Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Nostalgia

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over @ The Broke and the Bookish

This weeks topic is: Top Ten Childhood Faves

1. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

This is the first book I remember reading and loving. I got it for Christmas when I was 7, and I pretended to fall asleep so my Dad took me to my room. The minute he left I turned the light back on and started reading. 

2. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Honestly, I don't remember specifics about this book (which my friend, Kelly, would probably smack me upside the head with her copy for) but I just remember adoring it - and in the end that's what matters, yeah?

3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

I was eleven when my mom bought this for my younger brother. When he showed little interest, my mom began reading it out loud to both of us. A chapter a night. Since then, we've been very much a HP household. 

4. Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana Gregory

I was OBsessed with the Dear America series - I had them all and I devoured. This one was my favorite, I was seriously fascinated with the Oregon Trail. 

5. Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

I was also obsessed with the Royal Diaries and also had them all. Because, hello, it was like the closest thing to actually being royalty. 

6. Baby Sitter's Little Sister by Anne M. Martin

I was a little too young for the Baby Sitter's Club, so I was a member of the Baby Sitter's Little Sister club - I got a book in the mail every month.


7. The Giver by Lois Lowry

Ahh, the beginning of my love for dystopia. I'll always always love The Giver.


8. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle

My mom tried to get me to love the Wrinkle in Time series, which, I'm sure I would now if I read them again - but I preferred this book of L'Engle's. Plus...it's dolphins...which brings me to - 


9. Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

I also absolutely loved Sing Down the Moon. 

10. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today/ Said little Peggy Ann McKay/ I have the measles and the mumps/ A gash, a rash, and purple bumps" - That's right, I used to have the whole poem memorized.