What books do you remember most clearly from childhood?

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The Qwange-Wangle's hat, anyone? The seventies were a time for wierd, drug-inspired children's lit. No wonder we turned out as we did.

― Caroline (Caro), Friday, 2 July 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

The Great Auk. Told the story of the last of a now extinct species. I still thrill to the description of it learning to fish.

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Read it in seventh grade. Was so stared I stayed up all night - reading it.

Johnny Tremaine - is somewhat criticised for being dull. I remember identifying closely with the protagonist.

Mother Night - Vonnegut captured me early, and I had read most of his stuff by nighth grade.

― Robert Burns, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dune. Oddly enough. I remember many scenes more clearly than any other book I have ever read.

― Jessa (Jessa), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Little Prince

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Moomins, and a few years later Andre Norton and Heinlein.

I can still visualise the illustrations from Moomintrolls winter adventures.

― DFM (DFM), Thursday, 22 July 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Mainly because in third grade we read it as part of class, then did a play on it, then saw the movie (which I don't remember liking).

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

In the Chronicles of Narnia, I best remember The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. By far, my favorite.

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Two novels by Bruce Coville, both about a teacher who turned out to be an alien (I think one of them was called something like, "My Teacher Fried My Brains!"). I remember, specifically, a scene aboard a spaceship in which the narrator encountered a machine that could produce literally anything he thought of - e.g., a skateboard, a hamburger, a pair of sneakers. I haven't found the passage since (and I've looked), but I remember it as the first time a book ever really made my heart pound.

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I can answer this honestly. I've made a concerted effort to keep, buy or at least read again all the many wonderful books from my childhood. I'm not sure which vivid memories of those books are the originals now. Maybe Mrs Piggle-Wiggle?

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" - I read it when I was ten and I loved it. I remember I had an edition with coloured pictures.

― Alina (Alinette), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

E Nesbit
Tintin
Bearenstein Bears

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Watership Down" by Richard Adams.

― Mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bridge to Terebithia
Where the Red Fern Grows

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle

― Hiba, Saturday, 31 July 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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