The Boxcar Children series was my very favorite. The author, Miss Warner, lived down the street from me. When I was in the fourth grade, I wrote a story which my teacher gave to Miss Warner to read. I had to go to her house to pick it up. It was a highlight for me to meet her.
My Favorite was Charlotte’s Web. I still have (40 years later) my original copy. and then, anything Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary. Also loved loved loved the Serendipity Books.
Boxcar Children was absolutely my favorite. I was very very lucky growing up. We had a librarian in the children’s section of the library who took a shine to me. She would set aside new books for me to read, and she was always encouraging me to read books “older” than I was. I was at the library once a week after Brownies, and then Girl Scouts. The troops met right across the street from our library. That was the best day of the week for me!!!
Did you have the records? Do you remember Mouse Soup? I can remember the songs from the Frances books, “Best Friends for Francis”: Fat boys that eat too much lunch can’t do a thing but munch and crunch and play with snakes and frogs!” 😆😆
Always and forever The Little House books. There is never a week I don’t read a few chapters, and the entire series at least once a year. I read other things, if course, but nothing brings me the joy, peace, and comfort of Laura. Xoxoxo
I LOVED these books! I even had the map so I could follow their adventures and everything lol. I bought a bunch of used ones for my soon-to-arrive baby girl at the last book sale I went to. I hope she loves them as much as I did!
My first exposure to “big kid books”( we didn’t use the phrase “chapter book” back then)was my third grade teacher reading the boxcar children aloud. I enjoyed reading it, it’s sequels and so many others to my own children- so many favorites!!
Anyone else ever read books by Ruth Chew? She was my favorite! Her books were about magic and witches- usually kind of quirky witches living in New York.
I also loved the Boxcar Children. I didn’t know it was a series then though. I checked it out of the Library so many times that the Librarian finally told me I couldn’t anymore since I was not giving others a chance to read it. I have my own copy today.
For some unknown reason I read the Frank Meriwell series. At our library you could only check one book a week for each person in family. I was the only person in our family reading therefore I got to check seven books a week
Little House on the Prairie, Nancy Drew, Lassie, Black Beauty, Lad..a dog, Ribsy, all the Judy Blume books, The Dandelion series, The Children’s Bible, Dr. Suess, The Cricket in Times Square, Heidi, Chincateauge, Make way for ducklings, any Scholastic book, Madeline, and of course Amelia Bedelia!!! Too many to count!!! 🙂
Cherry Ames for sure. I also loved Sue Barton series which were older when I was young! Let us not forget the most wonderful series about Beany Malone by Lenora Mattingly Weber!
My mom was a First Grade teacher and there was a reading book that had fairy tales and folk stories in it. I can’t recall the publisher though, maybe Scott Foresman: The Bremen Town Musicians, King Midas, The Gingerbread Man, Rumpelstiltskin, Stone Soup, Snow White and Rose Red, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Hansel and Gretel… I adored that book.
You have named so many! Never heard of this one, but I got really into Paul Zendel (sp). He did Pardon Me you’re Stepping on my Eyeball and My Darling My Cheeseburger. Both I remember loving but couldn’t tell you the plot today.
Our teacher read the first one to us and many of us read all of them checking them out from the school library and discussing the books at recess.Great books!
The Boxcar Children were magical to me. I remember my second grade teacher reading them to us. I later found out that they were written by my great aunt.
As far as a little child.. the Beatrix Potter books. They were smart and funny and had a moral. They also made sense. A bunny would likely want to go sneaking around a farmer’s garden for some goodies.
Here’s my beloved tattered copy…never read whole series, but I do collect misfit antique/thrift tea cups, saucers, lunch plates etc. My personal Boxcar collection.
My local librarian turned me on to myths and legends of the world, then borrowed books for me from other libraries, including lots of Gaelic stuff! It was in these that I first learned of Banshees and other otherwordly things of Ireland….
I loved Nancy Drew and the Anne of Green Gables books. I was luck to live across the street from the library growing up and practically lived there during the summer.
