Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[genarti]

Oh, yes! Encyclopedia Brown absolutely; Madeleine L'Engle devotedly; Diane Duane I didn't discover till high school, but adored her once I did. Cam Jansen I've never heard of, and Wayside Stories never really grabbed me.

I loved the first Boxcar Children book, but I only read a couple of the others, because what I wanted out of that series was Plucky Orphans Surviving By Their Wits, and after the first book it hopped genres into Plucky Children Solving Mysteries. I had Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins already for that.