TTT: Childhood Favorites

Top Ten Tuesday: Some favorite books from my childhood

Note: I had few books and rarely was taken to the library as a child, so some of the books I've listed were read in adolescence when I started using the school library.

1. Little Bear [I can read books] by Else Holmelund Minarik, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
This was my first book. In fact I may have been given it at birth since it was published in 1957, the year I was born. *Yes, I know. I'm old!

2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
I remember this book in the little book shelf in my bedroom, a lonely book by itself. But I read it all the time.

3. Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
My younger sister was given this book written by the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books when she was six. I was five years older than her, so reading it aloud was one of my jobs. I remember loving it so much and wishing I had the book when I was six.

4. Amelia Bedilia by Peggy Parish
I loved this series of silly books playing on turn-of-phrases in English. I loved them when my children were little, too.

5. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
I was always a little frustrated by the messes that the cat made in the home of the children whose mother wasn't home. But the book still provokes warm memories.

6. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
I don't remember if I read this book or if my mother read it to me, but I was quite captivated by the tiny people living in such close proximity to regular-sized people. When I children were little their grandmother gave them the whole series. I don't think I got rid of them, but I cannot find them, which makes me feel sad.

7. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
My best friend's mother gave me this book as a gift. It is such a sweet story by the author who is much more famous for her Ramona books, which I don't remember reading as a kid.

8. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
I read somewhere that this is best-loved children's book ever written. I loved it, too.

9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
I read this book as a 6th grader and LOVED it. I think I made it into every book report or school project for a year or two after reading it.

10. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
I was blown away by this series when I first read it as a preteen. I've since read it three or four times in entirety.

11. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
I'm pretty sure this book was read to us in school. I loved it then and still do.