Books I loved reading as a child:
Several gigantic books of fairy tales & nursery rhymes
Betsy-Tacy series
Everything by Beverly Cleary (I was Beezus Quimby! I yearned to live on Klickitat Street)
(I was Anne Shirley, too) Anne of Green Gables series
Nancy Drew
Trixie Belden (I never wanted to own a horse, however)
Dancing Shoes, Ballet Shoes, Skating Shoes, and the rest
Little House on the Prairie series
Encyclopedia Brown (being a detective would be cool, though)
The Phantom Tollbooth
Donna Parker (I know--but my Grandma gave them to me)
Blubber, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Izzie's House...and of course, the rest
The Great Brain (still great reading)
Black Beauty (seriously, was not into horses)
A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan
The Against Taffy Sinclair Club
Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Black Cauldron
True Grit
Heidi
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Cricket in Times Square, Harry Cat's Pet Puppy, Tucker's Countryside
Sing Down the Moon
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
The Secret Garden
Susan Brown, Camp Counselor (you guessed it, Grandma)
Mama's Bank Account (I wanted to live in another time)
The Black Stallion (NOT into horses, I tell you)
Kitty in the Middle
In Grandma's Attic
Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins
The Trolley Car Family
Pippi Longstocking (orphans of all kinds intrigued me)
Queenie Peavy
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
The Borrowers
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Jacob Have I Loved
Caddie Woodlawn
Tuck Everlasting
All of a Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
A Little Princess (the best orphan tale of them all)
Peachtree Island by Mildred Lawrence
The public library's summer reading program was a big deal for me. I was the skinny girl with scabby knees and a raggedy ponytail getting her card stamped twenty times every week and telling the librarian far more than she ever needed to know about the books I was returning. I fantasized about reading every book on the library's shelves--going around the entire room and devouring them. Every. Last. One.
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