there was a childhood book I loved called RAGS   about a sheepdog that had long hair.  I  also had the stuffed dog that book was based on. Poky Little Puppy  was cute,  and that is still around today!!   I  loved anything by walt disney--  also  the fairytales...and yes,  Grimm's fairytales too.  Heidi was another favorite.   and who can forget the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Bobbsey Twins/Five Little Peppers and How  they Grew series?  I too read some of the classics,  Swiss Family Robinson, Kidnapped,  Treasure Island,  Island of the Blue Dolphin, Black Beauty  and Walter Farleys Black/Red Stallion series.   Oh,  I read alot  during my school days.  Books were my way  of 'traveling the world'

Oh Kitty! I cannot believe I forgot about Heidi! I even wanted to be her when I was about 5! Swiss Family Robinson too along with Robinson Crusoe. Black Beauty made me cry.

Wholocked- I loved reading The Faraway Tree stories and many Roald Dahl books to my kids when they were younger. The BFG, James and The Giant Peach, The Twits, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and, of course, Matilda. They are great stories with great characters aren't they.

Hmmmm---  yes,  you do change a bit,  when you read books.   Sometimes I wanted to just crawl into a book and stay there. another childhood favorite of mine were the Happy Hollister books.     there was another series called the Boxcar Children--Henry, Jessie, Violet,  and Benny.  Absolutely loved mysteries back then.  I remember the Hans Christian Anderson books!!  yes  I read some of the roald Dahl books.   Anyone remember Aesop's Fables?   Oh  boy.  How did the camel get its hump?   yes that was in there.   

My dad got these two  joke books for my mom  when us kids were growing up.  The Elephant Joke Book  and the other one that went with it.   (What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?   It's time to get a new fence!)   Mom still has those.

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As a kid, my absolute favourite was A Series of Unfortunate Events. Daniel Handler (whoops, I mean Lemony Snicket) basically spawned a genre of wonderfully quirky kid-adventure books, and I read a lot of the copycats too, like Eddie Dickens and Drift House.

Harry Potter, too, of course. I read a lot of Meg Cabot books (which in retrospect were hardly appropriate for my age group when I was reading them)

When I was very young I read Junie B Jones. I don't even know if they ever exported those to the UK. They were a little young for me even when I was just starting to read them, because as a kid I had almost no friends and spent most of my time reading, so I'd moved onto HP PS/SS by the time I was in first grade.

I share Roald Dahl with a lot of people in this thread. He was one of my absolute favorites. Confession: I occasionally read Matilda or The Witches, still. I'm such a child, ha ha.

I liked Artemis Fowl and other Eoin Colfers as well, though unfortunately by the time the sixth and seventh had come out I had definitely outgrown the series. They took far too long to come out.

I would check in my bookshelf for more but I actually just donated a big pile of books yesterday so I can't. I only gave away the ones I never liked, anyway, so no great loss there.

Oh Lordy! I've done it again...Little Women, What Katy Did and What Katy did Next! I really, really wanted to go to boarding school because of reading those- never went though. 

Anne of Green Gables   I  only  read the first one, now I've got   a mind to go and read the rest of them.   Yeah  I  read  some of the lemony snicket books,  but it wasn't until after the movie came out that I was interested.  were there more than one  Little Women books? Oh, I wish I were a kid again, to do the things I did again...lalalala

'Little Women', 'Good Wives',  'Jo's Boys' I can't remember whether there were any others.

Edit  Just checked, there was also 'Little Men'

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My childhood books, that is quite a task, I did read so much sometimes I did only stop because I had to go down and eat what my mother cooked. I did love all sorts of books with adventures but most of the time they would be written for people elder than I was at the time.

I did read "The Hobbit" I got it from my child-docter when I had a pneumonia, after that I read "Lord of the rings"

I loved "Balduin Pfiff" from Wolfgang Eck and "Kommissar Klicker" I can not remember who wrote it

I do love until now everything from James Krüss especially "Mein Urgroßvater und ich"

I did read everything of Michael Ende

And I got into Isaac Asimov because of the big SiFi collection of my fathers, I really loved the robot-stories

The Lensmen-cyclus from E E Smith was also one of my favorite books but sadly enough my father did not have all of the books

When I got into key teens I read Umberto Eco "Das Foucaultsche Pendel" and "Im Namen der Rose"

Also all of the Dorothy L Sayers Stories with Lord Peter Whimsey

all of them besides of Sherlock ;)

My beloved childhood books were:
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Detective Kalle by Astrid Lindgren (a trilogy)
Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren

and other books in my language, these are not internationally known I am afraid.

All Astrid Lindgren, some "typical girls books", The Neverending Story (book, NOT the movie!).
And when I was very little this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar