Spin-off: Which books did you love as a child

Oh so many, I'm forgetting a ton, I used to read a lot... I apologize for the Swedish titles on some but I'm not sure they've been translated
  • A little princess - I could google the author but I don't have the strenght to, but I think she also wrote the Secret Garden, but I didn't read that one until I was an adult
  • Lots of Astrid Lindgren, H.C. Andersen and Selma Lagerlöf
  • Tordyveln flyger i skymningen - Maria Gripe
  • Dårfinkar och dönickar - Ulf Stark

  • Bombi Bitt och jag - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten

  • Nancy Drew books (called Kitty here)

  • Sweet Valley High books

  • Berts dagbok (book series about a young guy named Bert, in diary format)

Also, my older sister had a book by a Norwegian author (Gaarder?) called Sofies värld (Sofie's world), I did read in that one a lot, but it was probably a bit too deep for me back then. Maybe I should re-read it now!
 
Professor Walsh
Professor Walsh
"Sofies Verden" is just textbook in disguise, if you ask me. Sweet Valley High karma!
Mr. Pole said:
Why? Not why did you like them, why was it changed to Kitty? Was it Kitty Drew? Or just Kitty, like... Cher.
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I have no idea, it was Kitty Drew, but why it was Kitty I've never known... So I looked it up and apparently there is no official reason, just the theory from the publishers office that the name Nancy was out of style when the books came here. In Finland she's apparently called Paula Drew, and in France Alice Roy.
 
So I guess it's official... everyone but the US hates the name Nancy. 😛
 
Skanky Vamp
Skanky Vamp
Susanne Langen in Germany
So many books. So much love. These are a few that left a long lasting impression on me as a young bookworm. I'll write the Norwegian title
"Frendeløs" ("Nobody's Boy") by Hector Malot
"Allerkjæreste søster" ("Most Beloved Sister") by Astrid Lindgren (and so many other of her books)
"Den hemmelige hagen" ("The Secret Garden) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Skyggen over steinbenken" ("Skuggan över stenbänken" in Swedish, I don't know if it was translated to English) by Maria Gripe

... And so many others. The library was my haven. I belonged there.
 
As a real youngster - Snuggle pot and cuddle pie
Possum magic was a regular.
Enid Blyten, the wishing chair was the first novel I read on my own. I am the type of person who will seek out all works of that particular author and I did that with her and a a few more.
The adventures of Blinky Bill, although I dont remember the author.
My friend Flicka, which I would love to re-read
Emily Rodda - she wrote fantasy series and I read everything the library had, then ordered more on book club.
 
Professor Walsh
Professor Walsh
Ooooh. Flicka. <3 (And Enid Blyton, too.)
Slayerofslayers said:
What did you think of the one you read? The books are way better than the show they got a lot of things wrong and changed a lot of plot points lol but I'm curious to what you thought of the show since you didn't read the books.
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Well I was like 10 so I didn't really notice plot points. I remember loving it, I liked the characters, I thought the point was intriguing and I logged the mystery of it. I'm sure if I read the books and watched the show now, I wouldn't enjoy it as much.
 
I can't edit my post, so here comes an addition: "The Magician's Nephew" (C. S. Lewis) belongs on the list. So does the rest of the series, but that one was the first, the reading adventure where I had no idea what the book had in store.
 
Fuffy Baith said:
Well I was like 10 so I didn't really notice plot points. I remember loving it, I liked the characters, I thought the point was intriguing and I logged the mystery of it. I'm sure if I read the books and watched the show now, I wouldn't enjoy it as much.
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lol yeah the show definitely because the acting and special effects are very cheesy and bad lol but for me the books still hold up even today as an adult.
 
My favourite kids book is called Jip en Janneke by Annie M.G. Schmidt. This woman was a national hero basically.

Another book was Oorlogs Winter by Jan Terlouw. This is a story about a boy who lived through the hunger winter in 1944 in the Netherlands.

