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Roxip
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01-29-2004

Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 6:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Don't you just love books that make you upset when they end because they are so good? That you want to know more about the people invoved? Isn't that the best?

Educatedsista
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10-17-2005

Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Educatedsista a private message Print Post    
Well I read alot of books but I've never stopped to write down which ones were my favorite. Lets see A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry Mcmillian, God don't like Ugly by Mary Monroe. Well those were my favorite books that I read. I have the whole series from Harry Potters except I don't have The Order of the Phenix or the newest book from J.K Rowling. I'm into some of everything I love this book called That love that Faith That love by Jemellah Ellis I love that book. I recently just bought a book called Peace be Still by Collette Haywood I don't know if ya'll heard of that book before and I have Dead Wrong by Mariah Stewart. That about covers it for the books

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
Lots of great titles listed in this thread. I do not know what my favorite book would be, except for THE Holy Bible. THis will give me something to think about.

I have read Stolen Lives and that book made me thankful for many things!

I love Little Women and all her other books, The Watchers, and Gone with the Wind. WHen I was 9 years old, my favorite book of all was Mary Poppins. I found it before it became a movie and I loved every word.

I have never read Lonesome Dove, but now I am so curious, that it may become my Winter companion!

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Monday, November 28, 2005 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
My favorite would have to be Gone With the Wind. Yesitsme, you must read it. I couldn't put it down.

I also am not a westerns fan, but LOVED Lonesome Dove. I liked the Miniseries they did after it came out as well. It kept pretty close to the book.

Max
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08-12-2000

Monday, November 28, 2005 - 11:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
The first book to really affect me was Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I read it in junior high and will always remember the impact it had.

Other favorites include The Stand by Stephen King, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy and both of Wally Lamb's books -- She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True.

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Max, you swiped your first two sentences from my head!

I love everything John Steinbeck has written...particular favorites are The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Wayward Bus, Of Mice and Men, Travels with Charley...well, I could list them all.

Like others here, I liked Lonesome Dove very much. I was working in a retail store in a large mall when it came out, and I remember reading it during my 45 minute lunch breaks. When I picked it up every day, it was as though I was rejoining the trail ride, and all the characters had just been riding along with not much going on until I got back among the pack. lol

I used to be a King nut, too, and loved The Stand.
I love Pat Conroy, too.

Dang, I could sit here all night and list books I love! But, it's time to get off the puter.

Westtexan
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07-16-2004

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Westtexan a private message Print Post    
Here's a twist on the question of this thread...what was your all time favorite book when you were in school, particularly elementary school? I'm an elementary school librarian and have watched kids react to a book that just blows them away and sends them on a lifetime love of reading. It's an amazing thing to witness. They always want to know of another book just like the one they just read, but that's not so easy. As stated many times above, several people loved Lonesome Dove but don't like westerns. How do you find another good book like that? You don't. You just find another good book. It's like a treasure hunt.

Still, I'd like your input on the best children's literature, and short picture books don't count. Those aren't the books that hit the kids in the gut the way Where the Red Fern Grows or Old Yeller does. It's only chapter books that the children had to spend a few days with that infect them. They need time to get to know the characters and care about them.

I'll start...
Bambi
Charlotte's Web
Island of the Blue Dolphins

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Charlotte's Web
Little Women
Can't remember the exact title, but Christmas Pageant (with the horrible Herdmans)

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Abra by Joan Barfoot
(it let me know that it was OK to have an ambition to be a hermit!!!)

Mr Littlejohn by Martin Flavin
(who taught me "if it isn't fun, what is it?")

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S Beagle
(which gives lie to Marvel's poetry lines in his Ode to his Mistress "The grave 's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.")

OOPS these are not elementary school books. Sorry. I didn't see teh twist on the question. In elementary school I read Trixie Belden. I don't know what ever happened to her but I just loved those books (A younger Nancy Drew type of book)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
In elementary school, it was Little Women. When I first started school, it was Madeleine. I can still remember getting it from the library and how it smelled and how if felt reading it.

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley was my journey to far away places. I was raised in Newkirk, Oklahoma and it was 20 miles to the town library. I can still remember the excitement when we went to town and I got to go to the library. That was when I first learned the impatience of waiting for the next book by an author.

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Okay, in elementary school, The Phantom Tollbooth was a great read. I also loved Johnny Tremain from which I learned more about the founding of America than any history class I'd had (even though it was a fictional story).

