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51. I'm 63, so Nancy Drew was just about the only game in town for girl heroines at the time.

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 12:39 PM

Jul 2018

I wasn't into The Hardy Boys because they were, well, boys.

I also loved a little encyclopedia set my mom got from some grocery store--if you bought a certain amount, you could get another volume. They were hard cover and were about 100 pages per volume. I think there were 10 of them, and for the life of me I can't remember now what they were called. I also loved weather books. I've been a weather geek ever since I can remember. It might have something to do with the roof being blown off of our house during a tornado when I was a year old, lol. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness, but I've always wondered if that started my weather geekiness.

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What did you read as a child? [View all] Cartoonist Jul 2018 OP

Encyclopaedias Xipe Totec Jul 2018 #1

Fiction group Cartoonist Jul 2018 #2

Encyclopedia Brittanica, National Geographic, Anon-C Jul 2018 #55

My favorite book MichMary Jul 2018 #3

Wow.. I remember that book. 1960 for me . likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #11

Just out of curiosity I looked it up MichMary Jul 2018 #18

I looked too! Used hardcovers are $200! likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #21

I read all the Nancy Drew books Ohiogal Jul 2018 #4

Beezus Cartoonist Jul 2018 #6

We had a bunch of Bobbsey Twin books MichMary Jul 2018 #20

I read the trixie beldon series. My daughters read them all. My one daughter still has them. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #31

Tolkien and Castaneda - as a 6th grade child thbobby Jul 2018 #5

I missed out. Cartoonist Jul 2018 #9

Oh bravo for you. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #54

The hobbit thbobby Jul 2018 #61

Tricia Beldon was an early favorite and my sisters Nancy Drew series was... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #7

Trixie Belden, I think that's the name. I read all those, plus Hardy Boys and Nay Jul 2018 #22

Yeah, I had stacks of books in my room and though... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #26

I used to go outside under a tree to read -- so peaceful! And yes, my bro and I Nay Jul 2018 #28

Yup. All things considered I am so grateful to have grown up when I did... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #41

Bookworm here, read everything I could get my hands on. lark Jul 2018 #8

Same here. I read practically everything in our small rural grade school library early on. Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #16

Loved the fairy tales. The yellow book, the red book, Hans Christian Anderson. So many books notdarkyet Jul 2018 #33

OMG, I love this post. lark Jul 2018 #37

Me, too! I am sitting here with a wonderfully nostalgic grin plastered on my face! Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #43

Book lovers unite!! lark Jul 2018 #45

Biographies, mainly and books about dogs-- hlthe2b Jul 2018 #10

Read every biography in the library. Later found out they mostly weren't true. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #34

I was trying to remember that title. lark Jul 2018 #46

All the Little House snowybirdie Jul 2018 #12

I, too. loved the Little House books. Ohiogal Jul 2018 #13

Yes! snowybirdie Jul 2018 #24

Stephen King and Dean Koontz, mostly... Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #14

i love love both of those authors, have all Stephen King books to date & lots of Koontz's too. lark Jul 2018 #19

The Koontz Frankenstein books are very interesting. You'll like them. Zoonart Jul 2018 #27

My mom (an English/Psychology graduate) always Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #32

Damn, I totally forgot the Mark Twain classics. lark Jul 2018 #36

I'm still a huge King fan, but I've grown to loathe Koontz. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #50

You'd think a dog lover would have compassion for people. lark Jul 2018 #59

Love my books Bayard Jul 2018 #15

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Nickodemus series. Frustratedlady Jul 2018 #17

I read adventure stories and thrilling suspense novels. procon Jul 2018 #23

I loved The Three Investigators series MichMary Jul 2018 #25

Little House Books and Charlotte's web helped shape me into a vegan mucifer Jul 2018 #29

Read a few Hardy Boys and a bunch of the Encyclopedia Brown stories... Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #30

Judy Blume, RL Stine...then King and Koontz in early teens backtoblue Jul 2018 #35

Comic books cyclonefence Jul 2018 #38

I went from 'Nancy Drew' and 'The Bobbsey Twins' to historical biographies before my teens Siwsan Jul 2018 #39

I read Nancy Drew murielm99 Jul 2018 #40

"We Were There" historical novels. Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes dameatball Jul 2018 #42

"The Mad Scientists Club", "Miss Pickerel Goes to Mars", "The Incredible Flight ... Mushroom Planet" eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #44

Watership Down highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #47

Great book, but not Tolkien. It was Richard Adams. dameatball Jul 2018 #62

Haha highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #66

Oh okay, very much agreed. Thanks. dameatball Jul 2018 #67

From the time I was 4 everything with words TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #48

YESSS..I hear you. anything with print. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #57

I've found my sister. TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #63

Mr. dixie and I have learned to watch our movies separaely. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #64

The Happy Hollisters Auggie Jul 2018 #49

Hollisters Cartoonist Jul 2018 #60

I'm 63, so Nancy Drew was just about the only game in town for girl heroines at the time. catbyte Jul 2018 #51

Elementary school MyOwnPeace Jul 2018 #52

Nancy Drew. And then I went through my brothers' Hardy Boys! fierywoman Jul 2018 #53

The first "real book" I remember reading Docreed2003 Jul 2018 #56

Books my dad would give me MFM008 Jul 2018 #58

So many books, from the time I could read. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #65

First, Tom Swift Jr., later Edgar Rice Burroughs Number9Dream Sep 2018 #68