What were your favorite childhood books?Answer

Books read in your formative years can shape the person you become just as much as parents, teachers and friends. What were some of the books that you remember most from your childhood years?

These Happy Golden Years

These Happy Golden Years
ByLaura Ingalls Wilder

1943 • 56 Readers • 7 pages 3.6

The Witches

The Witches
ByRoald Dahl

1976 • 368 Readers • 199 pages 4

Meet the Boxcar Children

Meet the Boxcar Children
ByGertrude Chandler Warner

1998 • 3 Readers • 48 pages 3

The End

The End
ByLemony Snicket

2006 • 248 Readers • 324 pages 3.8

Heidi

Heidi
ByJohanna Spyri

1880 • 9 Readers • 334 pages 4.3

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 1,200 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

Emily of New Moon

Emily of New Moon
ByLucy Maud Montgomery

2020 • 320 pages

Why this book?

when I was roughly 8 years old, my mom went to an estate sale and came back with pretty much all of the books L.M. Montgomery published. Emily was the first one I cracked open, and has remained my favorite of her books ever since <3

(PS: it's better than Anne of Green Gables.)