I REMEMBER |
BOOKS I READ AS A KID
Titles: Afraid to Ride (C.W. Anderson) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) First to Ride (Pers Crowell) The Good Master (Kate Seredy) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Heidi (Johanna Spyri) The Incredible Journey (Sheila Burnford) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Lad, a Dog (Albert Payson Terhune) Lassie, Come Home (Eric Knight) My Friend Flicka; Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (Mary O'Hara) The Nancy Drew Mysteries Old Yeller (Fred Gipson) The Red Pony (John Steinbeck) The Robe (Lloyd C. Douglas) Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little (E.B. White) Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss) Treasure Island, Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Virginian (Owen Wister) White Ruff (Glenn Balch) Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) The Bible Books and stories by: Louisa May Alcott C.W. Anderson James Fennimore Cooper Walter Farley (all the Black Stallion and Island Stallion books) Marguerite Henry James Herriot Will James Jack London (especially White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf) Margaret Cabell Self Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper) Laura Ingalls Wilder Other kids' books that I read later or read to my kids Titles: Adam of the Road Amelia Bedelia Babe, the Gallant Pig; Pigs Might Fly (Dick King-Smith) Encyclopedia Brown books Frog and Toad books The Great Brain books The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien) How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen (Russell Hoban/Quentin Blake) The Littles Madeline The Narnia Chronicles (C.S. Lewis) Nate, the Great books Rosie's Walk Shiloh (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) Books by: Quentin Blake Karla Kuskin Arnold Lobel William Steig My favorite book is the Bible--I have read it many times and continue to learn new and fascinating things each time. I also enjoy books about the Bible, horsemanship, education, issues and current events, and some biographies and historical fiction. As I get older I have become attracted more to non-fiction than fiction. I am pleased to see my grandchildren also surrounded with books as they grow up. |
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