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What was your favorite childhood
book?
BY JULIE WIATT
 Katie
McLaughlin: "Katy and the Big Snow. Katy was the
bulldozer. I liked that the bulldozer was named Katy. Also
Caddie Woodlawn. It was one of the first chapter books
I ever read. I read it in our cabin in New Hampshire. I liked
that her name was Caddie and she was a tomboy in the late
1800s, my favorite time."
Donna Firer: "I read Nancy Drew stories nonstop all
summer in middle school. I'd go to my friend's house and we'd
get a blanket and lie in their side yard and read and drink
lemonade. I associate that with the freedom of summer."
 Tom
Bryant: "McGuffy's Reader. I read it way back in
1929-30. I was just 6, just starting first grade. I liked
how they humanized animals to show relations between humans."
Madelia Hayes: "I liked nursery rhymes the best. Tiffany
likes to read her Bible."
  Bryce
Tugwell: "Island of the Blue Dolphins. I grew up
in California. I could look out and see the Catalina Islands.
I was an adventurous kid, and it made me think of going out
and living on those islands."
Sylvie Briscoe: "The Secret Garden. Or The
Twits, by Raold Dahl. I liked The Secret Garden because
it made me feel I could do whatever I want, whatever I can
imagine. I'd look around for secret gardens, and I found one,
late one night when I was 18."
 Mary
Jane Muchui: "Charlotte's Web. I loved it because
it showed that something like a spider, that people don't
like, that they fear or hate, saved the pig Wilbur from being
slaughtered. I like pigs. I don't eat them. I lived near a
farm and got to know some pigs. They would come when I called,
like dogs. I cried when Charlotte died."
Aristide Jude: "Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham,
and The Cat in the Hat."
Shadi Bowlding: "Poo Poo and the Potty. It's
a good book. They have it at the Takoma library."
 Alex
Musto: "Dr. Seuss. The Lorax. The story was so
much fun, and planted the seeds of activisim in me. It was
just so hopeful."
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