Soo many!! Anything by Judy Blume, the Nancy Drew series, Little House on the Prairie, Pippi Longstocking, Beverly Cleary, anything Sweet Valley High, Enclopedia Brown, Grimm Fairy Tales, Hans Christen Anderson, anything by S.E.Hinton, Aseop’s Tales, the old Fairy Tales, anything that had animals in it (dogs, cats, etc), anything about Greek or Roman mythology, anything about King Arthur, Amelia Bedelia…anything that was i a Scholastic Book Order or Book Fair!! My Dad was very generous when it came to books!!
I loved Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. When I was a teenager I started reading scary books and liked Christopher Pike. I want to go back and read one as an adult and see if I still like them.
Read all the Newbery winners, especially Hittie, Secret of the Andes, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Johnny Tremain, Invincible Louisa, Mr. Popper’s Penguins. I also loved all the Freddy the Detective series
I can’t pick a favorite. Some I remember loving are: Anne of Green Gables, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Dragonsong, Girl Talk Series, Babysitter’s Club, Nancy Drew, White Fang and The Call of the Wild by Jack London. I could go on and on…
What’s very interesting is the selection of n
Books picked as a child really shows about which generation to responding. Us older folks have Nancy Drew, Heidi
Little House on the Prairie etc while the new “kids” have Judy Blume etc. Interesting
I loved the sweet dreams romance series, sweet valley high, cheerleaders, couples, crystal falls..I was obsessed with teenage romance/high drama until about 15 😂
I really liked Little House, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Wizard of Oz. I think Oz was the very first book I bought on my own from a book fair we had in school. I still have it to this day.❤
I just read the boxcar children books for the first time 2 years ago. I found the first 8 in a thrift store and loved them! I’ve been reading them as I find them. I understand the original author wrote the first 19 and other writers took over after that. I can really see a difference with #20 and after, so I’ll just stick with the originals. The stories are clever and exciting. Mysteries are well done and love the kids. I can see why these are such well loved books.
My son just loved the Boxcar Children. I recently introduced the books to a non-reader in my class (I teach 5th grade). At the end of the year, he was hooked and reading!
We were in an antiques mall and one of the stands had copies of 8 Cousins and Rose in Bloom. I almost bought them but at $30 each, that was too rich for my blood! I m sure I can get them on Kindle for less if not a paperback versions. After Little Women and An Old Fashion Girl, they were my favorites.
Nancy Drew and that roadster. Who were the nurses? I forget but I liked them, too. I adored Mary Poppins because she was all business–not a saccharine bone in her body. The biography of P. L. Travers is worth reading.
Magic Elizabeth, The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House, No Flying in the House, The Ghost in the Swing, Jenny…anything by Marguerite Henry – especially King of the Wind.
Ramona Quimby
Omgoodness yes! Loved this series and Little House on the Prairie.❤️
Little House books
Trixie Belden
Ramona!!!
I just gave the Boxcar Children to my grandson to read!
I loved these, as well as the Babysitters Club books and the Face on the Milkcarton series.
Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret. Also loved Nancy Drew Files, Sweet Valley (all iterations) and Anne of Green Gables.
I had several but the books I checked out of the library over and over were by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her Little House life
💕💕The Harry Potter series!!! 💕💕
Yes! These will always be my favorite. And i liked the American girl books
The Little House books
Anything with horses. The Black Stallion, Saddle Club, Thoroughbred series, etc.
The wind in the willows , Mother’s west wind stories. Nancy drew.
All of A Kind Family
I’ve never heard of these. Totally going to find!
Little House books.
My Side of the Mountain.
Mrs Piggle-Wiggle. She was a pig that taught troublesome children manners.
Nancy Drew, Babysitter’s Club, and Little House series. 💕
The Boxcar Children series was my very favorite. The author, Miss Warner, lived down the street from me. When I was in the fourth grade, I wrote a story which my teacher gave to Miss Warner to read. I had to go to her house to pick it up. It was a highlight for me to meet her.
My Favorite was Charlotte’s Web. I still have (40 years later) my original copy. and then, anything Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary. Also loved loved loved the Serendipity Books.
Serendipity I remember buying through the Scholastic Book Fair.
These are the books that made me love reading!
