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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 6:15 am
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?
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Educatedsista
Member
10-17-2005
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 7:36 am
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
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 7:26 pm
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!
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Monday, November 28, 2005 - 7:20 pm
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.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Monday, November 28, 2005 - 11:42 pm
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.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 4:54 pm
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.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:57 pm
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
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 7:00 pm
Charlotte's Web Little Women Can't remember the exact title, but Christmas Pageant (with the horrible Herdmans)
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 9:35 am
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)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 9:59 am
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.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 12:49 pm
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.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 1:21 pm
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).
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 2:13 pm
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.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 3:20 pm
I remember the Misty books! I forgot all about those!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 3:42 pm
Ack! How could I forget Black Beauty!?!?!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 4:08 pm
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.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 4:12 pm
Anne of Green Gables....
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, December 02, 2005 - 1:36 pm
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...
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Spangs
Member
10-07-2005
| Monday, December 05, 2005 - 8:48 pm
A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving
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Springer
Member
03-12-2004
| Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:51 am
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.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, December 30, 2005 - 7:21 am
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
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 4:40 pm
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!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 8:45 am
Ride the Wind. It's a true story and it's amazing. I absolutely love it.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 9:13 am
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.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:05 am
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.
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