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This thread is for sharing books from your childhood that you fondly remember.

Right now I am all about "Big dog, Little Dog" starring a tall dog with a green sweater and a short dog with a red sweater.

I used to have a book about a kid who was adopted. I have no idea of the author/ title though. But I nostalgise upon it nonetheless.

cos, I'm adopted too, so... coincidence, I guess?

Also I'm autistic too, but I've only read some of 'the curious incident of the dog in the nightime.' and frankly I think its a bit crap - but I guess its an ok book? I got asked about it in one of my uni interviews. A bit annoying that i'm expected to have read that book just because I'm an aspie.

Best children's book ever. It is the reason I am a hat-fanatic.

Were you the one on FOMS who collected hats?

My favourite book from when I was young still resides on the table here. It is called 4,000 Amazing Trivial Facts. It is unabashedly awesome.

Sorry, I've got no idea what FOMS stands for. Google hints that it is Forest Oak Middle School, which is in Maryland. I meanwhile, reside just a little south of Pasadena, CA, in the city of (surprise!) South Pasadena. We're so good at naming things cleverly.

FOMS was Ben Heaton's original comic, pre-Terror Island.

bunnikins in the snow
my cat likes to hide in boxes
all nancy drew and boxcar children books

To make Millroy's hat collection for FOMS, I mostly used hats from my brother's collection, as well as a few of my own. My brother has the best hat collection in my immediate family.

I found The Dark is Rising at Goodwill a few months ago, and read through it again (not the whole series, just the first book). So good. Apparently they're making a movie of it.

I am excited and horrified.


The Dark is Rising is definitely among my favourite childhood reads, and it (the series, not just the second book) is still standing in my shelf here with no prospect of being demoted to the pile back home.

I read FOMS today. Now I'm wondering when you're going to update :P

One time, my younger brother said he had this great idea for a book the other day--which was that it would be roughly in the form of a song, w/ a (prose) chorus, intro, outro, etc. I told him that his description kind of reminded me of the children's book "I'll Love You Forever," which was, obviously, the last thing he wanted to hear.

The very next day, in Spanish class, our teacher decided to read "I'll Love You Forever" to us in Spanish. Creepy, huh?

Also, is there any sort of official song that goes with that book? Because my mom always used to actually sing the song when she read it.

I've read that whole series except for two books--the one about the witch and the one that comes before the book actually entitled "The Dark is Rising" IIRC.

"Over Sea, Under Stone". Easily the weakest book in the sequence, you haven't really missed much, it's fairly well recapped in "Greenwitch".

... which you also haven't read. So you've essentially just skipped the whole grail plot? That must have made "The Grey King" somewhat confusing.

Oh geez, I completely forgot about Make Way for Ducklings until en.wikipedia made it the featured article. Now I'm all nostalgic for Mack, Quack, Kack, Jack, and...oh damn, what were the other ones?

OMG Big dog little dog!

Almost as good as go dog go! (least i belive that is what it was called)

Yeah, it was called Go Dog Go! I can't remember what that was about, but I remember it was awesome.

The best children's books I remember are "Are You My Mother?" and "The Z was Zapped," which is, undoubtedly, the best alphabet book ever.

That blue one with the baby on the cover playing with toilet paper, and in the end some old person dies. Maybe the babies parent. Something like that.

Maybe "remember" is too strong a word for my relation to this book.

That's "Love You Forever," definitely a classic.

Did any of you read any of Daniel Pinkwater's books? They were great, especially Borgel, which is basically hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy for young adults.

Borgel's one of my favorite children's books.

Have you seen his latest book, The Neddiad? It's being serialized online.

I've heard that the Dark is Rising movie was a gigantic pile of awful. Way to abuse my childhood memories, Hollywood.

I heard they made the main character American for no reason whatsoever. Now I don't actually hate Hollywood like much of Internet does(whenever I think Hollywood is pants I take a look at what gets popular in Japan--there are fangirls that would forgive Adolf Hitler if he were bishounen) but I question if they actually read the story, since Arthuriana and the Welsh language are a major part of the plot.

Oh wow! Thanks for that link. I'm looking forward to reading it.

At least they had the decency to change the title of the film.

Cookie Monster and the Magic Cookie Tree.

The Phantom Tollbooth.

Anything by Bill Peet.

YES.