The Wind in the Willows
Little House series, Nancy Drew series, Hardy Boys series, Heidi, The Bobbsey Twins series, Ginny Gorden and the Lending Library.
Boxcar Children was absolutely my favorite. I was very very lucky growing up. We had a librarian in the children’s section of the library who took a shine to me. She would set aside new books for me to read, and she was always encouraging me to read books “older” than I was. I was at the library once a week after Brownies, and then Girl Scouts. The troops met right across the street from our library. That was the best day of the week for me!!!
American Girls!
Anne of green gables, Ramona Quimby,, Harry Potter, Matilda
All of the Oz books!
Me too!
When i was younger, i loved the Frances books, by Lobel. I can still hear my dad reading these to me, and snorting at some of her antics. ❤
I loved Frances & Loved sharing them with my kids!
Did you have the records? Do you remember Mouse Soup? I can remember the songs from the Frances books, “Best Friends for Francis”: Fat boys that eat too much lunch can’t do a thing but munch and crunch and play with snakes and frogs!” 😆😆
Lori I had the audio cassette of Frances – Loved all her little songs. Those books are so funny
My daughters loved these & my students as well. 😉 One of my favorite chapter books i was Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
Always and forever The Little House books. There is never a week I don’t read a few chapters, and the entire series at least once a year. I read other things, if course, but nothing brings me the joy, peace, and comfort of Laura. Xoxoxo
Mio, My Son, the All-In-The-Kind Family series, Sal Fisher Brownie/Girl Scout series and Freckle Face Frankie.😊
Little House, Charlotte’s Web, The Bobbsey Twins, the Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood, Ramona Quimby, Anne of Green Gables.
Charlotte ‘s web can still bring a tear to my eye. I love that book!
Same here
My favorites! I so wanted to find a boxcar and live <3
Beautiful Joe taught me kindness to animsls.❤
The Never Ending Story
That’s another book on my summer list.
Trixie Belden mysteries
Nancy drew
I LOVED these books! I even had the map so I could follow their adventures and everything lol. I bought a bunch of used ones for my soon-to-arrive baby girl at the last book sale I went to. I hope she loves them as much as I did!
I think I read almost all of the babysitter’s club books and I love the comic updates they did to them.
Sweet Valley High!
Dog and horse books…All of the Terhune books and the Black Beauty, Red Stallion,, etc.
A Wrinkle in Time
Also Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Anything by Gordon Korman
Especially the What’s happening at McDonald hall series
I also liked the Hank the Cowdog books
Little house on the prairie.
Amy!
I should take a picture of all of the Babysitter’s Club books I have. I have a TON!
My youngest daughter loved this series!
Boxcar Children and the Bobbsey Twins and the Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
No Flying in the House. Love.
Also all the Black Stallion books
I loved this series, too, and most all Roald Dahl’s books, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
My first exposure to “big kid books”( we didn’t use the phrase “chapter book” back then)was my third grade teacher reading the boxcar children aloud. I enjoyed reading it, it’s sequels and so many others to my own children- so many favorites!!
Anyone else ever read books by Ruth Chew? She was my favorite! Her books were about magic and witches- usually kind of quirky witches living in New York.
I also loved the Boxcar Children. I didn’t know it was a series then though. I checked it out of the Library so many times that the Librarian finally told me I couldn’t anymore since I was not giving others a chance to read it. I have my own copy today.
Does anyone remember the Zodiac Club series? I wanted to be Jocelyn, the Scorpio, because I’m a Scorpio.
Those sound awesome! Lol. My daughter is a Joselynn, and I’m a scorpio!
I never read the series,but they sound cool
For some unknown reason I read the Frank Meriwell series. At our library you could only check one book a week for each person in family. I was the only person in our family reading therefore I got to check seven books a week
Little House on the Prairie, Nancy Drew, Lassie, Black Beauty, Lad..a dog, Ribsy, all the Judy Blume books, The Dandelion series, The Children’s Bible, Dr. Suess, The Cricket in Times Square, Heidi, Chincateauge, Make way for ducklings, any Scholastic book, Madeline, and of course Amelia Bedelia!!! Too many to count!!! 🙂
Amelia Bedelia!!!
I forgot Curious George!
