day 9: favorite books from childhood

[destina]

13 days of happy things, day 9! Today I'm going to list twenty of my favorite books from my childhood. (I read most of these books before I turned 10, though some were written for middle-school kids or teens.) Many of these books featured a strong female protagonist, which I didn't realize until I was much, much older. (My sneaky mom and her sneaky

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[nerthus]

I still have my childhood copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond (price on the cover was something like 50 cents, ha); loved that book as a child and I re-read it from time to time. I also loved Five Little Poppers and the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I also loved Pippi Longstocking, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series, which was a series of books featuring 3 boys, Bob and Pete and Jupiter, who had a secret hideout in a junkyard and who solved crimes, ha; I had this book called The Mysterious Bender Bones that for some reason I just loved, and one of my faves I would read over and over was The Secret Garden. The very first book I can ever recall receiving was the first and original Curious George book; I have few memories of my really early childhood but I do recall being not quite 3 and carrying that book with me everywhere till it was torn and raggedy. One of my earliest fave toys was a stuffed monkey (not George, just a chimp with white shoes painted on its feet and red suspenders, holding a banana which was part of its hand and not removable, ha; when I was 4 and in the hospital in an oxygen tent and almost died from pneumonia with a temp of 108, that monkey stayed right by me in the bed and the nurses would pretend to be startled by it and that amused me. Had to have Curious George read to me over and over in the hospital!)

[nerthus]

Ugh, Peppers, not Poppers, ha; can't type correctly today! But hey, Mr Popper's Penguins, another good one! My daughter is a penguin fanatic, she loves that one.

[destina]

Hmmm, I wonder if I ever read that Alfred Hitchcock series you mention? I don't remember it. I did read all his ghost story and thriller books for kids, those old anthologies; I have a couple I found at used book sales and I will never part with them because they are hard to find nowadays.

The Secret Garden is another of my faves, tho I liked it less than A Little Princess. I felt I had to choose. And so I did. *g*

Wow, that is a powerful memory associated with Curious George. And your stuffed monkey. Just goes to prove that books and the characters in them are the purest comfort to kids.