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

[nextian.livejournal.com]

Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Jansen, Wayside Stories, Madeleine L'Engle, Diane Duane...

[zdenka]

Oh, that's right! I'd forgotten until you listed them, but I read all of those except Wayside Stories.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Also loved Boxcar Children, Wayside, and L'Engle.

[eruthros]

Oh man, the Boxcar Children! My friends and I used to play Boxcar Children pretend.

(Also +1 to Wayside Stories and Madeleine L'Engle and Encyclopedia Brown.)

[skygiants]

So did we! I always had to be Violet and carry my friend's cat around everywhere, which was a problem at that stage of childhood when I was afraid of animals . . .

[nev-longbottom.livejournal.com]

Man, I even shortened my name to Nita in middle and high school because of Diana Duane.

[skirmish-of-wit.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of these except Diane Duane. Cam Jansen! I used to practice my photographic memory skills because of those books, except even as a dorky 10-year-old I didn't say "click."

[rosefox]

+1 to all of these except the Boxcar Children and Duane (whom I discovered as an adult).

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I didn't pick up the Young Wizards books until I was an adult either -- a somewhat younger S.O. introduced me to those.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes! Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown, and Wayside Stories.

[matt_doyle]

All of the above!

[sophinisba]

Me too with the Boxcar Children.

[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.