Books...Books...Books....

On someone's blog there was a contest for people naming their favorite children’s book, I am too late to enter that (the prize; books for married women did not really fit my single state anyways), but it got me thinking about my favorite books.

I do not know if I can choose….I was a HUGE reader and like different authors at different stages of life, but here are a few of my favorites for me in my pre-teen years.

Willard Price and is Adventure series, eg Lion Adventure, Amazon Adventure. Based on two boys who travel around the world capturing animals for zoos and the adventures they got into. Really focused for boys to read but I loved the adventure and animals.

Laura Ingalls Wilder and the books about her childhood.

Maurice Gee. A Kiwi author who wrote “Under the Mountain” and the “Halfmen of O” series. Scifi/fantasy books.

Roald Dahl’s books eg, “The BFG”, “The Twits”, “The Witches”, “George and the Marvelous Medicine”. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

"Caddie Woodlawn" by Carol Ryrie Brink. In the same vein as Laura Ingalls.

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Nancy Drew detective series by Carolyn Keene

The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

Now I still LOVE novels and my favorite authors now include:

Agatha Christie

Stephen Lawhead

Francine Rivers

Frank Peretti

Karen Kingsbury

Terri Blackstock

Dee Henderson

It is times like this where I wish I lived a lifestyle where I stayed in one place was able to collect books.