little House" books (Loved the show, had to read the books)
    Anything by Roald Dahl, especially Chocolate Factory, Matilda,and Danny, Champion of the World
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    the Nancy Drew series.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bouquin View Post
    the Nancy Drew series.
    I read them too, all those I could find in the library They were my favourites when I was 7 and 8 years old

    I started reading books at the age of 6, but I can't remember which of my favourite books I actually read myself for the first time, since my father used to read to me and my brother even when we both had already learned to read ourselves.

    I do remember liking Narnia and Montgomery's and Alcott's books, I still like to re-read them every now and then.
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    I didn't read a lot when i was a kid, only things related to school, i was not reading for my personal pleasure, but even though i've enjoyed and still enjoy Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint Exupéry which is a book in French for a French author, of course, i've also read Alice in Wanderland.
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    I very much grew up on Russian Folk Tales. I loved those simple stories, the adventures of Illia of Mourum who caught the whistling highwayman, Nakita the Tanner who killed the horrible dragon with his dagger, Baba Yaga the witch whose hut stood on chiken-feet. I loved those stories. Then I moved on to Edgar Rice Burroghs' Tarzan in four volumes, read a lot of Adventure Series by Willard Price and also read Hardy Boys books.

    My ten year old son is reading the Redwall series these days. He has already read 12 volumes back to back. He loves them. He asked a strange question the other day, "These books are great. Harry Potter series is not that great. I wonder why people like it so much?" This gave me a chance to explain the concepts of 'marketing' and 'hype' to a ten year old. I am sure he will never forget this lesson.
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    The Narnia Books,
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    I remember being around 11 years old, and living in a social demographic that associated reading for the mere pleasure of it as a thing for the educated and/or rich. I was in the fifth grade, and our teacher read us Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows. I was mesmerized, and hooked. I hung on every word. From then on, in school, I was a regular visitor to the library and checking out the books no one else wanted to read. Before I was in high school, I had read much of Hemingway, Jack London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (modern english translations, of course). When it came time to do book reports, I usually was the first with one.

    During my 10th year, my English teacher spent the last 15 minutes of class just reading us mythology. She was chastised and eventually terminated because of this. Baptist town associated such things with religion, and mythology was anathema to them. But again, I loved it, and now gravitate to books with mythological depth about them.

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