Favorite Book is probably Golem in The Gears by Piers Anthony, from the Xanth series. It's been a while since I read the book, but I remember loving all the characters of the series. Not sure if there's a moral to follow, but its probably why I tell so many lame jokes and puns >>; Those books are full of them.

Read god old Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit growing up. Also enjoyed some R.L. Stein books too, I rather liked the more mature stuff as a child.

I guess it depends what age you consider "growing up". When I was really really little I loved Serendipity books. My favorite was Glitterby Baby but I loved pretty much all the ones with horses lol. Later I got really into Harry Potter and Jack London books. Call of the Wild is still a favorite of mine. I should re-read those soon.

"One-Hundred and One Dalmatians" and "The Starlight Barking" by Dodie Smith. Most people are familiar with Disney's movie...but the original book is a whole lot better and a whole lot more interesting. Pongo's mate was not Perdita in the book...but Missus. Perdita was a liver-spotted Dalmatian that the family adopted to help Missus feed all the puppies. And..."The Starlight Barking" is the not-well-known sequel, about the original 15 puppies lives as they grew up and were in homes of their own.

Also..."Bambi" and "Bambi's Children" by Felix Salten were amazing books, which were very different and deeper than Disney's movie. :) There's also a little-known book called "The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West" by Mary Stanton, which is epic like "Watership Down"...but with a more fantasy slant and featured horses. (Yeah, I've read a lot of books where animals are the main characters over my lifetime...)

As an adult...there are still excellent animal-hero/heroine books that adults can read, as well. "Fire-Bringer", "The Sight" and "Fell" by David Clement-Davies are utterly fantastic. Incredibly thought-provoking animal fantasy books. The first about Deer and the second two about Wolves. Both have kind of a dark-fantasy leaning towards them, but are good reads for adults who may still enjoy fantasy books with animal characters. (I do read regular fantasy, too...and Carol Berg is my favorite modern fantasy writer!)

Goosebumps :3

Where the Red Fern Grows was one of the first books I really hooked onto as a child. This was in spite of the fact that I had harry potter available, Gregor the Overlander Available, and quite a few other books available. Only other book that happens to stick out in my mind is a long one about a knight in red armor. And really even then, there's like..one scene from that that I still remember..which involves him having disappeared for a very long time, then coming back one day without saying a word, lowering his jousting pole, and jousting the best knight in King Arthur's lands, besting the man and sending him sprawling into the snow off his horse.. then the rest of the men surround the guy and start chattering at him because the guy he just beat was a pompous buffoon, and he opens his visor, notices the deep imprint where the loser just fell and pulled himself out of, and the tracks, and just suddenly exclaims "SOMEONE WAS JOUSTING HERE!!!"...and people then realized "holy shite..this guy just beat our best guy... in his SLEEP."...that was a funny scene to me.. it still sticks in my mind.

One of my favorite books of all time growing up was The Swiss Family Robinson. It's been a few years since I read it, but it's probably my most reread book. I just loved the idea of being stranded on an island away from civilization and being forced to survive off the land. I really loved their "oddities" collection cave too. I've got something of an oddity collection myself, and I'd love to add to it properly one of these days. Another of my favorite books growing up was Island of the Blue Dolphins. Similar theme as The Swiss Family Robinson, but the protag was alone rather than having a family to survive with. Shit, Lord of the Flies is up there too. Huh, noticing a theme lol.

I grew up reading the Redwall series and I loved all the books and I don't think I could pick only one but then during the last year of high school we had to read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It started off rather slowly but I found I just couldn't put the damn book down and I binge read through out the next couple days. To this day I haven't found another book that has swayed me like this one with the simple message of follow your dreams. I guess it's the old tea shop owner that was my favorite character ;w;

Honestly this is going to sound super cheesy but when I was but a wee lamb, I loved "my dog Henry" or something like that. It was this cute lil series about a kid who "goes on adventures" with his dog, who was the smart one and was actually solving crimes. But when I was old enough for actual solid memories my favorite books other than fairy tales became the Harry Potter series. I remember as a kid reading the first book at all hours of the night, hiding under my bed and rereading it by flashlight, quickly turning off the light when I heard my parents near my bedroom door.

