Have you ever gone back and tried to find a book from your childhood?

After I had my son I got nostalgic and was thinking about my favorite lift-the-flap book that my grandmother used to read to me when I was really little. I didn't really remember the name, so I did a search with what I did remember and found out that it had only been in print for one year in 1971. I didn't hold out much hope that I would be able to read it to my son. But for Christmas that year, my stepfather managed to find me a nearly perfect copy of Lamont the Lonely Monster. Awww.

Of course I have gone back and found books from my childhood, and have done so all my life. Some are classics and easy to find, such as "Charlotte's Web" and "The Boxcar Children". Others, such as a little reader that was special to me when I was about 6 years old, eluded me for years and years, but I finally found it, and paid the asking price so that I would have it at home all the time with me.

I do not find any of them awful. Some I find even lovelier than when I read them as a child, such as "Blue Willow", by Doris Gates.

There was a book I used to take out of the library for weeks on end and kept renewing it for months. It was this big activity book of things to do on rainy days, for kids. How to make paper airplanes, or magic tricks, all sorts of stuff. Ive tried and tried and tried and just cant locate that same book though as I can't remember the exact title. It would be nearly 20 years ago too, so goodness knows its probably out of print...

I remember loving a book called Dance, Kayla when I was in fourth or so grade. I still know where to find it on my local library's bookshelves and I see it now and again. I've thought about checking it out and reading it but I haven't.

There's another book called Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd which was splendid when I read it around fifth or sixth grade. I read it several times, but not recently. I have a feeling it would STILL make me cry.

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I first read Saint Exupery's Little Prince in Katherine Woods' English translation when I was 13 and found it utterly amazing. Three years later I knew enough French to read it in the original. I read it again when the Hindi translation was published (Chhota Rajkumar) and gave copies of it to many friends of mine. Of course I have since read many interesting books besides that one and as Thomas Aquinas would have it "hominem unius libri timeo" (meaning "I fear the man of a single book"). But Little Prince is certainly one of the very few books one could read over and again and find new meanings as one grow older. Lalita.

I have :) Sometimes I'll pick up the book and read it again and still love it - like Ella Enchanted, for example, never seems to get old. And sometimes I'll read the book with my mouth open, wondering how I ever could have tolerated reading it - like in the case of the Animorphs.

Yes, when I was in 2nd grade, I remember seeing a book in my classroom titled "Vinny's Hiccups". Back then, it was the best book in the world. But now that I think of it, the book itself was cheesy. I think I only loved the title, mainly because my name is in it. I recently went to a book shop and saw it there, brought back memories.

Yeah. i've done that with books and video games and movies..recently i just bought a nintendo 64 because as a kid i remember i LOVED it, and when i got home and played the games, they sucked balls. i was soo pumped to play all the games from when i was little and then i was so bummed cuz they sucked

Yes. I found a book for my dad called Half Magic that he used to love.