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Captain Underpants & Other Greats

@gonewiththewind - I loved Beverly Clearly's books, especially Runaway Ralph and Ramona. But also because we have the same first name. Loved The Stand - read it during Finals Week in college one semester instead of studying.
 
jesskab said:
8yr old boy is all about Pokemon guides these days. I miss the days when he read a Cam Jansen book every day.... Encyclopedia Brown.
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This was me - these were my fave kid detectives and I bought various ones with them for DD and she begrudingly read them but she suprised me by asking for more and really liking Encyc. Brown (instead of just rolling her eyes! #mumwin !)

DS (7) has read most of the Wimpy kid books too but is all about Tom Gates these days (he wants to be him (a doodly kind of sstick figure!) for Book Week dress-up and he may have been persuaded to wear a poster board with pictures of him instead - i drew them (not hard really) but he was amazed at the likeness and how good i was at drawing #myrockstarmoment ;)
 
When I was younger I loved RL Stine books, The Babysitter's Club, and Anne of Green Gables, the Ramona and Beezus books, Super Fudge. When I got older I loved VC Andrews (still do), Stephen King, Danielle Steel, and Nora Roberts...just to name a few.

My kids loved the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Captain Underpants, and Junie B. Jones. I tried so hard to get my daughter interested in Babysitter's Club. They were the only books I managed to keep from my childhood. Sadly, she never caught the Club bug...LOL
 
Well, back in my day...and yes, that's WAY back I loved the Nancy Drew books. There was nothing else like that where the girl was smart and full of spunk. I also read any and all fairy tales, and soon recognized that the same tale might be told in some variation all over the world. I found that fascinating. Later in grade school, I won The Secret Garden for a writing contest. A real favorite it was and I later lived in Yorkshire which amazed me to think that I ended up in a place I had read about!

My boys had the traditional nursery rhyme books and my older one had most every English Ladybird book that was printed. I wish we still had them looking at the prices on eBay. The only one in this set (£19.99) I know we had was The Soldier.
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Later my elder son really liked a set of books similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, about a middle school aged boy whose divorced father has a girlfriend or new wife that he calls 'the stick insect'. Again a British set of books. Anyone recall this one??
 
Man, where to start. Both my boys are readers (the eldest one is trying to be a writer). At the moment my 13yo is still loving any Rick Riordan books (Percy Jackson etc). He also has read some of The Magician series by Raymond E. Fiest (one of my favs too) and is just starting to read The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. Fantasy gets a big look in here...

My daughter was not much of a reader until she started on Harry Potter (god bless Ms Rowling) and then she got right into it. She hated Twilight but loved Hunger Games. Dystopia wins over supernatural everytime.

I grew up reading Anne of Green Gables, Encylopedia Brown, Trixie Beldin (Jim, first modern literary crush) and any Enid Blyton (Famous Five Secret seven. Also loved Little Women and an Australian series called Poppy Treloar.

Moved onto Stephen King and Virginia Andrews in high school - also bizarrely at that age had a thing for pre revolutionary Russian novels, Dr Zhivago types. Can't read horror now...
 
So guess what we read tonight?! None other than captain underpants (i cant remember which one but DS picked it out of a new stash of books and made me listen (ahem) i voluntarily listened to the first 2 chapters... but he fell outwside and there were all sorts of tears and scrapes and blood and so i didnt argue. Strike it up to freaky Oct coincidence or is there some shennanigans going on?!
 
I know how you feel @jenevang ! I saved all my books I enjoyed growing up, feeling like I was saving treasure. But only one of my three kids has appreciated them.

Here are some of the books/series my kids enjoyed the most when they were around the ages of yours.
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Harry Potter
Anne of Green Gables
Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hobbit
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
 
bellbird said:
So guess what we read tonight?! None other than captain underpants (i cant remember which one but DS picked it out of a new stash of books and made me listen (ahem) i voluntarily listened to the first 2 chapters... but he fell outwside and there were all sorts of tears and scrapes and blood and so i didnt argue. Strike it up to freaky Oct coincidence or is there some shennanigans going on?!
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I happened to find it on the bookshelf at goodwill yesterday on 50% off day! I picked it up, just because of this thread! :giggle
 
For me it was Cowboy Sam. They were created in the 50s as primer readers for schools. The first book was simple and they got harder as the series went on. I grew up in SoCal, so I just loved anything Western, especially Native American history. So, reading the books let me "live" on a ranch and dream of what life would've been like.

My kids were big into Dr. Seuss when they were little. My DS would giggle non-stop when we read the Cat in the Hat. They both had years of speech therapy so they were years ahead of their peers in reading, so it was hard to find age appropriate books that were challenging. Neither of them were big into Harry Potter, but they loved the Narnia series. When my DD was in middle school we came across the Mother Daughter Book Club series. We both read them, and they were lots of fun.
 
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