Books you loved reading as a Kiddo

every dramatard secretely loved HP as a child it's what made everyone here transphobic with subliminal messaging.

Mom said it was satanic, never got to read it

They arent bad, the meme was read another book for a reason. If they sucked the meme would be something akin to "still a better love story than twilight"

Fun fact my 4th grade teacher who is still in my top 3 faves read a chapter of the book every day after lunch and we had just started the fricking hospital when the year ended and he got fricking canned (something about taking us out to play dodgeball 3 times a day) so i was blueballed for literal years until i sucked it up and googled the ending.

These were great, although I found the ending pretty unsatisfying (which I guess was the point).

I completely forgot about unfortunate events

James and giant peach was good too

I tried that series but it was so utterly up its own butt that I just couldn't get into it.

Wow I totally forgot about this, I loved this too. I dont think I ever really understood it but the pretty pictures were great

I fricking loved these

The one with the badger was the best! I think 🤔?

Good books

I respect how boxcar children just kept going and going even after the original conflict with the boxcar was resolved

its like if I wrote a book about a hostage situation that gets resolved at the end, and then I wrote thirty sequels about the wacky hijinks that the hostages got up to afterwards

I remember Among the Hidden. I don't think the first couple books were too interesting, but the later ones explored more of the setting. I remember one called Among the Enemy where the protagonist ends up training for the Population Police. I reread that one a lot.

Animorphs master race

Thats ok! At least you're not a furry

These were sweet. While they were definitely kids' books, they had the feeling of being a book that was a bit too old for you. It was like a turbo edgelord got to write an 80's Saturday morning cartoon with absolutely no editorial oversight. The Chronicles books felt like insane sci-fi movies you could read. The book format allowed for a lot of experimentation with stuff you can't do on TV or film, both the level of violence in a kid series and the degree of creativity in creatures, settings, worlds, etc.

❤️

At school we'd dare each other to look through that book as we thought the art was "r rated "

I used to read that at home as a kid, I'd be so scared, especially about the scarecrow and how it'd stuff people that freaked me out

Oh I read that book in 5th grade, we even saw the movie as a last day of school "treat"

The axe scene gave me nightmares

I read that book for a summer assignment and God darn was that a good book. That shit had me crying at the end

Its unreadable garbage and i have yet to meet someone who has actually read jt

the subtitlist was absolutely checked out at this point

"you know what? it's just gonna fricking kill you. is that good enough for the kids?"

(it was)

The first one was definitely the scariest. They really introduced a lot of horror concepts to kids that most other series didn't. I respect how Goosebumps went beyond just "scary monsters" and dipped into concepts like "accidently making your little sister cease to exist" or "going down a slide forever"

Those and the dragonlance books

I highly recommend following up with the adult version, The Prince