# Your favorite kid's books

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 26, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-kids-books/26849 "2000-07-26T00:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-kids-books/26849/181 "2000-12-28T05:55:25Z")

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This is by far the best kids’ book I’ve ever read. It’s a little creepy, but not scary. It’s definitely weird. I believe the author is Sylvia Cassidy. I still read it every once in a while.

Also good:

Narnia (especially Dawn Treader)  
Anne of Green Gables  
Many Waters  
A Swiftly Tilting Planet  
Harriet the Spy  
All Roald Dahl books  
Sideways Stories from Wayside School

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**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-kids-books/26849/182 "2000-12-29T06:36:37Z")

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Can’t resist the opportunity to chip in on this thread.

My favorites are some of the standards…  
The Phantom Tollbooth  
Narnia  
The Black Cauldron series  
The Robert Heinlein juvenile novels:

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel  
The Star Beast  
Podkayne of Mars  
Starman Jones  
Space Cadet (Also my Junior High nickname…)

Where the Wild Things Are  
The Secret Garden  
A lot of Enid Blyton. The first book I ever read by myself was one of her adventure novels.  
Edgar Rice Burroughs - all his series.  
Tom Swift, Jr.

But it only took me a couple of years to talk the librarian into an adult library card, so I was soon into the Heinlein/Asimov/Clarke school of science fiction, and never looked back. That is, until lately.

Which is the reason I’m posting. If you go to Project Gutenberg’s web site, at [http://www.gutenberg.net/](http://www.gutenberg.net/), you’ll find the complete texts of some of the most beloved stories discussed here, including the Oz books, the Burroughs books, The Secret Garden, a big chunk of the old Tom Swift books (“Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, or, Two miles a minute on the rails”…hehehe…) some Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, etc., etc. Warning; it may kill more time than you can afford at work.

My first post… I’m so proud. Sniff.

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**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-kids-books/26849/183 "2000-12-29T17:50:21Z")

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If you Give a Mouse a Cookie  
Charlotte’s Web

As I grew up, I got into the Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew, Baby-Sitter’s Club, and the never ending Sweet Valley series.

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