Here are my 3 favorites from grade school:

 

 

 

"Watership Down"

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I LOVED this book when I was around third or fourth grade. I must have read it about a thousand times.

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!!

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.

 

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

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, 20179 yr by Colonels_Wear_Blue

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, 20179 yr by Colonels_Wear_Blue

The Encyclopedia Brown series.

 

Same here. Did you also read The Three Investigors too? Loved both of those series.

Same here. Did you also read The Three Investigors too? Loved both of those series.

 

Just Encyclopedia Brown & The Hardy Boys.

2 series that I loved as a kid.

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.

Curious George

 

Across Five Aprils

 

King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable

Must have read 40 or 50 of these little books when I was a kid.