HIT: Favorite books YOU like to read

[Diane Chen <ChenD@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US>]

We Love to Read Our Favorites!

Anytime the discussion of LM_NET splitting comes up, I will remember how
many varied letters flooded my mail when I asked which titles we love from
our childhood and read over and over again. One of the joys of being a
library media specialist is the chance to talk about books! Please enjoy
this hit of your favorite titles with numbers after indicating how many
times it was cited and ignore some of my typos (I received a huge number of
replies):

the A.A. Milne books (Winnie the Pooh, etc.) 3
Alice in Wonderland
Anne of Green Gables and sequels 9
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Beauty: A Retelling Of The Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
The big snow by Elmer and Bertha Hader
Blue Ribbons for Meg and Old Bones at the running of Kentucky Derby.
Bobbsey Twins
The Borrowers series 2
The Boxcar Children series 2
Buffy and the New Girl- a Little Golden Book based on the TV show "Family
Affair"
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
A child's garden of verses
Cinderella and folk/fairy tales
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Solitary Blue
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Door in the Wall
Dr. Seuss books (all) 4
E.B. White books (Charlotte's Web, etc.) 4
the Egermeier's Bible Stories
Ellen Raskin books
by Ellenberg(?) Betty June and Friends
Five Children and It, sequel isThe Story of the Amulet
The Five Little Peppers (and the 5 sequels) 6
GeneStratton Porter titles (Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost, etc.
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Hans Brinker 2
Hardy Boys 2
Harriet the Spy
Heidi
Henry Huggins series by Cleary
The Hobbit
everything by Judy Blume
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little house books 7
Little Engine That Could
Little Prince
Little Rabbit That Wanted Red Wings (interesting that they sort of contrast
in morals - the first is to put forth a positive goal and work hard to
reach it, the second is to be
content with who you are!)
Little Women (and all the sequels Little Men, Jo's Boys) 12
A Little Princess,
Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly
Titlting Planet
KING OF THE WIND by Marguerite Henry
Mandy by Julie Andrews (publ under Julie Edwards
Maria Gripe's The Glassblower's Children"
Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-Tacy series
McElliot's Pool by Seuss
Mop Top by Don Freeman
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Nancy Drew series 7
Naria Chronicles 3
Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster series
Phantom Tollbooth 3
The Pokey Little Puppy
Pushcart War
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Ricka, Ricka, and Dicka
Robin Hood
Secret Garden 4
Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
The Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr books  2
Snow White
The Snowy Day
Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series
the Thornton Burgess animal books
Tom Sawyer
Tom's Midnight Garden
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tree Wagon
Uncle Wiggly series
"The Wisdom of Solomon"
Wizard of Oz series 5

There was a purple storybook--I have no idea of the title or
author/editor--that had such stories as "The Little Pig Who Wouldn't Go
Over the Stile" and "The House that Jack Built." Those two were my favorite
stories.

some Australian children's classics - The Muddle Headed Wombat (Ruth
Park),Blinky Bill (Dorothy Wall), Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (May Gibbs), and
The Magic Pudding (Norman Lindsay)

Our favorite seasonal books:
Polar Express
The Littlest Angel
Miracle on 34th St.
Yes, Virginia, There is A Santa Claus
Twas the Night Before Christmas
"Over The River"

Our favorite more challenging books we read as children:
To Kill a Mockingbird 2
Dracula
Snow Falling on Cedars
Jane Austen books ("Pride and Predjudice," "Emma," etc.)
the Annabelle and Edgar Johnson (?) books  (esp. "Torrie")- and other
historic fiction, with a touch of romance!
Agatha Christie
Gone With the Wind
The Sound of Music
Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre

Now, I can't speak for all of you, but I need to go back to my bookshelves
and pull out some of my favorites to reread while I'm still on Spring Break.
Happy Reading!
Diane

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Diane R. Chen, Library Media Specialist
Hickman Elementary School
3125 Ironwood Drive  Nashville, TN 37214
Telephone: 615 885-8956
ChenD@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
DianeRChen@aol.com

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