What did you read as a child?

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38. Comic books

Little Lulu especially--weird stories there. Mary Poppins books, Nancy Drew (old enough to have racism rampant in them). All the "shoes" books by Noel Streatfield. Lulu's Window, obsessively, over and over. Eleanor Estes--the Moffatts, Rufus M., all of them. Then I, too, discovered Charlotte Armstrong and was hooked by sixth grade.

The first book I ever read to myself was "Peterkin's Hill," and I've searched and searched for it without success. I probably have the title wrong. It was about a little girl named Jemima and her father, who was a Quaker and used "thee" and "thy'. I distinctly remember lying on the living room couch and refusing to come to dinner because I was almost done with the book. Amazingly, I was allowed to stay and read.