7 Responses to "Favorite Book from Childhood?"
2 | carrieknapp
January 16, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Hi Allison! My favorite book was a Richard Scarry Treasury. And it was so fun that I was able to find a reprint to share with my own kids. Even though they both loved also the Thomas the Tank Engine treasury. And my favorite to read to them was “I am a bunny.” and there was one, a little golden book, called The Egg Book . . . I loved that one.
Allison
January 18, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Thanks for sharing your favorite books! Most of my picture books went to my siblings to have while they were growing up. One book with which I never parted was Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. I should review it here. 
3 | Allison
January 15, 2012 at 2:57 am
Thanks for sharing your favorite books! I have enjoyed reading them too, especially Alive. You and I have even see a couple movies based on it.
Andy Frederick
January 19, 2012 at 3:29 pm
It must be said that the movie from 1993 doesn’t do the story justice. (The other movies about the incident have been documentaries, I believe.) I think it’s very difficult for a two-hour movie to capture a seventy-day ordeal. I think a TV mini-series would do a much better job.
Anyone who has neither read the book or seen the movie, therefore, should start with the book. After that, they can feel free to avoid the movie. 
4 | Andy Frederick
January 11, 2012 at 8:50 pm
When I was around four or five years old, my favorites were: Space Carnival: The Story Behind Our Space Trips, and The Monster at the End of This Book. The latter is still in print because it’s so awesome (I still love the pictures of Grover’s attempts to keep kids from turning the pages and of the after effects of their having done so anyway, and the ending is great), so everyone is probably familiar with it. The Space Carnival is so out of print that I can’t even find any pictures of it, nor are there any copies on Ebay. But I did manage to get ahold of one a few years ago. It too is awesome, if you can ever find one. A boy goes to a space carnival, and the reader uses a spinner to decide what happens to him next.
When I was older, I was in love with the Danny Dunn science-fiction-adventure series. Time travel, smallifying machines, swamp monsters, invisibility, anti-gravity. Great stuff. Also not in print, of course, but easily obtained from Amazon sellers and Ebay and the like.
You know you’re old when your favorite books are no longer in print.
Now, you did ask our favorite books from childhood, not our favorite CHILDREN’S books. So… When I was a teen, my favorite book was Alive, by Piers Paul Read, which tells the true story of a plane full of rugby players that crashed in the middle of the Andes in 1972. The MIDDLE of the Andes. Surrounded by nothing but mountains and snow. After surviving for two full months on very little nourishment, two of the survivors set out to rescue themselves. Seventy-two days after the crash, a Chilean farmer spied a ragged man across a roaring river. The man threw the farmer a rock with a note that began: “I come from a plane that fell in the mountains. I am Uruguayan.” There is no greater story of survival. As a teen I read it three years in a row while out camping in the blazing heat of summer, and it never failed to whisk me away to the frozen Andes. Every few years I have to read it again.
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April 22, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Trixie Beldon Series. I wanted to be Trixie!
April 22, 2012 at 9:55 pm
I liked those too and felt disappointed that our library carried only a few of them.