I couldn't see this in a thread so thought i'd start it.

What was your favourite book(s) when you were younger than 10?

Mine was The Ghost Train to Nowhere by Phil Roxbee Cox as part of the Usborne Spinechillers series. I loved that you could use the pictures as well as the story to solve the mistery. I think I was 7/8 when I first read it.

I always loved "The Giving Tree" the most when I was little - actually I still love it. Such a sweet book.

Also, my dad used to read "Goodnight Moon" to me and my mom would read "Love you forever". In "Love you forever" the mom always sings to her baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." I remember when my mom used to read it to me she would sing those lines as well. I have said now when I have a family, I will read that book to my children and my husband will read "Goodnight Moon". Kind of like passing down a tradition of sorts.

As well, I remember in like third or fourth grade I believe the most popular book you could read was "Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret." That was the book to have and I think our school library had like 1 copy!

My favourite was a Berenstein Bears book called The Spooky Old Tree. It was wonderful and I knew all the lines
Also when I was very small, there's a wonderful book called Peepo which my parents used to read to me. I still have my original copy, complete with torn page and chocolate smearing!

my favorite was this old biography about Lou Gehrig. Part of a whole set of biographies, all written for kids in probably like the 1950s or 60s.... It was the first real book I read and i still remember how proud i was....Go Lou!

all I can remember other than cinderella or snow white stories is charlotte's web...

My dad used to read me "Alice in Wonderland" and I adored it... I still do.

It's hard to pick a favourite book... Probably "The neverending story" by Michael Ande. It's still one of y favourires.

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winnie the pooh and then the chronicles of narnia... those are what i prodomenantly remeber

Anything by Enid Blyton...'The Magic Faraway Tree', 'The Wishing Chair', the Mallory Towers and St. Clare's school series, Famous Five and Secret Seven series also. I loved her books.

It's easy - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.

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Enid Blyton was a definite favorite. I still remember the day in second grade when I had read all the books we were supposed to read that winter and I was allowed to go to the school library to pick any book I wanted. There caught my attention, displayed prominently on a high shelf one of Enid Blyton´s mystery books. It looked and sounded mysterious, with a dark and mysterious cover picture, and I absolutely had to have it, even though it was thicker than any of the previous books I had read.

I think I spent the next years, both through the school program, where I had to note down how much I had read and get my mother and father to sign for it, and outside of school when I got a little older, finishing every Enid Blyton book that had been translated into Icelandic. But I newer did as we were supposed to do with the ,,school" books, read it aloud and repeat it two or three times, I just read before I went to sleep, that is maybe the reason I finished the book list so early.

Other favorites in those early years were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, of wich I absolutely loved the Machicians Nephew wich I aquired, maybe I was though a little older than ten then. But I remember also finding the Lion, Witch and Wardrope on the school library and reading it the same winter as I mentioned earlier now when I think of it. I am propably going to buy myself these books in English soon to reread it, now in its original language before they start showing the movies.

The Little Train That Could

I had a book I picked out when I was visiting family in England, when I was three. It is called The King. I couldn't tell you who wrote it, but I could recite it verbatim to this day. It was so cute, it was all about a boy king who takes off is crown so he can play with his new friend who doesn't have a crown.

As an adult, I realize it's a parallel to Edward and Wallis Warfield Simpson, but as a kid, it was just my favorite story.

I cant remember what the book was called but I loved it! It was a hardbark animal storybook, with beautiful detailed drawings. I think I've still got it somewhere.

Has to be "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. I went through an entire box of tissues when Charlotte died...

Wishing chair...Faraway Tree.... Enid Blyton. ...and also this three story book... i forget the name... but i rememebr each story inside out....

Besides big books about prehistoric life on earth / history / ethnology...
'Imperial Woman' from Pearl S. Buck was my first novel as a child. I think I was 8 or 9 as I had read this book (over 40 times), but in the German translation. My first child books I had read a lot later.

As a little child, I'm not sure. I loved any kind of fairy tale though. As I got a little older, Anne of Green Gables became my favorite.

Fantasy - C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, and I guess the Oz series by Frank L. Baum fits in here as well. Plus, since I was approx. 10, Tolkien.

Classical fairy tales too. And novels where pets had a major part (dogs, horses primarily for example the "Silver Brumby" series and similar)

well my fav buk as a child waz "charlie and the chocolate factory" ooo i luv it even now...it is one of the most sweetest stories i've eva read

A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door and I can't remember the other book in that series by madeline L'Engle.

A wrinkle in time..was my favorite book too also...Anne of green Gables

hey i really like a wrinkle in time too, but my absolute favorite was the lion witch and the wardrobe

the giving tree in fact i stll read it sometimes

Has anyone ever read "Jamberry"? I have no idea who wrote it, but it's a picture book that I used to (and still do) love when I was a little kid.
1 berry, 2 berry, pick me a blueberry. Hatberry, shoeberry, in a canoe berry!

A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

My favorite book was Where the Wild Things Are.

Winnetou, Tarzan and Anne of Green Gables

The Narnia Chronicles

Heidi

I loved the book The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts. It's about a young girl who has powers of telekenisis because of a drug that her mom made ina factory when she was pregnant. This girl goes to find some other kids who's moms were pregnant and have powers too. And they all have silver eyes. Great book.

Well, when I was really little my mom always read me Goodnight Moon. I loved that book!!

Then, I loved The Chronicles of Narnia and Nancy Drew books when I was in elementary school.

I love reading!!

hm..gotta be alice in wonderland and peter pan.

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I used to love anything by Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl (still do actually) then i moved onto Harry Potter. Now I like the Malorie Blackman trilogy (Noughts and Crosses) although I could read any of the mentioned books over and over again without getting bored

The "Little House" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I read one a year for many years.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Closet was my favorite.

I loved Where the Wild Things Are, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Ramona books as well. My favorite, though, was Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, about the friendship between a girl and a boy. That story can still bring tears to my eyes.

What do you think of the new movie adaptation of it? Looking forward to it?

when i was REALLY little, it was the velvatine rabbit, then it was stuart little

Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, which had my fave story The Little Match Girl.

Ender's Game, and then later, Ender's Shadow, bot amazing books!

my favourite must have been "The little prince"