What is Your Favorite Childhood Book?

[ACME A12]

Rascal. Still like racoons to this day as a result...despite their reputation for being trash pandas...

 

[cosgig]

I always liked this book, and have my copy from when I was a kid. I loved the “Rollie pollie, pell mell, tumble bumble”part…..seems it was a message to the future of falling down a lot?

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

This was my favorite

 

[Cranky]

Sad Sack

 

[cosgig]

There was a chapter book I remember called Dragster Summer or something like that. It followed this young lad who played the piano, and got a job playing at some country club over the summer. With his paycheck he bought an old high wheeler 32 Ford and proceeded to hop it up and drive it around town, and eventually got it to the drag strip, despite having to hide his passion from the country clubbers in fear of losing his job. As I recall, his mama wasn’t too happy about the old 32 either, once she found out. I wish I could remember the name of the book, it like to have it again.

 

[padam]

This one. Spoiler alert....Steam shovel digs a foundation for a building and he can't get out so they convert him into the furnace.

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I loved that book.i was working on my son's house with him, and was trying to tell him about it, but my memory is not too good.

 

[themechanic]

Though not a book, this short story captured my imagination as a young boy. Its called To Build a Fire written by Jack London.

"To Build a Fire" is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written.

 

[themechanic]

I also enjoyed reading biographies on Knute Rockne and Jim Thorpe when I was a kid.

 

[padam]

Though not a book, this short story captured my imagination as a young boy. Its called To Build a Fire written by Jack London.

"To Build a Fire" is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written.

Is that the one where the guy sets off on his own when it's -40, even though he knows he shouldn't?

 

[themechanic]

Is that the one where the guy sets off on his own when it's -40, even though he knows he shouldn't?

Don't forget the dog. Apparently, he was joining up with some buddies at a camp in the Yukon. Weather took a bad turn, -70, broke through ice, got wet...

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Call of the wild
Adventures of Robin HooD​

 

[Duckmanreno]

Those with German upbringings will know this book and the terror it brought.

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I’m half German and was born there in 1963. Mom made a point of not raising us German, unfortunately didn’t teach us to speak the language.

 

[Duckmanreno]

The year of the Jeep.
The main character was doing all these odd jobs to try and buy a jeep.

 

[kiwigtx]

I see someone else is a fan, I have 2 copies of that book! Old & new! I could eat about 169 pancakes about now!

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Made from pure Tiger Butter.

The story about Pippi Longstocking used to scare the crap out of me as a kid.

 

[padam]

Don't forget the dog. Apparently, he was joining up with some buddies at a camp in the Yukon. Weather took a bad turn, -70, broke through ice, got wet...

I think about that story every winter. It was told from an odd perspective, was it the dogs?

 

[themechanic]

I think about that story every winter. It was told from an odd perspective, was it the dogs?

I don't recall. Maybe I'll read it again.

 

[Imperial One]

Hilarious video. She is about pissing herself as she reads it:

 

[ESOXER]

I don't read, I can but not my nature. Just can't. I believe this guy wrote books, but I could watch and am forever in envy of his life and accomplishments. I wish I could do what he did, except I'd be shooting animals with guns not a camera.

 

[ZR9B]

For some reason I had every Gunnis book of world records as a kid...to this day when I see one I pick it up and get sucked in. The wife bought me the 1999 one in 1999 as a joke....little did she know it was my favorite Christmas gift that year.

 

[65Bel]