The ever clever Gwen wanted to know what book EC Sheedy remembers most reading when she was a kid…
And I thought oh cool contest post *g*.
EC Sheedy’s answer:
“Oh, and this one is easy, too. I was nine, I think, and the book was ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story of an elderly brother and sister who adopted a boy to help them on their farm. Instead they got a red-headed little girl, they didn’t quite know what to make of, Anne Shirley, a character for the ages.”
EC Sheedy is giving away a copy of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye and a copy of Without a Word!
To enter tell us what you remember reading most as a child…. posts entered before September 21, 2007 will be used in a random drawing on the 22nd. Gwen promises to make sure I remember.
I read The Chronicles of Narnia over and over. And Zenna Henderson’ “people” books!
I was a huge Nancy Drew fan and owned her whole library.
I wonder if we can ever experience a book as adults in quite the same way we did when we were kids. I remember, when I loved a book, being unable to put it down; I’d think about it all the time, even dream about it.
Yes to Narnia, but for some reason, I never read Nancy Drew. Strange . . .
I read the updated Nancy Drew Files series. These were mass market paperback originals that were published in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I never got into “classic Nancy.”
The book that tends to stick out though is Little Women. I read it when I was in the 8th grade and at the time I just couldn’t understand why Jo turned Laurie down. Of course as an adult, I think she made the wiser choice with the Professor. Or it could just be my love for Gabriel Byrne in the Winona Ryder-version of the movie 🙂
My mother was a bad influence. LOL! She’d read out loud to me and, if it was really good, wouldn’t put the book down until it was finished! Even on a school night! No wonder I have such bad habits. *shakes head* I’m infecting my children, too.
My mother, too! She read all the time, and she read everything. She used to take me to all the used book stores around where we lived, and between the two of us we’d really make a dent in their inventory. For some reason they carried a lot of English school girl books. I fantasized about boarding school *hijinks* and stern headmistresses for years after.
Mothers . . . oh what they do to us. LOL
Mine was Nancy Drew.
I remember getting into the Sweet Valley Twins series…then moving on to The Sweet Valley High books, then Sweet Valley College. *G*
As a fairly chubby child growing up overseas, my favourite books were Enid Blyton’s Five Find-outers series and her Twins of St. Clare’s series. I still have those books and hope to hand them down to the next generation!
Me too wendy 😉 still have never read the ‘original’ series but I had all the MM and I remember there being a shit load. Oh and the babysitters club! Then I moved on to sweetvally high which had BOYS on the cover and freaked out my mom.
So I started to read books with plain covers and fell in love with Jackie Collins, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz and must have had every VC Andrews novel and bought them with glee when each ‘new’ one came out. And I should be ashamed to say up until 15 or 16 I had read (and bought each new one that came out) of Danielle Steel.
Then I hit 17, got a car and a job and didn’t read much. I fell in love with Faye Kellerman’s ‘Decker’ series, found an xfiles focus that lead to many years of fanfic, which oddly lead to Dennis Lehane’s A Drink Before the War (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro le sigh). I was very series centric and it wasn’t until I fell for LKH’s Obsidian Butterfly that I started to branch out again from paranormal to historical fiction. But I didn’t read ‘romance’.
Took a friend a few months to talk me into reading shadowheart… and here we are… hmmm what was the question again?
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I always loved Alice in Wonderland.
Hmmm… it would be a tie between Trixie Belden and the Narnia series. I still re-read the latter and am looking forward to sharing both (and more) with my daughter as she grows older.
For me, it was Tolkein. The Hobbit was my first “serious” fiction. I remember reading that book at about 9 or 10 years old and just going, “Wow!” I walked around for days in a kind of fog, carrying that book around. I think I read it five times in a row.
After that it was Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Yes, I guess I was a bit of a geekette. But no acne, eyeglasses or pocket protectors. 😉
Hi EC!!! Your books sound fab! Love a hot romance suspense!
I read lots of the Little House books. I remember checking for more of them on the shelves, all those connecting books! I even remember a couple of years ago I was at the library and saw Little House up on display and I started reading it again! I wished I still had my set from when I was younger! I did get my daughter a couple of the books but she was never a reader and she gave them away! Bummer! I love Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys too. I was into series then as I am now!
You know, I don’t think I remember reading Anne Of Green Gables. Were they historical in setting. I feel tempting to go get one and read, LOL. Books and stories just never leave us!
Anne of Green Gables was set on a small island on the east coast of Canada, Prince Edward Island. And truly, Anne, the little heroine, had to be the reason they coined the word “plucky.”
I’ve never been to PEI, but I understand the island has lots of sites dedicated to this book and its author–and lots of red-headed dolls for sale. I think the book was written in about 1918, but I could be wrong about that. I’m wrong quite a lot!
“After that it was Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”
Yes! Me, too!
When I was very young, I remember reading The Bobbsey Twins, then later, Little Women and Agatha Christie. Never did read Nancy Drew nor Anne of Green Gables, though I did get into her story on the Disney Channel some years back and enjoyed that.
When I was young I read and re-read all the goosebumbs books. Yeah I really loved those! 😀 And Fear street and a lot of other paranormal stories. But when I got older, I read more and more historical romance. And right now, I’m just totally addicted!! I read historical, paranormal and contemporary romance stories. LOL!
For me really early, was Curious George…but shortly after I fell in love with The Hardy Boys (read two)
But once I read Call of The Wild and White Fang, I developed an awe of the writing and never looked back. Just imagine being able to make up stories…wow! Somewhere a seed was planted, then sprouted.
thanks for asking this question….makes me remember when all writing things were possible!
I have several books that were favorites and that I still have: THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George Speare, JANE-EMILY by Patricia Clapp, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L. M. Montgomery and also TRIXIE BELDEN ~ especially the ones that Katherine Kenny signed to me.
I think the first book I remember reading over and over as a child was “Noisy Nora” by Rosemary Wells and then later I graduated to Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and Trixie Belden.
I remember reading Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Richard Scary tales.
I remember my mom reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein to me as a child and me reading it over and over again once I knew how to read. I was touched by the life of the tree who I thought was really loving as well as giving.
I remember reading lots and lots of Enid Blyton books. Her “Famous Five” series in particular is still a big fave of mine.
I devoured Nancy Drew mysteries as a kid. And of course, any story with animals in it like My Friend Flicka, Thundrhead and Misty of Chincoteague (sp)
The stories I remember the most from childhood reading were dog or horse stories like Ladd, A Dog and Black Beauty.And as I got older of course Nancy Drew and The Bobbsey Twins. I loved those stories since I am a twin.
loved sweet valley then vc andrews book, then teen romances
Judy Bloom. I can remember devouring everything she wrote, and then reading them again. I loved Flubber, and Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret?? And I thought I was getting by with so much when I read that one, because it was a little risque. LOL, I still enjoy her books very much.