For as wonderful as the whole series is, I will always love the first book more than any other book in the world. When I felt alone, and hated, and like I had nothing else left to live for, I just opened up Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone and suddenly someone understood. I empathized soo heavily with Harry as a kid... He was literally locked in a cupboard under the stairs, I was literally locked in a hallway closet. His parental figures were horrid, my mother was never there and my dad stormed around like a goddamn T-rex. Every time I read a description of Uncle Vernon turning colors I could just picture my father doing the same like he did every day.

Long story short (too late I suppose) my favorite character is Hagrid, because he's the one who lifted Harry up with one simple sentence. "You're a wizard Harry." With that one sentence, Hagrid brought Harry out of the darkest depths of his life and into the fantastic world of Witchcraft and Wizardry. To this day, when I am sad, scared, depressed, or so sick that I can't move on with my day, the first Harry Potter book gives me what I needed so desperately as a child; hope.

Hell, when I'm having a really bad day at work, I write out the words from the door to Gringotts on my locker. "Enter stranger but take heed of what awaits the sin of greed, for those who take but do not earn must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors a treasure that was never yours THIEF, you have been warned, beware, of finding more than treasure there." (from memory)

The Frisson book collection https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/collection-frisson
Even as a kid I liked horror and scary stuff.

Oh jeez, this is a tough one. Tough because I'm really tempted to give a really silly answer.

So! I didn't have all that many books growing up. Our school had a teeny tiny shed-sized library with only two five foot wide and six-ish feet tall shelves. It was actually kind of a Christmas-like occasion to go to Barnes & Noble when I was really little, 'cause I lived in a really rural town about an hour's drive from the city. Like, I lived on two acres of land with two neighbors, surrounded on all sides with cane sugar or soy fields. Oh, and there was a place up the road that sold fries and deep fried pig fat. We were pretty far from civilization.

So it wouldn't be until I turned about seven or eight that I moved closer to the 'city', and going to a mall became a regular thing to do. Then I'd start reading manga- my older brother was into it, and aside from Dragon Ball Z VHS's, that's basically all he'd spend his money on -and eventually The Hobbit, The LotR books, Harry Potter, Dune... basically, aside from assigned reading, that was it.

Harry Potter was definitely my favorite. I think any time I could get away with it, my book reports in school were about the Harry Potter books. Most of them could be summed up as: "These books are so not just about wizards you don't even know." Because like, yeah! They were loaded with classism, and racism, and slavery-- I was always really taken aback that Mr. Weasley was relegated into a lower class, a mundane career, and poverty basically because of his political beliefs. Fred and George were definitely my favorite characters from the series. They had a humble beginning that never kept their spirits down or undermined their own strong personalities. They were incredibly talented wizards, and when Umbridge made it impossible for them to adapt, they did something kind of unheard of in the wizarding world: dropped out and made their own way. And they were extremely successful! They knew what they wanted to do, had the ambition to do it, and escaped poverty by doing it. Really spoke to me as a kid 'cause of where I was at at the time.

So yeah uh, Order of the Phoenix is probably my favorite book from the series.

Now here's the hard part: I really wanna answer with 'Fallout 1 and 2.' I know those are video games but like, hear me out: Those games taught me to read, you know? I'm not even kidding. I was five years old the first time I beat Fallout 1, which you can't really do without being able to read. I started writing fiction from a really young age because of them, so they were really influential to me in my formative years. They taught me that atmosphere and strong villains, preferably with sophisticated motives, are extremely important. I guess I won't get into it any more than that though 'cause, you know, those aren't books. But yeah!

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