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I loved the Black Stallion books. I also loved Little Women, Ole Yeller, A Wrinkle in Time, Beautiful Joe, The Misty books (I can't remember their exact title but they are about the wild horses on the outer bank islands), Charlotte's Web, all the Trixie Belden series (when I got to junior high), the Cherry Ames books, and the Bobsey Twins.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I remember the Misty books! I forgot all about those!

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Ack! How could I forget Black Beauty!?!?!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson has always been a favorite of mine, too, Beachcomber. I loved the humor and the poignancy. But my very favorite books for children are Charlotte's Web, Tuck Everlasting, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
Anne of Green Gables....

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Oh yes, I loved Anne of Green Gables...and Black Beauty...and Rebecca of Sunnybook Farm. I still have the record (yes, vinyl) that accompanied my Black Beauty read-along book...but haven't a clue where the book is.

I've read The Velveteen Bunny to my little girl since she was a baby...and it still brings tears to my eyes. To be real...

Spangs
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10-07-2005

Monday, December 05, 2005 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spangs a private message Print Post    
A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving

Springer
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03-12-2004

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Springer a private message Print Post    
My favorite book of all time is the one I am reading right now called "I Know This Much is True" by Wally Lamb. It is 900 pages long and thank god I am on only on page 175 because I just don't want it to end.

It is about twin brothers Dominick and Thomas who are about 50 years old in current time. Of course the book travels through their lives....but the main focus is on the fact that Thomas has a nervous break-down and it is up to Dominick to take care of him and fight for him while Thomas is in and out of hospital systems.

Newman:
This might be a book you would like, being a twin yourself and 50 years old also. Hope you will check it out sometime. It is one of Oprahs book club selections.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
actually i disagree that only chapter books impact kids - there is a reason i still give new friends of ANY AGE (over 4) "Happy Birthday to You" by Dr Seuss and "The Giving Tree" by Silverstein - both have such strong messages to me and were books i still read.

narrowing it down to one favorite children's book is impossible, so i just list those i read over 20 times as a kid (before age 12) (and some have been mentioned above)

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Arthur, Lancelot, "Mideval English language", need i say more
Robin Hood and his Merry Outlaws by McSpadden
AND Adventures of Robin Hood by Eleanor Graham Vance - the first is a thick CHapter book, the second is one of the best illustrated books, and i would constantly pick up both to dwelve into Sherwood forest)
Johnny Tremaine (how can you forget the burning of his hand)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Happy Birthday to You
The Giving Tree
Little House on the Prarie Series
the WHOLE Narnia series
Russian Fairy Tales edited by Aleksandr Afanas'Ev (648 pages of memorizing stories of Ivan and the Firebird and the cruel witch :-))
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight (and then all that followed but they came out after i was out of elementary school)
Oliver Twist by Dickens - my all time favorite book report when i was 10.
The Best Christmas Pagenant Ever - I agree, the humor and the message were so great, plus the whole idea of poverty.
Black Beauty!
The Whole Wizard of Oz series
Hardy Boys hooked me big time
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Charlotte's Web
Midsummer Nighst Dream (so i wasnt a normal kid)
Alpha Centauri by Robert Seigel
All the books by Artela Richarson (18 and on her own, 16 and away from home, In grandma's Attic - in the vein of Little House but not Little House)
and i admit to all the books with Paul Harvey's stories collected in them. cant even count all the times i have read them over and over again, even with knowing the rest of the story.
Three Musketeers and Treasure Island too - any book that used "Thou" or "Thus" hooked me.

like i said i cant pick one favorite

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
as a kid, definitely the little house on the prairie series and the happy hollisters.
as an adult....hmmm...the first book in the left behind series was excellent. i loved 'watchers' by dean koontz because i have a smart golden retriever (who understands sign language), "the thornbirds", and "the shellseekers" by rosamund pilcher.
i think i have read about 5,000 books, so it's hard to pick only one or even a few!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, January 09, 2006 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Ride the Wind. It's a true story and it's amazing. I absolutely love it.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, January 09, 2006 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
I liked all of the Beverly Cleary books....Ramona and Beezus. I also loved the Bobbsey twins, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, any Dr.Zeuss, and all of the Amelia Bedelia stuff. Oh....and a British author named Enid Blyton.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
OMG Ramona and Beezus! I forgot all about Ramona. I used to get called that because I had that same little bob haircut, messy, all knees and elbows. I was often called Ramona the pest. I can't wait until DD is old enough to read Ramona, the Box Car Children, the Indian in the cupboard, Sideway Stories from Wayside school.... oh good times.