# Do you have a favorite kids book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125 "2002-10-07T01:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lab2490](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lab2490](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lab2490)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/41 "2002-10-12T00:23:06Z")
The cat ate my Gymsuit! I forgot about that one. I used to love that! ---
**Author:** ![Lab2490](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lab2490](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lab2490)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/42 "2002-10-12T00:25:36Z")
Oh and I also just remembered "the Little house " books . I used to know those by heart. It was weird because if you read the book and then saw the show, It was never the same. The characters were different, Story’s from the book would show up on the show only the werent right, I liked the show but I wish they would have made it more like the books ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/43 "2002-10-12T03:34:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > \*\*My favorite books I read when I was a kid were **The Dark is Rising** series, by Susan Cooper. If I had to pick a single favorite out of the series it would be _The Grey King_, but really the whole series is great. I still read it now and again. > > Another good one, not very well-known, was _The Pushcart War_ by Jean Merrill… a funny but barbed little story. \*\* Yes and Yes. Both of those books were excellent. I read and re-read The Grey King so many times that the cover fell off. But my all-time favorite kid’s book was King of the Wind by Marquerite Henry. I STILL love this book and it is still in my top ten favorite books. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/44 "2002-10-12T03:36:24Z")
Yobgorgle, by a recurring shordurpersav of mine, the great Daniel Pinkwater. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/45 "2002-10-12T04:40:01Z")
**Greywolf** I don’t know how I forgot the Marguerite Henry books. The Misty of Chincoteague books are great. I also read King of the Wind several times. They may inspire horse-craziness in ten year old girls, however. 🙂 Someone _has_ mentioned the Little House on the Prairie books, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/46 "2002-10-12T05:06:18Z")
Dang! All my favorites are showing up in here. I’ve never met anyone who knows about _The Westing Game_. May I also recommend Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles, beginning with _The Book of Three_? The next volumes are _The Black Cauldron_, _The Castle of Llyr_, and _Taran Wanderer_. The series finishes with _The High King_. I am still amazed at how well the series holds up, and how much Taran matures through the story. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/47 "2002-10-12T11:53:49Z")
The Misty books! Oh yes, and the Little House books! You guys really are taking me down Memory Lane. Oh, and **phouka**? I know about _The Westing Game_. Do we let the others in on it? That was such a cool mystery book for kids, I cannot stand it. Oh, and the Encylopedia Brown books. ---
**Author:** ![Lab2490](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lab2490](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lab2490)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/48 "2002-10-12T21:45:42Z")
Dont we all know the westing game? I certainly do. Chess Anyone? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/49 "2002-10-13T06:48:40Z")
ivylass, we must bring the good news that is _[The Westing Game](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140386645/qid=1034491145/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8316973-0964830?v=glance)_ to others. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/50 "2002-10-13T08:05:07Z")
Going way way waaaay back **The Pokey Little Puppy**. Goign just way back, **Superfudge** and **Ramona the Pest** as well as any kind of **Encyclopedia Brown** book I could lay my hands on. You are a doofus always in my eyes, Butch Meany.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Merejane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Merejane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merejane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/51 "2002-10-13T11:25:06Z")
My twelve-year-old son and I both love anything by Gerald Durrell, especially his autobiographical trilogy, [My Family and Other Animals](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014028902X/qid=1034507260/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5980984-6168105?v=glance); [Birds, Beasts and Relatives](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002110903/qid=1034507656/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5980984-6168105?v=glance); and [The Garden of the Gods](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002162687/qid=1034507766/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-5980984-6168105?v=glance). The last two books in the trilogy are out of print, but they are well worth tracking down in a library or a used-book store. (I bought my copies from [half.com](http://half.com).) These are truly delightful books. ---
**Author:** ![SamIAm336](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SamIAm336](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamIAm336)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125/52 "2002-10-13T18:22:08Z")
Most of my favorites are already listed. From the mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler the Little House Series The Witch of Blackbird Pond But to add to the list Harold and His Purple Crayon (I know this is not really a Kids book,but, I read it when I was a kid) Lorna Doone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-kids-book/131125.md?page=2)