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I used to read even more when I was younger than I do now. I had more spare time than. stare

My favourites where books by Thea Beckman, a Dutch author, who mainly wrote historical romans. I liked the fact that she had a lot of really strong female leads.

I also loved and still love the Wind in the Willows. First book I ever read in English. (I'm bilingual so I learned how to read Dutch at school, but then taught myself how to read English with the Wind in the Willows.)

Aah, typing this is bringing back memories. It's a pity most of the books I read back then I borrowed from the library. So I can't just pick them up and read them again.

EDIT: By the way anybody here love Roald Dahl?

I really enjoy Dahl's work, but I didn't read it until I was out of the suggested age group for his more popular works like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy them now though, and I do enjoy his darker work like Lamb to the Slaughter now.

I totally just had a flashback and remembered The Magic Tree House series. They were all about a brother and sister that had a tree house that brought them to all these different places to have adventures (Eg. a pirate ship, pre-historic times to see dinosaurs). There was also The Time-Warp Trio. I could read both series' books in about a quarter hour now, but I spent hours and hours on them as a child.

Peter Pan was one of my favorites. All children, except one, grow up.” And there is something holy in that one child, whose laugh is “the loveliest of gurgles,” his “first laugh still”: it is the sense of wonder that demarks him. I think it actually affected my intellectual development: it became my goal to have such a sense of respect for the wonder of the universe that I could find myself in the most daunting set of circumstances, and like Peter, dub them “an awfully big adventure,” to be braved by me in order to render them better understood.

I also liked a Series of Unfortunate Events. Very witty, clever literary and historical references, intriguing, well-drawn, and sympathetic characters...it had it all. I hope Daniel Handler will write more books set in the steam-punk universe of the Baudelaires.

Technically, I didn't grow up with The Lord of the Rings (I started it in seventh grade), but it remains a book that I read during what would be termed "childhood." It affected my sense of morality, and I'll probably read the whole thing through again someday. Pretty much my favorite book of all time. 3nodding

I also used to like Harry Potter (I grew up with him, too, as I started reading the series when I was 11 or so), though I probably wouldn't read the series again. It's a fun series, but it didn't change my life or anything.

Unfortunately, no. But I remember that book! I saw it on Reading Rainbow. 3nodding That was such a legit show. Anybody else remember watching it as a kid? Lavar Burton ftw! whee

I liked the Captain Underpants series when I was kid. Haha.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke and Wolf Tower by some-author-or-other.
I was a big reader in elementary school.