Corduroy!
Black stallion series
.. Heidi ..
Cheese, Peas, and Chocolate Pudding?
The Secret Land of Og? It was a cartoon too, Canadian.
Boys, Nancy Drew, and Alfred HItchcock’s Three Detectives.
The Betsy series
Ginny Gordon & Cherry Ames anyone remember these?
Cherry Ames for sure. I also loved Sue Barton series which were older when I was young! Let us not forget the most wonderful series about Beany Malone by Lenora Mattingly Weber!
Marianne oh my I had forgotten about Sue Barton!
My mom was a First Grade teacher and there was a reading book that had fairy tales and folk stories in it. I can’t recall the publisher though, maybe Scott Foresman: The Bremen Town Musicians, King Midas, The Gingerbread Man, Rumpelstiltskin, Stone Soup, Snow White and Rose Red, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Hansel and Gretel… I adored that book.
I loved these books! 😍
Nancy drew series, tricked belden series, cherry anes series, a tree grows in Brooklyn, Alice in wonderland, Heidi , little women
Did anyone read a really weird teen book called, “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Mary Anderson? I own it now, found at Friends of the Library. It’s a little weird, but I loved it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1277508.I_m_Nobody_Who_Are_You_
You have named so many! Never heard of this one, but I got really into Paul Zendel (sp). He did Pardon Me you’re Stepping on my Eyeball and My Darling My Cheeseburger. Both I remember loving but couldn’t tell you the plot today.
I was in love with the Misty of Chincoteague series by Marguerite Henry.
I think the Boxcar Children books are what turned me into a reader as a young child.
Unfortunately I never read them. But I’m watching this happen with my daughter and I love it! (She’s 7.)
I grew up on the Little House on the Prairie books.
Same here!
I also enjoyed the Bailey School Kids series, Nancy Drews, and Goosebumps
Anyone remember two Scholastic books, probably purchased at the Book Fair called “100 Pounds of Popcorn” and “What’s For Lunch Charlie?”
I used to send my Mom to the Library for books of Fairy Tales!
I loved these!
Trixie Belden
Loved the Boxcar Children. I had forgotten about them.
Hrdy boys…
I was an avid Hardy Boys reader.
Also, a forgotten series similar to the Hardy Boys called Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (Jupiter Jones was the lead of the three Boys).
Jupiter Pete and Bob wasn’t it. I loved those
Cherry Ames. A nurse that had many different types of nursing jobs.
I’ve read a couple of those. Got me in the feels.
Secret of the Andes
Are you there God it’s me Margaret by Judy Blume
Our teacher read the first one to us and many of us read all of them checking them out from the school library and discussing the books at recess.Great books!
Sweet valley high, baby sitter’s club
any and ALL Beverly Cleary books! Loved each and every one!
Loved that book!
I was a Nancy Drew girl!
Loved these so much! When I wasn’t reading them, I was playing outside pretending to be one of them!
Nancy Drew
Little house on the Prairie series.
Johnathan Livingston Seagull, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Little Women
Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden
Never read these, Bobbsey Twins was my favorite!
The wizard of oz
The Boxcar Children were magical to me. I remember my second grade teacher reading them to us. I later found out that they were written by my great aunt.
Boxcar children were good.
I loved the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik,
Summer of the Monkeys
As far as a little child.. the Beatrix Potter books. They were smart and funny and had a moral. They also made sense. A bunny would likely want to go sneaking around a farmer’s garden for some goodies.
Anything by Beverly Cleary or Louisa Mae Alcott.
Little House on the Prairie
Nancy drew
Any Richard Peck!
Nancy Drew and Judy Blume books
I loved Hunry Huggins and then Bezus & Ramona books.
But when I found the stories about dogs in my library I read them all.
Dogs and horses for me😄
My daughter (now a 30-yr-old librarian) LOVED this series when she was young!
Winnie the pooh series….When we were young book , as well as Anne of Green Gables…The Jungle book…and any book about horses…
Junie B. Jones and The Magic Treehouse books!!
Paddington Bear books
Nancy Drew hands down
Ann of Green Gables and Nancy Drew!
Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries and the Rosamond du Jardin books.
