Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang
Lots of Shel Silverstein
Frog And Toad Together
Dr Suess
Aesop’s Fables
Narnia Chronicles
Lord Of The Rings
Encyclopedia Brown
Hardy Boys
Blubber
My user name says it all.
Yup. I mentioned it in post 17. Always a fun book to read with a little kid, whose face will light up in delight as the cap salesman inadvertently gets his caps back. 
51 Sycamore Lane or A Spy In The Neighborhood.
Must’ve reread that thing 20 times as a kid. Then I loaned it to Brian Geisenger, and I never saw it again. Bastard! Give me back my book!!
Forgot Mrs Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking, and the Half- Magic type books (forgot author’s name). Anyone remember Snip, Snap and Snur and Flikka, Tikka and Rikka (series)? I don’t recall the stories, but the illustrations mesmerized me as a kid.
I do. I was going to reply to this thread specifically to mention the Danny Dunn series. Most of those that I read were library books, and the few I owned disappeared, so about six months ago, I bought 5-6 of the Danny Dunn books (used copies from Amazon Marketplace resellers) for my 10-year old son. He liked Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine well enough, but not enough to read the others (even after I offered him $5 for each that he read). 
Anyway, the most memorable books that I read before I turned 13 are:
[ul]
[li]the “Danny Dunn” series[/li][li]Beverly Cleary books (starting with Henry and the Paper Route)[/li][li]the “Oz” books (the Frank Baum ones)[/li][li]the “Pippi Longstocking” books[/li][li]the “Narnia” books[/li][li]the “Encyclopedia Brown” series[/li][li]the “Three Investigators” series[/li][li]Where the Red Fern Grows (our 5th grade teacher read this to us over the course of a month or so; I borrowed it and reread it in one sitting, finishing it under my covers by flashlight)[/li][li]Watership Down (we had to pick a book off of a list for school, and I thought it was about submarines)[/li][li]The Hobbit[/li][li]Lord of the Rings trilogy (inspired to tackle this due to the Bakshi movie)[/li][/ul]
The “Pern” books, “Xanth” series, Asimov, Heinlein, and the whole world of science fiction didn’t happen until I was a teenager.
Funny, I just saw this book on my son’s bookshelf this last weekend, one of the few of my childhood books to survive. Wasn’t one of my favorites, though.
Oooh ! I’d forgotten all about the Encyclopedia Brown stories!
Also, the Roald Dadhl works. Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little were huge for me. I re-read my copies until they were dog-eared.
I loved Penrod, by Booth Tarkington, and Paddle-to-the-Sea, by Holling C. Holling. I have a vague notion that both are now considered somewhat less than politically correct, but I may be entirely wrong.
I tended toward the boy’s adventure series:
The Tom Swift, Jr. series
The Hardy Boys
**The Whispering Box Mystery **(Rick Brant) by John Blaine – I would have loved to have read more Rick Brant, but this was the only one I ever came across, and it was the best of that type.
A Wrinkle in Time
More Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
The Happy Hollisters series, mostly because they were available in the school library.
Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint (I never read the others in the series, except for maybe Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine – but that didn’t leave much impression.
And, of course Great Science Fiction Stories by Cordelia Titcomb Smith. Here’s the table of contents:
Vital Factor · Nelson S. Bond ·
Pottage [People] · Zenna Henderson ·
The Roads Must Roll · Robert A. Heinlein ·
The Stolen Bacillus · H. G. Wells ·
The Star · H. G. Wells ·
Nightfall · Isaac Asimov ·
History Lesson · Arthur C. Clarke ·
In Hiding · Wilmar H. Shiras ·
The Martian Crown Jewels · Poul Anderson ·
The Sands of Time · P. Schuyler Miller ·
Into Space [from Round the Moon] · Jules Verne ·
I read the Burgess books voraciously when I was a kid, but I had completely forgotten about them until now. You can get them from manybooks.net and Amazon is just putting them out as kindle books. Weird.
Up through 8th grade:
[ul][li]The Chronicles of Narnia[/li][li]Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass[/li][li]Madeleine L’Engle’s books[/li][li]Jane Langton’s children’s books (she lived one town away, and read The Diamond in the Window to our class)[/li][li]Edward Eager’s books[/li][li]Elizabeth Enright’s books (especially those about the Melendy family)[/li][li]Heinlein’s books for younger readers (started me on sci-fi)[/li][li]The Phantom Tollbooth[/li][li]Homer Price stories[/li][li]The Hobbit[/li][li]Cheaper by the Dozen (read in a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book collection at my grandmother’s house in PEI whenever I visited for summer vacation[/li][li]Roald Dahl (I was so amazed to realize as an adult to realize that the same author who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wrote some of those racy little short stories 
)[/li][li]Mary Poppins[/ul][/li]Surprisingly, not L M Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), although I have been going to PEI as long as I remember, and there was a photo of the Green Gables house hanging on the wall when I was growing up.
Read a little later in High School, but ones which I would have appreciated when I was younger:
[ul][li]The Thirteen Clocks (Thurber)[/li][li]The Last Unicorn (Beagle)[/li][li]Where the Red Fern Grows (still makes me cry)[/li][li]The Little Prince[/li][/ul]
I know that I’m forgetting a lot…
There’s another book I’d forgotten. Brilliant book.
Oh, I almost forgot, Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins. I read that one every now and again.
Oh, and the Henry Huggins books by Beverly Cleary. Over and over again.
Anyone remember a book about a boy whose father or grandfather was a Caribbean or maybe Mexican fisherman? The boy befriends a dolphin, and squares off against a hammerhead shark. The book had very dramatic pencil or charcoal illustrations.
For me there was only one.
All other books were a distant second. This is a true children’s book, in that it was read to me before bed over and over again. Books like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Carroll don’t fit the description of “children’s book” to me, they are at best “young adult” and most of the stuff people were reading in Junior High qualifies as simply literature that you discovered at a young age.
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Up through 8th grade:
[li]Jane Langton’s children’s books (she lived one town away, and read The Diamond in the Window to our class)[/li][/quote]
That must have been neat!
I liked those books, but my favorites by Langton were her two about Grace Jones (The Majesty of Grace and The Boyhood of Grace Jones). I forgot about them before… Terrific books about a really unusual and interesting young girl during the Depression.
Other favorites I forgot before (and which I haven’t seem mentioned yet, or missed the mention of): All of E. Nesbit’s books. Must reads for all you Edward Eager fans – and for anyone else who wants to see how little children have really changed in the last 100 years. Because in these books (written between 1890 and 1910 or so) you will find as recognisable kids as you will find in any Chuck E. Cheese today.
All of Rumer Godden’s doll books, especially The Doll House. The last words of this book are among the most beautiful ever written. In a children’s book about a family of talking dolls. Really. The best words ever written about grief, loss and recovery. I frequently recommend them to people looking for appropriate non-theistic words for eulogies.
I like Princess series very much, lovely story
Pre-teen:
Trixie Beldon series
Sherlock holmes
Hitchhiker’s Guide
the Wrinkle in Time series
Teen:
Stephen King
Ann Rice
Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespear
Norse & Greek mythologies
Charlotte’s Web
Tarzan of the Apes
Penrod
Tom Sawyer
Peanuts collections
Harriet the Spy
My dad’s Playboys
Our parents never talked to us about sex, so mom talked dad into buying a sex-ed 4-volume set and inserting it into our library under the cover of darkness. It was very clinical, and just had drawings, but it was a godsend to a ten year old boy, oh yeah. I didn’t find his Playboys until I was about 13.
Did her witch “mother” turn into an anteater? You could make me very happy here.
crossing my fingers