As a young girl I loved the Dr. Seuss books, especially Horton Hears a Who and McElligot's Pool. Funny though, I hated Green Eggs and Ham until I was an adult. Once I was reading on my own, I loved Nancy Drew. A whole new world of children's books opened up to me when I had children. I was exposed to so many more (the number of books written exploded after the 1970's) and now have a whole new set of favorites. A favorite, favorite of mine and my daughters is Cherries and Cherry pits by Vera B. Williams. I also love Margaret Wise Brown. The Run Away Bunny is one of the best ever.

I loved The Hardy Boys. My dad had a lot of them from when he was growing up and I read them all.

The Three Investigators was another one of my favorite series. I loved anything by Beverly Cleary or Judy Bloom. A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle, Bambi by Felix Salten, the Narnia Books, and any book that had animals in it. I also liked the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

Here's a second mention for Where the Wild Things Are.

I had this enormous book filled with all kinds of fairy tales - my favourite was one about three Princesses with glass hearts, of which two died and the third happily married. Also, I was brought up with Jacques Vriens Meester Jaap (Schoolteacher Jaap) and all the verses and stories of Annie M.G. Schmidt. And Thea Beckman's Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek, which has been made into a movie, albeit in English one (A Crusade in Jeans). And when I was six or seven I was really hooked on Enid Blyton. Oh, and Roald Dahl, of course.

I find it very fascinating to read foreign language children's books nowadays. I loved Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

The Phantom Tollbooth.
Ella Enchanted.
Where the Wild Things Are.
The Giving Tree.

Enid Blyton Books
Grimms Fairytales
Andersen fairy tales
Roald Dahl [I can't choose between them]
Harry Potter series
Narnia series
Seven Little Australians
Little Women
Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass - the REAL version
Moomin books
J.M Barrie's Peter Pan [the novel version that he wrote - which came about in 1911]

There are heaps more but I can't grasp at the titles at the moment.

When I was little, I liked this sesame street book, about grover telling the reader not to turn the page because there's a monster. What's that called?


I read a lot of lemony snicket and harry potter as a kid. I also liked Roald Dahl.

That's called The Monster at the End of this Book. I loved that story as a child and my daughters love it now. I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned the Anne of Green Gables series. I loved that series. I read it over and over. So many other books. I was teased for reading during class, but I think it was worth it. Where the Red Fern Grows, The Giving Tree, A Wrinkle In Time, etc. I could go on and on.

Green Eggs and Ham
Double fudge
Holes
Captain Underpants

umm Captain Underpants books were pretty awesome
Goosebumps were some of my first chapter books, and they were pretty interesting
and series of unfortunate event were pretty good too