Bluto Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Here are my 3 favorites from grade school: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MentschTrachtGottLacht Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 "Watership Down" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonels_Wear_Blue Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 [ATTACH=CONFIG]62740[/ATTACH] I LOVED this book when I was around third or fourth grade. I must have read it about a thousand times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I LOVED this book when I was around third or fourth grade. I must have read it about a thousand times. I just reread my favorite stories from it last year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonels_Wear_Blue Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My great-grandma had a copy of this book from her childhood. She was born in 1903. I really liked reading it when we'd go over to her place when I was little. Nowadays the book is pretty universally panned (as it should be) for its racial stereotypes, but I basically liked the book because everyone ate pancakes made out of tigers at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockmom Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I had an impressive collection of Nancy Drew that I turned to for fluff reading. I had the entire Louisa May Alcott collection Black Beauty was a favorite. But, overall, hands down, my favorite, and the book that has stayed with me in my soul was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonels_Wear_Blue Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) I shared a bedroom with my younger brother growing up, and we both used to ask for this one at bedtime when we were little. Pretty much your everyday children's bedtime story about a witch who had teeth made out of iron so she could eat children...ya know, that old tale. Edited July 11, 2017 by Colonels_Wear_Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonels_Wear_Blue Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) I probably read this one twenty times over my childhood years, literally. A young boy stranded on a tropical island and learning to survive. Eventually inspired me later in life to take an actual survival trip with some of my good college buddies down in the Everglades. Edited July 11, 2017 by Colonels_Wear_Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincySportsFan Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 The Encyclopedia Brown series. Same here. Did you also read The Three Investigors too? Loved both of those series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Same here. Did you also read The Three Investigors too? Loved both of those series. Just Encyclopedia Brown & The Hardy Boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afi100guy Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 2 series that I loved as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumper_Dad Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My elementary school had a large selection of C.B. Colby books that I loved. They were about ships, jets, secret service, FBI, hunting, camping...pretty much everything a boy loves. They were also heavy on pictures, diagrams and plans which I loved. I could look at blue prints or diagrams of a ship or tank for hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Friction Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlDog75 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Curious George Across Five Aprils King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Friction Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Must have read 40 or 50 of these little books when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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