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07 Dec 2020 at 01:04 PM PST
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What Was Your Favorite Childhood Book?

By Teyla Rachel Branton

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People who love to read can often point to a single magical book that first captured their imaginations and made them lifelong readers. For instance, at age four I learned to read the Aristocats by Robert B. Sherman, but it wasn’t until I later read The Gift of Magic by Louis Duncan that I was captured completely. But I wanted to know what books inspired other readers, so I had Book Cave ask their readers on social media to name their favorite childhood book. Their answers are as different and varied as the author who wrote them.

Here are the favorites. Did any of these books make an impact on you as a child?

Top Favorite Books Read as a Child

These are the childhood favorites most listed by Book Cave readers, with Nancy Drew drawing more than double the votes of The Secret Garden. But to be fair, Nancy Drew is an entire series versus Burnett’s single book.

Nancy Drew Mysteries by Benson Mildred A. Wirt

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Books that Received the Second Highest Number of Nominations

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm (including “The Elves and the Shoemaker”)

Books that Tied for Third

Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

The Famous Five by Enid Blyton

Hardy Boys Mysteries by Franklin W. Dixon

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Ramona by Beverly Cleary

Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope

The Five Little Peppers by Margot Sydney

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Danny Dunn series by Abrashkin Abrashkin and Jay Williams

Fourth-Place Winners

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

Things That Go Bump in the Night by Louis C Jones

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgen Burnett

Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross

Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Striped Ice Cream by Joan M. Lexau

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan

The Adventures of The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Book of Bible Stories by Unknown

The Bernstein Bears: The Big Honey Hunt by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain

Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Mike Mulligan’s Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann

The Littlest Angel (pop-up book) by Charles Tazewel

Bunny Blue by Catherine Stahlmann

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Little Ballerina by Katharine Ross and Heidi Petach

Three Investigators by Robert Author

Swiss Family Robinson by Jean Rudolph Wyss

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward and Marjorie Flack

Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd

Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

Baby Sitters Club Ann M. Martin

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Call of The Wild by Jack London

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett

Artie The Smarty by Faith McNulty

Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish

Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

Books that Probably Shouldn’t Be Read by a Child

Last of all, I was surprised when one reader said they’d somehow read this last book at age eight. I was freaked out by it at sixteen, so I’m thinking that was probably not a great read for a child. Definitely an impact there—and not likely a good one. What a reminder to be careful what we leave lying around for eager young eyes to ingest.

Pet Cemetery by Stephen King

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Teyla Branton grew up avidly reading science fiction and fantasy and watching Star Trek reruns with her large family. They lived on a little farm where she loved to visit the solitary cow and collect (and juggle) the eggs, usually making it back to the house with most of them intact. On that same farm she once owned thirty-three gerbils and eighteen cats, not a good mix, as it turns out. Teyla always had her nose in a book and daydreamed about someday creating her own worlds. She is now married, mostly grown up, and has seven kids, including a four-year-old, so life at her house can be very interesting (and loud), but writing keeps her sane. She loves guns, martial arts, and belly dancing. Teyla writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. She also writes romance and romantic suspense under the name Rachel Branton. For more information or to hear about new releases, please visit https://TeylaRachelBranton.com.

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  1. pdarnold
    pdarnold • 2 years ago

    My first memory of reading was The Golden Egg Book (Big Little Golden Book), which of course is also my first favorite. A few years later with several reads under my belt, in no particular order, for I cannot decide between the 3 which would be my favorite; Charlotte’s Web by E. B White, James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.

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  2. Jamie Bee
    Jamie Bee • 2 years ago

    What a fun list! It brought back a lot of memories. It’s amazing that most of the top ones are decades-old (or more) children’s classics.

    My personal favorite was the entire Little House series. I literally read it all 9 times between the ages of 7 and 9. YA for tweens and teens was relatively new at the time, and I read MANY of those.

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