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Favorite Childhood Books

Posted Jun 10, 2010 by Beth Gaddis

Updated Jun 10, 2010 at 12:43 PM

I was incredibly shy as a child and books were my constant companion.  I remember reading by flashlight under the covers long after I had said goodnight to my family.

I must have read every Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery, plus all of the “Shoes” books by Noel Streatfeild.  I especially loved “Skating Shoes” because one of my best friends wanted to be a professional ice skater.  As I got older, I graduated to Anne of Green Gables and the Sweet Valley High series.  And I devoted hundreds of hours to those choose-your-own-adventure books that were so popular in the 80s!

I still love to re-read a lot of the kid classics, including “The Secret Garden,” “Little Men,” and “Eight Cousins.”