When I see the term ‘childhood books’ it makes me think of picture books, but I don’t remember too many of my favorites. I’ll share the ones I do remember, though, and then a few of my favorite middle grade books I have fond memories of.
Picture Books
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Thanks to this book I truly believe that houses have feelings and personalities.)
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Middle Grade Books
- The Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
- The Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (This one I read so many times my copy is falling apart and always while eating root beer candy.)
- The Cooper Kids Adventures by Frank Peretti
- The Elizabeth Gail series by Hilda Stahl
What were some of your favorite childhood books? Let me know in the comments!
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted each week by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl. Visit her blog to find out what books she remembers reading as a child and find other’s lists as well!
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I loved the Cricket in Times Square!!
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It’s such a good one! I need to reread it because I haven’t in years.
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Great list! I’m not sure if I read any of these ones as a child, except The Little House. I loved that one.
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Writing this post made me realize I haven’t read The Little House to my son yet. I need to fix that!
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I loved The Boxcar Children. Even though they had a hard life, I always felt like playing house in an old train car would be SO FUN. Great List!!
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I always thought it would be fun, too!
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The Mandie series was on my list this week, too!
My TTT.
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Oh, fun! I wasn’t sure how many people would know the series.
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It was a bit difficult for me to remember most of my childhood faves too, which is why I took a different tack. I do like this TTT for the intro to books I can share with my nephews too!
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I’m glad I’m not the only one that has trouble remembering childhood books!
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I am not that familiar with a lot of these books, but I definitely remember Guess How Much I Love You
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Guess How Much I Love You is such a good one!
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I don’t know any of these haha but they look super cute!
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I didn’t read a lot of popular books when I was young haha
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Guess How Much I Love You was so cute and We’re Going on A Bear Hunt made my list too! Great list 😊
My TTT: https://lifewithallthebooks.com/2019/07/02/top-ten-tuesday-childhood-favourites/
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My son loves We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, too!
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Guess How Much I Love You is such a cute book.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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It really is!
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Oh wow, I haven’t even heard of any of these. I was at least expecting to recognize a few, since I didn’t think there was a huge amount of variety in what was available back then. Maybe it just feels that way compared to now?
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I definitely think there’s a lot more variety now than there used to be. I used to read mostly Christian/faith based books.
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I recognize a few of them.
One of the difficult things about this topic (other than not remembering the picture books I read as a kid) was thinking “did I like that book or not?” Because I really don’t remember. And then there were books I was given that I don’t remember whether I read them or not.
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Oh, yes, I definitely understand that! It’s hard to know if these were my favorites or if I only think they were because they were the only books I had to read.
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I know I read The Little House and The Boxcar Children but I don’t remember a whole lot about them. I do remember liking The Snowy Day quite a bit!
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You recognized some of the best ones!
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I totally forgot about the Mandie books! I read those for a short period of time, but never did complete the series. They certainly are fun little MG reads though. Oh, and I owned one of the Elsie Dinsmore books, but cannot remember if I ever read it…! Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland. 🙂
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I don’t think I ever completed the Mandie series either. I’m really not sure how many of them I read.
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I remember loving We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!
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My son loves it, too!
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The Little House is so sweet. I love the illustrations.
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It was so good! I need to make sure I read it to my son.
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I recognize The Boxcar Children and Guess How Much I Love you! This was such a fun prompt, seeing what kind of books overlapped with all of us, and what new ones we never heard of before. Great list ❤
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Yes, I really liked the prompt, too!
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I haven’t read any of these… although Little House looks very familiar (maybe I did read that as a kid?).
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I’ve noticed books on others lists that look familiar, too, but I’m not sure if I’ve read them or not.
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I remember reading The Snowy Day! It was such a cute read 🙂
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I only just found out when writing this post that The Snowy Day was the first in a series!
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