I totally loved these books too!!!!
If you can find them, the Silver Chief series. They are a bit non PC by today’s standards, but still a good adventure/ crime fighting series
Here’s my beloved tattered copy…never read whole series, but I do collect misfit antique/thrift tea cups, saucers, lunch plates etc. My personal Boxcar collection.
Copy from 1942
The R.L Stine books.
I loved the Boxcar Children! Magic Treehouse and Series of Unfortunate events were also great.
My local librarian turned me on to myths and legends of the world, then borrowed books for me from other libraries, including lots of Gaelic stuff! It was in these that I first learned of Banshees and other otherwordly things of Ireland….
Little Woman, The Little Princess, The Doll House and any mystery series Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, etc.
Judy Blume, Beverly Clearly and the Babysitter’s Club
Mr. Popper’s Penguins🐧
Chronicles of Narnia. But it’s hard to pick.
Babysitter’s club!
I loved Nancy Drew and the Anne of Green Gables books. I was luck to live across the street from the library growing up and practically lived there during the summer.
The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Honey Bunch and the Little House series
The Boxcar Children were my favorite too!
I loved the Boxcar Children too!
Lloyd Alexander’s Book of Three through The High King. Read them all until the books fell apart.
Hank the Cowdog series is good, too. My boys are in their twenties and they still play the “Deadly Ha Ha Game”
The Karen series from the Babysitters Club! She was the little sister! It’s the first series that made me love reading!
Nancy Drew, Little House, and The Swiss Family Robinson. I read the latter as an adult and wondered what the draw was! lol
Loved these and babysitter’s club books!
Anything Judy Blume, Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing, Super Fudge, etc
Nancy Drew books
Nancy Drew.
Gone with the Wind
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, The Phantom Tollbooth, and the Chronicles of Narnia
Beverly Cleary, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Archie comic books. 🙂
Loved these! Trixie Belton and Little House on the Prairie were probably favorites.
Are You There God it’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Heidi, Little Women, Little Men, all Laura Ingles, NANCY Drew
Anne of Green Gables says Anne
The Boxcar Children were EVERYTHING!!! I also was a HUGE Sweet Valley High and Christopher Pike fan.
I really wanted to run off and join the Boxcar Children. Stories well told!
Barbara The Boxcar Children!!
Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys, King of the Wind, Black Stallion books, The Great Brain books, Frog, the Horse that Knew No Master…..
Pippi Longstocking series and The Borrowers series and Little House in the Big Woods series
I forgot Scott O’Dell!
Laura Ingalls Wilder, I’m sure when I went to Jr. high every one of the series had my name several time. School library, gotta love them 💕
Boxcar Children was my favorite!! Read all of them throughout my 3rd grade year!
Soo many!! Anything by Judy Blume, the Nancy Drew series, Little House on the Prairie, Pippi Longstocking, Beverly Cleary, anything Sweet Valley High, Enclopedia Brown, Grimm Fairy Tales, Hans Christen Anderson, anything by S.E.Hinton, Aseop’s Tales, the old Fairy Tales, anything that had animals in it (dogs, cats, etc), anything about Greek or Roman mythology, anything about King Arthur, Amelia Bedelia…anything that was i a Scholastic Book Order or Book Fair!! My Dad was very generous when it came to books!!
Boxcar Children, Babysitters Club, and Sweet Valley High were my favorite series. The Man Who Loved Clowns was my favorite book.
We liked a lot of the same!
I loved Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. When I was a teenager I started reading scary books and liked Christopher Pike. I want to go back and read one as an adult and see if I still like them.
Anne of Green Gables or Little Women
Read all the Newbery winners, especially Hittie, Secret of the Andes, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Johnny Tremain, Invincible Louisa, Mr. Popper’s Penguins. I also loved all the Freddy the Detective series
I just recently read The Witch of Blackbird Pond and loved it!
