I was a voracious reader as a kid (and still am as an adult), some of my favorites:
* Chronicles of Narnia (I once worked for a bookstore, my first purchase with my first check was a hardcover set)
* The Miss Bianca books
* Oz - The Road to Oz and Ozma of Oz were my favorites
* Also by L. Frank Baum - The Sea Fairies (mermaids!)
* Little House books
* E. Nesbit - 5 Children and It, The Enchanted Castle
* Ballet Shoes (and all the other shoe books by Noel Streatfield, although that's the best)
* Heidi
* Black Beauty
* Caddie Woodlawn
* Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
* Anne of Green Gables
* Strawberry Girl
* Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Wild Swan, Stuart Little
* Harriet the Spy
* From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
* Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
* DragonSong by Anne McCaffrey
* The 100 Dresses, The Witch Family - Eleanor Estes (she has lots of good stuff)
* Beverly Cleary - all of em, from Ramona through to Mouse on a Motorcycle!
* The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
* Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
* Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blubber
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Matilda
* The Great Brain
* Encyclopedia Brown
* The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
* The Littles by John Peterson
* The Borrowers by Mary Norton (I had a weird obsession with tiny things)
* The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (and a weird obsession with impoverished English children)
* 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
* The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
* Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Paterson
* Bambi by Felix Salten
* Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
* Sounder
* Where the Red Fern Grows
* A Little Princess
* The Secret Garden
* Jack London - Call of the Wild, White Fang
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