What did you read when you were young?

Question

What did you read when you were young?

Answer 1

Like how young?Elementary?

In elementary I read Junie B. Jones books,like in second grade.I grew out of those books really quick,although they were pretty good.

In Middle School I read Goosebumps,the freaky stories by R.L. Stine.I also read Harry Potter books,and I'm sure you know what Harry Potter is.I also enjoyed reading different stories by R.L. Stine,and not just Goosebumps.I liked Horrorland.

Cheers.

Answer 2

Sweet Valley High

Nancy Drew

Hardy Boys

Hershey Herself

Child Craft books

Archie Comics

Matilda

Meet The Moffats

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Answer 3

As a child all I read were fairy tale collections, mythology books from different countries and abridged adventure classics like Ivanhoe, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Montecristo, etc.

Answer 4

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn..Silas Marner..Big Red..The American Girl Books among others

Answer 5

The first books I remember reading (other than things like Spot Goes To School and The Owl That Was Afraid Of The Dark) were Enid Blyton books. After that it was Famous Five, Secret Seven and Hardy Boys. Then around age 9 or 10 I got into Steven King and James Herbert.

When at secondary school I lost interest in reading for pleasure because of all the books I had to read for school, most of which I didn't like (Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd was one I particularly disliked; it's really not my kind of book), though I did enjoy one or two, Lord Of The Flies for instance.

I soon got back in to reading when I became an adult, and now I mainly enjoy epic fantasy sagas.

Oh yeah, and I just remembered a series of books I read around the same time as Famous Five etc. They were by Willard Price and always called (something eg volcano, jungle...) Adventure, and the main characters were Hal and Roger Hunt. Wow I had forgotten about them for a long time...

Answer 6

The Beano

Answer 7

I had a huge collection of Enid Blyton - all politically in correct now!

I liked fairy stories, Mrs Pepperpot, The Silver Sword, Swallows and Amazons, My Naughty Little Sister, The Dolls House by Rummer Godden, which they have just re-printed, so just had to get a copy again!

Answer 8

Everything lol.

But I really liked the Magic Tree House series in first grade.

I didn't spend too much time on picture books, to be honest with you.  I started reading when I was four, and by the time I was in kindergarten I was reading those really thin chapter books with big fonts and small words.

In first grade I was reading Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones.

After that I just pretty much read anything I could get my hands on. =)

Answer 9

pony pals! lol very shameful!

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omg just read someone elses and that reminded me of little golden books! they were fricken awesome! haha that justs makes me think even more... "there's a hippopotamus on my roof eating cake" was like soooo awesome! and spot! and wheres wally! but they all like when i couldn't really read just when mum used to read to me.

yeah adding on to pony pals... during that stage of my life it was like emily eye finger, max remy, this other one about this chick who used to travel through time and i came with necklaces and stuff and all those awful books which i don't like to admit to lol

Answer 10

I read Treasure Island when I was about 10 and loved it. I also read Great Expectations by Dickens and couldn't put it down.

Answer 11

Lady Chatterley's Lover, never been able to look at flowers the same way since.

Answer 12

Enid Blyton

I read almost all her books about 20 i think or maybe 15 not sure now lol

The magic far away tree!

Thats the one that'll always stick in my head, i imagined the world perfectly as a kid,,, ahhhh the joys of being young and innocent :)

Answer 13

Anything by Roald Dahl - absolutely loved his books

Answer 14

I first read Junie B. Jones, when I was in first grade. And then I read The Magic Tree House in second and third grade, and in fourth grade and fifth grade, I read Animal Ark. And in sixth grade I started reading single books, not series.  

Answer 15

I used to read Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl books,Garfield, and  when I was a teen I read all the point horror stories

Answer 16

I loved stories about other girls, like 'Little Women', 'Anne of Green Gables', 'What Katy Did', etc etc. My favourite was 'Jane Eyre. Went through a Blyton phase with the Secret Seven and the Famous Five, but being class-conscious from an early age, soon found all that a bit cringe-worthy! As a teen, I relished all the naughty stuff of the time like 'Peyton Place' and the novels of D H Lawrence. In my mid-teens, I got into Collete and Zola as I loved the French lifestyle and culture. Then I went all Irish with Oscar Wilde and Edna O' Brien [ back to other girls again!]

Answer 17

The first "chapter" book I ever had was The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, and I loved it.  If I read it once, I read it at least 50 times.  I also read Nancy Drew and a lot of Enid Blyton's work.  It wasn't yesterday.

Answer 18

My favorite childhood books were written by Lenora Mattingly Weber (preferably the Beanie Malone series).  I also enjoyed the Pippi Longstockings books.  For my mystery fix, I enjoyed Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.  

When my daughter was younger she was an avid reader of Raold Dahl books and also the Shel Silverstein books.  Shel Silverstein can't be beat!  

My nieces and nephews prefer the Harry Potter series and also the Lemony Snicket books.

Answer 19

Without a doubt anything by Enid Blyton, over and over again!

Also Richmal Crompton - Just William books.

Answer 20

     Good old s****. Doo!!!  Absolutely!  The Beano, the Wizard.  Then Sherlock Holmes, Blackwood for ghost stories, Bram Stoker's 'Dracula.'  Basically like another gentleman has just said.  Anything I could get my grubby little hands on!

Good luck

Mike B

Answer 21

Anything I could get my grubby little hands on.

I particularly liked the Madeline series when I was tiny.

Answer 22

The first books i read were the Noddy books, then i went on to The Famous five series. After that i read Little Women.  

Answer 23

The Babysitters Club

i had them all

Answer 24

Doctor Zeus , Little golden books .

Answer 25

I distinctly remember always borrowing Tintin and Asterix comic books from the library with my brothers when I was about 4 or 5. There is a gap... and I remember Charlotte's Web in about Yr 3, The Farseer Triology by Robin Hobb and Magician by Raymond E. Feist in the same year or maybe the next one after that (which made me 9). Love that book...

The only reason I ever read those whoppers (The Farseer Triology was spread over about 2 years) was because my much elder brother read them then dumped them onto me so he could save space. I supposed he was the one that was responsible for developing my extreme love of reading....

Answer 26

i am still young

i am 11 and i luv reading barington stoke books!!

Answer 27

I loved Roald Dahl books and read the babysitters club also still got them too Im 27 now ha ha  

Answer 28

Anything by Stephen King, The Thorn Birds, anything by Jacqueline Suzanne (I really dated myself with that one), The Shellseekers, anything by Rosemary Rogers (romance), and anything by that woman who has had most of her books made into movies for Lifetime. Can't think of her name just now.

Answer 29

Enid Blyton, then I progressed to Agatha Christie.

Answer 30

Man... everything I could! But I most remember:

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper

Every Roald Dahl Book

L.J. Smith's terrible but great vampire and witch series

Christopher Pike Books

Judy Blume

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Lord of the Flies

The Outsiders

A Wrinkle in Time

.... and a lot of stuff that was on my mom's bookshelf that I didn't really understand.