A Wrinkle in Time
Nancy Drew
Absolutely,made a blueprint for self sufficiency
The babysitters club that was one of the 1st series of children’s books I read
These Happy Golden Years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, also Charlotte ‘s Web, Love xx
The Pokey Little Puppy
I can’t pick a favorite. Some I remember loving are: Anne of Green Gables, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Dragonsong, Girl Talk Series, Babysitter’s Club, Nancy Drew, White Fang and The Call of the Wild by Jack London. I could go on and on…
A Child’s Garden of Verses, Nancy Drew, any mystery by Phyllis A. Whitney, any books about ancient civilizations. The Once and Future King.
I loved the Boxcar Children series!
Nancy Drew series 🙂
Little House Series.
The Chronicles Of Narnia.
Nancy Drew!
Nancy Drew. Secret Garden. Witch of blackbird pond.
What’s very interesting is the selection of n
Books picked as a child really shows about which generation to responding. Us older folks have Nancy Drew, Heidi
Little House on the Prairie etc while the new “kids” have Judy Blume etc. Interesting
Goosebumps and Sweet Valley Twins.
Anyone remember the Animorph books? My daughter loved them! And yes, she has kept them all.
I remember them..I worked in a bookstore when they were popular
Stuart Little, National Velvet, Carl Sandberg’s Rutabaga Stories
Nancy Drew books
Anyone else read The Happy Hollisters series?
The Bobbsey Twins.
I loved the sweet dreams romance series, sweet valley high, cheerleaders, couples, crystal falls..I was obsessed with teenage romance/high drama until about 15 😂
Boxcar Children
Oh so many! Berenstain Bears, Dr Suess, Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, Little house on the prairie and every one after that. The list is endless
The Trixie Belden Series! 😂
The first book I ever purchased was a Trixie Belden…25 cents!
The Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard was my all time favorite when I was little. I also read a lot of the Boxcar Children and Little House books.
I loved the Mandie books! Had to get an out-of-town library card once on vacation because I needed the next book immediately! 😄
The BFG by Roald Dahl.
Babysitters club
All of a A Kind Family
Loved these! This series made me a reader!
I really liked Little House, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Wizard of Oz. I think Oz was the very first book I bought on my own from a book fair we had in school. I still have it to this day.❤
Trixie Belden 🐴. Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys both were favorites. Still like mysteries best. Before that I loved Mrs Piggly wiggly books
Nancy Drew books.
Cherry Ames series
Judy Bolton mysteries
Still love and have my first grade reader Alice and Jerry. beautiful illustrations and good stories
A Wrinkle in Time
THE BOBBYS TWINS
Little Women
One of mine too. I still cry every time Beth dies.
I just read the boxcar children books for the first time 2 years ago. I found the first 8 in a thrift store and loved them! I’ve been reading them as I find them. I understand the original author wrote the first 19 and other writers took over after that. I can really see a difference with #20 and after, so I’ll just stick with the originals. The stories are clever and exciting. Mysteries are well done and love the kids. I can see why these are such well loved books.
The Pokey Little Puppy
Any fairy tale
I loved this book as a kid. I found in recently in a used book shop and it’s proudly on my bookshelf. And Nancy Drew and The Babysitters Club series.
The Bombay Twins, and Little Women
My son just loved the Boxcar Children. I recently introduced the books to a non-reader in my class (I teach 5th grade). At the end of the year, he was hooked and reading!
Nancy Drew, Little House series, Dr. Suess, Charlotte’s Web 💕
Nancy Drew and Mandie!
Five Little Peppers, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, The Green Fairy Tale Book and all the other colors
We were in an antiques mall and one of the stands had copies of 8 Cousins and Rose in Bloom. I almost bought them but at $30 each, that was too rich for my blood! I m sure I can get them on Kindle for less if not a paperback versions. After Little Women and An Old Fashion Girl, they were my favorites.
Nancy Drew and that roadster. Who were the nurses? I forget but I liked them, too. I adored Mary Poppins because she was all business–not a saccharine bone in her body. The biography of P. L. Travers is worth reading.
Heidi. I read it over and over as a little girl, imagining that I was in the mountains.
Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames
Book
The first Library books I read were Fairy Tales.
I loved The Hardy Boys books and Donna Parker. Heidi was my favorite!
Magic Elizabeth, The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House, No Flying in the House, The Ghost in the Swing, Jenny…anything by Marguerite Henry – especially King of the Wind.