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Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:55 am
by EndlessLaymon
For me personally it was R.L Stine. I have very fond memories of reading his Goosebumps novels when it was storming outside in the mid of night.
I must have read Night Of The Living Dummy II about fifty times in a two year period . He was actually the guy who got me into reading. I have a lot of respect for that guy as his books bought me much joy as a youngster .
So what were your guys and girls favourite writer as a kid?
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:42 am
by Kevin
EB White on the strength of Charlotte's Web. If this is a double post it is unintentional.
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:07 am
by Chris OConnor
My favorite childhood author would be
Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. I also was quite fond of the Danny Dunn series and the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. But I don't even know who the author was for those books. The author probably changed over the years.
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:36 pm
by DAWintsmith
Dr. Seuss. Loved his riddled prose, still do. He also wrote adult books. I have one called the Seven Lady Godivas in which, you've got it, the ladies are unclad!
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:25 pm
by Kevin
Chris OConnor wrote:My favorite childhood author would be
Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.
As well as a fair number of saucy stories! I always considered Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the movie, to have something of a sadist angle about it. Probably this was influenced by the fat kid getting sucked down the drain, or whatever... then I read the author behind it and decided my suspicion was a correct one. Dahl is a writer I can't quite geta handle on, and this is after reading (most likely) all his short stories.
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:09 pm
by Ang85
My book I read most as a child was The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams and I also loved Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was my favorite...I don't have some kind of strange bunny fixation, I swear!
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:16 pm
by olelukoi
I have to say Astrid Lindgren, Brothers Grim, Hans Christian Andersen and Brothers Mormarev (Bulgarians), Nikolai Nosov (Russian)
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:22 pm
by mzspaztastic
The Babysitter's Club series!!!!
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:59 pm
by sherri
Ann M. Martin (The Babysitters Club series)
Francine Pascal ( The Sweet Valley High series)
Re: Favourite Childhood Author?
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:24 am
by leehyat
I loved all books by Enid Blyton. I was also hooked on the Nancy Drew mysteries and the Wednesday Witch series by Ruth Chew.