As usual, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fantastic blog The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s topic was Top Ten Books From Your Childhood/Teen Years You’d like to revisit. I decided to split my list in half between favorite childhood picture books and middle grade books!
Childhood:
1) Madeline– My absolute favorite childhood book, Madeline was my childhood role model. When I was eight I even got to “meet” Madeline at a Nordstrom Madeline brunch, and I had a lifesize Madeline doll!
2) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom– A close runner up for my favorite childhood book, my copy is so old and battered and I compulsively have to pick it up when I come across it. I also can’t read it without reading out loud. It’s so catchy!
3) Franklin– I loved the Franklin series! I had a lot of his picture books with the little read-a-long cassette tapes.
4) Jesse Bear- These books were gifted to me by my aunt and some of the first books I read when first learning how to read!
5) The Ramona Quimby series– I LOVED Beverly Cleary. She was my favorite childhood author.
Middle Grade
6) The Baby Sitter’s Club series– I was OBSESSED. I still have all of my BSC books and I especially loved all of the mysteries and super specials! (My favorites were Dawn and Stacey).
7) Amelia’s Notebooks– These were so fun to read! I still own most of them!
8) Bloomability– I love all of Sharon Creech’s books, and this is my favorite next to Walk Two Moons. I loved that this one explored Europe!
9) The Westing Game- I love love love this middle grade mystery. It’s like a game of Clue.
10) The Nancy Drew series– If you’ve been following my blog for a while you know I’m a huge Nancy Drew fan! Nancy is sassy and progressive for her time, and her mysteries were always intriguing. You can read more about my love for all things Nancy Drew here.
What books made your list this week?
I adored The Babysitter’s Club. I really liked Dawn. Your list has made me really nostalgic. 🙂
My list has quite a bit of throwbacks on it! I wish they would re-release the babysitter’s club series, I think a whole new generation would love them!
I loved Nancy Drew when I was younger! As far as picture books go, I loved anything by Dr. Seuss and ones like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. They were so cute! It’s funny how we distinctly remember what our favorite books were so long ago!
YES If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was SO cute! And it spiraled into a million other “If you give a ___ a ____” A favorite to be sure! I would really love to revisit my Nancy Drew books soon if I have the time (I still own mine)
There’s loads of these I’ve never heard of! I was expecting today’s lists to be quite repetitive with loads of us loving the same books, but it’s great to see the variety we read as kids!
My TTT: https://confessionsofabookgeek.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/top-ten-tuesday-books-from-my-childhood-id-love-to-revisit/
I was too, but it’s so fun to see what our parents and teachers introduced us to when we were little!
So many good ones! I absolutely loved the Amelia notebooks.
They’re still fun to look through!
Sharon Creech was THE BEST! I absolutely loved her books. Amelia’s notebook was one of my absolute faves too. Great picks!
Sharon Creech’s books just felt so heavy (in a good way!) for Middle Grade. I also love how some characters in certain books made appearances in others!
Three cheers for Bloomability! I loved all of Sharon Creech’s books when I was a kid too. The Wanderer was my favorite, so much so that I’m determined to name my first born daughter Rosalie (prettiest name ever, right?).
I haven’t read the Wanderer, I’ll have to add it to my TBR!
I love ALL of your choices! I didn’t even think about Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – great pick! And Beezus and Ramona.
My TTT!
I loooooved all of the Ramona books!
Having a ton of elementary school flashbacks with Madeline and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I think I actually read that one to my kindergarten buddy when I was in the fifth grade.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom was the BEST book to read out loud with someone! Too much fun!
Oh my goodness I forgot about Franklin. HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT FRANKLIN? THIS IS AN EMERGENCYYYYYYY.
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
FRANKLIN WAS THE BEST
YAY another person who read Amelia’s Notebooks! I loved those stories and the illustration! I wish I still owned them. 🙁
They were so creative! I loved the ones where you could actually pull out the letters between her and Nadia and read them!
Wow I am feeling so nostalgic looking at your list. I absolutely loved Bloomability and Amelia’s Notebooks!
I feel like Bloomability is a lesser known Creech novel (compared to books like Walk Two Moons) so I’m glad so many others have heard of it!
Nice to see someone go really young on their list! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is the BEST.
My TTT: http://bookclubbabe.net/2015/03/24/top-ten-books-from-childhood-id-like-to-revisit/
It’s so much fun to read out loud! “A told B, and B told C…”
I LOVED Amelia’s Notebook. I think I still have mine, too.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to part with them!
I loved Amelia’s Notebook! I think I still have mine, too.
OMG AMELIA’S NOTEBOOKS <33333 YES
BEST MIDDLE GRADE SERIES EVER AM I RIGHT?
Oh Madeline! I loved this book! I also remember waking up early every Saturday morning to watch it on TV!
The show was too
cute!
Awww, awesome picks^^ I can’t believe I forgot to add The Babysitter’s Club to my list this week! I used to love those, I think I read all of them…unless they’re still coming out with new ones LOL I never read Nancy Drew growing up though, I’m not sure why – maybe cause I want to a French school – but I wish I had 🙂 Here’s my TTT post this week!
Micheline @ Lunar Rainbows Reviews
As far as I know the BSC is unfortunately not being printed any longer 🙁
I totally forgot about Ramona and Beezus. Definitely some of my favorites (:
I loved Beverley Cleary!
Oh! I LOVED Madeline!! I loved the books and the show haha! I kind of want to read Madeline right now.
She was just so sassy
There are SO many of these I’ve never heard of! Great list for investigating, but not so good for my TBR! Lol R x
Lol I commented twice, but with pretty much the same comment. I’m nothing if not consistent! R x
The Westing Game for sure!! I used to have a copy but somehow it isn’t on my shelf anymore… *cries* I just remember being terribly confused about what characters lived where and what the ending was all about but I feel like if I read it again now I might get a lot more out of it. Great post!
Laura @BlueEyeBooks
I’m planning on rereading it this year!
Madeline! Oh, Madeline! I loved Madeline before I even knew how to read. We used to have one of the books. I’m not even sure if it was the first one, but I used to make my mom read it to me all the time. I was obsessed with the dolls, the show, the movie. Everything. I even remember playing computer games for Madeline. I got in trouble on my birthday one year because I told a classmate who I to this day cannot stand, “Poo-poo on you,” and gave him a raspberry. I remember being her for Halloween one year. I wanted to be a ginger so bad because she was one. Yeah. While other girls my age wanted to be a princess, I wanted to be a redheaded schoolgirl in Paris. My obsession was bad. It probably is one of my strongest obsessions I’ve ever had. I read Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and loved it. I tried to read some of her other books (Ruby Holler and Chasing Redbird) without realizing they were by her. I think I just didn’t finish them because something else caught my eyes. Either way, I need to read more of her books and reread Walk Two Moons.
I LOVED Madeline too, but my childhood obsession was with Sailor Moon! I literally thought I WAS a sailor scout! Also, a schoolgirl in Paris doesn’t sound too bad for a childhood fantasy- you could’ve grown up to be like Anna from Anna in the French Kiss 🙂
I definitely think Madeleine, Chicka Chicka, and Westing Game are books that everyone should read.
Thanks for your list!
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Definitely BSC and Nancy drew