Hello! It’s Tuesday, which means time for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today’s topic is “Books I Wish I Had Read as a Child,” but I can’t think of any, so I’m going to make a list of books kids like. I’m going to get my own kids involved in this! My youngest loves Middle Grade and some YA books (I’m happy to say he’s read 10 Marie Lu books), so I’m going to split today’s list between books me, my boy, and my girl liked as kids.
Prince Tanis
My boy likes Lauren Magaziner’s books like I like Marie Lu’s. He adores her Case Closed books. Lucky for him, when coronavirus shut down our library, he happened to have one of these books checked out.
Here’s another Lauren Magaziner book that my boy loves. He read The Only Thing Worse than Witches a while back, and loved it. These books have adorable covers.
Sensing a pattern here? Wizardmatch was the first Lauren Magaziner book my boy read. We don’t own any of these books (although if she ever comes to The Tattered Cover I’d definitely bring him and buy a book for her to sign for him) but our library has a good selection of these.
Here’s a book that’s not by Lauren Magaziner! Wanna take a quick guess as to how Prince Tanis started reading the Spirit Animals series? Anyway, I was going to only give each of my kids 3 books for today’s list, but he loved this series so much (and he read the entire series, unlike me, who’s only read this one) that he wanted me to give him four book picks today.
Prior to discovering Lauren Magaziner, my boy pretty much exclusively read Minecraft books.
Laurana
My daughter didn’t really want to participate (she says she can’t remember what books she liked as a kid) but I did get her to agree that she liked these three books. One of the book series she liked as a kid were the Percy Jackson books. I think she’s read all of them.
My daughter was also into the Warriors series when she was younger. Our library didn’t have all of them, so she didn’t get the chance to read them all, but she read several of them.
My daughter also liked reading the Michael Vey books. I’m pretty sure we have all of these. I still haven’t read any of these yet, even though I want to at some point. Oh well.
Me
I loved the Little House on the Prairie books when I was a kid. I read this entire set several times. When my daughter was little I read most of these books to her. I’m not sure how far we got, but I know I read The Long Winter to her. Sadly, I let my daughter borrow my boxed set and she pretty much destroyed it.
My grandma got me interested in reading the Anne of Green Gables series. I think my favorite was Rilla of Ingleside, the last book in the series. I ended up inheriting my grandma’s set. I still need to read these again.
I can’t really think of another book that really stood out to me like the first two books. I did like Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume though. I remember (in 4th grade) my teacher, Ms. Cheron, reading this book to the class. I think she followed up with Superfudge too. These were great books.
So there are ten books that me and my kids liked as kids! What books did you pick for today? Next week is “Things I’d Have at My Bookish Party.” I have no clue what I’m doing for that.
I definitely should have read Percy Jackson earlier (just read it last November!) and the Little House on the Prairie. Great list!
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I still haven’t read Percy Jackson yet!
Can’t remember what books she liked as a kid?? Your daughter and I are…very different people. (I say, currently on a quest to create a list of every book I’ve ever read because my existing record didn’t start until the ripe old age of 14)
Totally agree on the Little House and Anne series being childhood greats.
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I’m not sure if she truly didn’t remember, or if she just didn’t want to participate. She’s not even 18.
Great list! Considering I read so many animal books when I was younger, I’m surprised I never read the Warrior books.
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There are so many! I read a lot of horse books as a kid.
I loved the Percy Jackson books when I was a kid, I found them when I was around 14 and completely devoured the first five books in a matter of weeks.
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I’m not sure how long it took my daughter to read them, but I remember we were always getting them at the library. They seemed really long for her at the time, but I guess length doesn’t matter if it’s a good book!
I only just read Anne of Green Gables for the first time last year, and I loved it! So charming!
Awesome! Have you read the rest of the series?
What a fun list! And, yeah, Rilla of Ingleside was a lovely way to cap off that series.
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Every time I talk about that series on TTT I want to read it again! I think I’d want to read my grandma’s original set though, which means going into the garage.
I’ve never read any of the Warriors books but I love the idea of them, and honestly I’ve been tempted a few times! I love that they even have a map. 🙂
I read a few of the Little House books as a kid. Good stuff. 🙂
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Ooh there’s a map?!?
I think so? The ones I’ve looked at have a map of the surrounding farms and whatnot. It looks fun. 🙂
I loved reading all 3 of your tastes! I also loved Little House as a kid. I can remember my mom reading it to me.
I read it to my daughter when she was little!
I love that you got your kids involved! I was also a big Judy Blume fan as a kid. I had a wonderful fourth grade teacher who would read books to us using accents. It made them very memorable! Great list!
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Accents are awesome. It’s almost like listening to an audiobook!
Ohhh!!! I love this and lists like this because (other than the Percy Jackson series) I didn’t know any of these titles. So I am learning all sorts of new things this tTT!
Awesome! I see so many new books on your lists too.