Blauwe plekken by Annie de Vries. It is a story about abuse and is very controvesial here in the Netherlands.

Kruistocht in spijkerbroek by Thea Becken(?) Which is about a Dutch teen being transported back to the crusades in the 13th century. The title literally means Crusade in jeans!

De brief van de koning (the letter from the king). This is about a kid who has to deliver this letter and faces a bunch of trials and pretty messed up stuff.

Finally, Minoes! A cat that is turned into a woman. I love this book so much!
 
thrasherpix said:
When I was 12, I read Z for Zachariah (the movie that came out sounds very different) which was nightmarish for me (a girl is, as far as she knows, the lone survivor from a nuclear war, living on her own as I'd have loved to have done, when a scientist arrives and becomes increasingly sadistic and controlling of her until she's forced to leave), certainly not the feel good book of the year.
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Oh we had to read that as part of our English study course! I loved how it captured her feeling of unease. It was a tense book.

The only other book I remember from school, though much younger, was Vlad the Drac. It was about a mischievous baby vampire lol.
 
November
November
Vlad the drac is a tv show here - related?
I do recall reading a book for school about a kid called Dustin and a crocodile in the sewers..... does anyone else remember it?
 
Professor Walsh said:
I can't edit my post, so here comes an addition: "The Magician's Nephew" (C. S. Lewis) belongs on the list. So does the rest of the series, but that one was the first, the reading adventure where I had no idea what the book had in store.
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I dont remember reading that one, but Narnia was prevalent in my childhood. We were so naughty as a class during library that she gave up reading it and put the movie on - but the scene where the youngest says "I've never had tea with a fawn before" with her little buck teeth had us in hysterics. For like, 2 years it was a running joke at school. Drove the librarian mad.

I cant believe I forgot Winnie the Pooh, I still have my first box set haha.

School books seemed boring to me. The first disturbing type I read was Checkers at 12 by John Marsden, I am still obsessed with his books.
 
Oddly enough no. I did enjoy reading at School I remember but maybe didn't do it so much at home until a later age or maybe I just don't remember too well😱
 
Goosebumps, Animorphs, Harry Potter, The Worst Witch, The Famous Five books. A series called Animal Ark by Lucy Daniels I think? I had loads of those, about a girl that lived at a vet centre and had all these animals that came in or she found.
 
Definitely more votes from me to the Goosebumps series, Astrid Lindgren and H.C. Andersen. Other than that, my mom raised me on crime novels and I've been reading Stephen King for as long as I can remember.
 
When I was a tiny kid, I used to devour the Mickey Mouse comics. But when I became 8, I began reading Oliver Twist and all of the Agatha Christie detective books.
 
The Folk of the Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton (I still have the huge book from my childhood, will never part from it)
The Magic Porridge Pot
Charlottes Web
Grimms Fairytales. Especially The Frog Prince (I always really wanted the gold ball the princess always played with)
also loved Snow White and Rose Red. Rumplestiltskin.
Goosebumps (I still have all my books)
Georges Marvelous Medicine.
The Twits
BFG
I had a big box of books which were apart of a series. I loved them sooo much. The art was just soo beautiful. They were all hardbacks and only recently (year or 2 ago) gave them to my niece who was getting into books, she has gotten really good at reading now. Think they were called Serendipity books.
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WillowFromBuffy
Hehe! Muffin muncher...
Many of my favourites have already been mentioned, except Brødrene Løvehjerte, Mio, Min Mio, Ronja Røver Datter and Pippi Langstrømpe, the original vampire slayer.
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Astrid Lindgren is where it's at.
 
WillowFromBuffy said:
Many of my favourites have already been mentioned, except Brødrene Løvehjerte, Mio, Min Mio, Ronja Røver Datter and Pippi Langstrømpe, the original vampire slayer.
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Astrid Lindgren is where it's at.
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I have such pleasant memories of watching the kids movies based on both this and Ronja Røverdatter, I cried like a baby (which, I kinda was, very young)
 
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