Today I requested from the library...

[Fujiko]

...three Baby-sitters Club books. Because I feel like being nostalgic.

What childhood books would you love to read again, just for the memories?

(Oh, and I also own The Giver by Lois Lowry.)

[Smokering]

Not those. I do love Lois Lowry though!

I reread childhood books all the time. The Anne of Green Gables series and the Little House books need to be reread every year or so. Ditto Watership Down, the Anastasia books and the Chronicles of Narnia.

[SparklingGemini]

I'm going to ditto the Anne of Green Gables series. Love, love, love those!

I read A Wrinkle in Time at least once a year. Its my favorite book. :

I also tend to read a lot of children's and young adult books just because I find them entertaining and unique. I think children's lit is underrated and should be read by more age groups!

[mazajo]

I still have several of my original Babysitter's Club books and I do read them from time to time. I've got a couple Ramona Quimby books too, including a signed copy of Ramona Quimby Age 8 that I got in third grade Not too long ago I checked out The Dollhouse Murders and Wait Til Helen Comes from the library, a couple of my old favorites. I like to read DSD's American Girl books and Junie B. Jones (those I read the same way I look at traffic accidents when I drive past- I didn't like them but I sure read each new one DSD got as quick as I could).

[VeganMamaRed]

There are a lot.....
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The All of a Kind Family books by Sydney Taylor DD loves these books too!
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Little House books
The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Books
Pippi Longstocking

There have been so many books that I have gotten to rediscover and enjoy all over again as I have read them with DD. It brings back such very powerful memories. Certain favorites, like Matilda, I specifically remember where I was the first time I read it (camping with my family) and how hard it was to put down. I remember trying to continue reading as it was getting dark and my dad turning on the lantern and I scurried over to it so I could finish the chapter.

Some of my very favorite books right now are the Harry Potter books, and those are technically kids books.

[3boobykins]

The kids and I have been listening to the Little House audio books on the way to school (wonderful productions, great reader, fiddle music, very, very well done--dh is an audio book editor, so I'm pretty particular), which I read MULTIPLE times as a child. I love "reading" them again. I'm amazed how well I still know them--I know phrases and sentences by heart, and the plots are wonderfully familiar. They've also listened to or I've read to them all the Ramona books, which are also totally nostalgic for me.

[Oriole]

Bambi, by Zalten

[Phoenix~Mama]

I loved the Babysitter books! I had just about all of them... and like a young dummy I gave them away. *sighs* Now I'm going to have to track them down on Ebay and such for my kids. lol

I loved the Ramona books as well... a lot of Judy Bloom books... like Starring Sally J Freeman as Herself.

Manica McGee... definitely the Anne of Green Gables! Charlotte's Web... Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...

I could probably go on and on. lol Oh! The Fear Street series! I had a ton of those too. I was a total book worm as a kid.

[HappilyEvrAfter]

I <3 the Ramona Quimby books.

Freaky Friday was a very loved book when I first read it.

I read the Hobbit really early (at 7/8ish, I think) at my dad's insistance. I made him stop calling me "My precious" after that one. Lol.

[Harper]

Definitely Charlotte's Web. I read it every couple of years. Also A Cricket in Times Square. Rabbit Hill.

[MysteryMama]

My Side of the Mountain

[Sailor]

Nancy Drew - I loved her, I wanted to be her, she was my hero. I was SO disappointed in the spin off series from this - when she went to college, and (gasp) broke up with Ned Nickerson. Then, everyone started having sex ... ugh, totally different than the original series.

I also loved the Babysitters Club, although since I got pregnant, I'm thinking what the heck these parents were doing allowing 14 year olds to babysit their kids, lol. My favorite character was Claudia (I think that was her name) who had candy hidden all over her room, and chocolates in a hollow book. I wore my hair in a pony tail on the side because of those books, lol.

I also loved (and still love enough to re-read as an adult) a Polish series by Musierowicz. There's like 17 books in the series, and she keeps writing more. It's for young teens, and it's the best series I've ever read.

[monkeybars]

I really used to love Judy Blume books, particularly "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" and "Deannie."

[annethcz]

OMG- the Babysitter's Club books!!! How I loved them. I remember ordering the very first book from the Scholastic Book Club at school. I was hooked.

I read a lot of twaddle back in the day. Goosebumps, Sweet Valley (first Sweet Valley Twins, then Sweet Valley High), lots of Lois Duncan (mystery/suspense) and historical romantic fiction. Remembering all of this makes me feel not quite as guilty that my 7yo DD has been reading Hannah Montana and Lizzie McGuire fluff books all summer long.

[vegasgrl]

You are TOTALLY allowed to rip on me, but I read every single Sweet Valley High and then Sweet Valley Twins book I could get my hands on.

I was just thinking last night that I wonder if my girl will "get" Judy Blume books, or if they'll just be too dated. (I think probably too dated. )

I LOVED the Sweet Pickles books. I posted on MDC a few weeks ago asking if anyone had seen them. There are a couple on eBay here and there, but for the most part the Sweet Pickles (and the town map in the front cover!!!) are goners.

[just_lily]

I loved Babysitters Club when I was a kid, but have no interest to read them again.

I really liked Gordon Korman, who is a Canadian author. I have found some of his more recent work in my library, but nothing that I read as a kid. I loved his Bruno and Boots series, and would read The Zucchini Warriors again if I could find it.

I just finished re-reading Harry Potter, but I didn't start that the first time until I was in university. Does that count?

[HappilyEvrAfter]

Oh! I totally forgot about the Sweet Valley High books....read those too!!

[hdeering]

Originally Posted by just_lily

I loved Babysitters Club when I was a kid, but have no interest to read them again.

I really liked Gordon Korman, who is a Canadian author. I have found some of his more recent work in my library, but nothing that I read as a kid. I loved his Bruno and Boots series, and would read The Zucchini Warriors again if I could find it.

I just finished re-reading Harry Potter, but I didn't start that the first time until I was in university. Does that count?

I LOVE Gordon Korman. You can find a lot of his stuff on bookmooch.com. My sister just bought me a rare book called "Bugs Potter: Live at Nickeninny" for my birthday. He's so awesome. Read "No Coins Please", "I Want to Go Home", "Who is Bugs Potter?" and any others of his older stuff you can get your hands on. It's laugh out loud, clean kids books. Oh, and "The Twinkie Squad".

I loved Claudia from BSC too! I always suggested the name to my mom when she was pregnant and got shot down... but she was awesome.

Little House, Anne, Narnia, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, The OZ books, are all in my personal collection. Ok, so I have more kids books than adult...

Oh, and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles are fun too.

I'm a recovering librarian. So sue me.

[Vermillion]

Originally Posted by SparklingGemini

I read A Wrinkle in Time at least once a year. Its my favorite book. :

That's an all time favorite. I was feeling very nostalgic this past winter and read the whole series. Madeleine L'Engle.

Hmm… what are some books I loved as a kid that I want to get around to reading again? Island of the Blue Dolphins (or any Scott O'Dell really…) comes to mind, as well as Where the Red Fern Grows, Bridge to Terabithia, The Island Keeper, Dealing with Dragons, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. I also LOVED the Boxcar Children series and still have all my old copies of them!

[kirstenb]

Originally Posted by HappilyEvrAfter

I <3 the Ramona Quimby books.

Me too! I bought a boxed set about a year ago for DS, who was one at the time. But really, I bought them for me.

Originally Posted by Sailor

Nancy Drew - I loved her, I wanted to be her, she was my hero. I was SO disappointed in the spin off series from this - when she went to college, and (gasp) broke up with Ned Nickerson. Then, everyone started having sex ... ugh, totally different than the original series.

Love Nancy Drew too, I still read all my old books and will pick up new ones if I see them at the used book store. The spin off was okay, but I love the originals.

I still re-read my Little House books and I love the Fudge books by Judy Blume.