Favorite childhood novels?

What were your favorite childhood novels? I had three that probably sent me on the path of today.
1. My side of the mountain
2. Where the red fern grows
3. Ironside?

The "ironside" novel I cannot find and I may have the title wrong. It was about a boy in the everglades that had a father who was "out of it" and the boy caught rattle snakes to milk for the money. If anyone knows this book, please let me know the correct title. The name "Ironside" came from an old gator he used to see all the time.

Read my mind #2 also

The Jeff White series written right here in Maine by Lew Diaz.
Jeff White young trapper
Jeff White young woodsman
Jeff White young fire fighter
Jeff White young guide

"The Chronicles of Narnia"

"My Side of the Mountain" was very good too. My Uncle David gave me a very worn out copy when I was around 8 years old. He had an excellent library of outdoor books and fish and wildlife management books from attending Hocking Tech. I read dozens of his books. David hunted, fished, trapped, mushroom hunted, did taxidermy and was a great woodsman. He was my hero when I was a kid.

Keith

Readers Digest condensed books,they had a series based on the history of America,the first one was called"the forerunners",a novel about a young man that headed west to be a Mountain Man.

Finster,

It’s Ironhead. Dosnt seem to be in print anymore.

Anything JackLondon. Red all his dog books and several others.

Where the Red Fern Grows for me too.

Joe Dirt

Also all Jim Kjelgaard books

The Hatchet series.

THANKS! It's been driving me crazy! I'll find a copy someplace. I would like to read it again.

Whatever, space peanut.

All Louis Lamour westerns

All of the above along with the books by

Steffen Meader
Willum O Steel
Walter Moray

The Jeff White books are bloody expensive if you can find them I would love to find copys that I could afford

I didn't read books as a kid, they bored me to death. Reading assignments in school were the worst, I truly didn't care as a kid about Anne Frank. I wanted to be outside!

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
The Obstinate Land by Harold Keith
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He wrote historical novels

Yep, Ironhead, by Allan W. Eckert. A favorite of mine, as I lived in southern Florida for a bit as a boy. My Side Of The Mountain, by Jean George also was a favorite. My copy of the Ruark novel The Old Man And The Boy was nearly worn out as well.

Well, there were days it rained but I guess momma didn't give you enough sense to come out of it?

Nope lol. I just seen where Allan Eckert wrote that one book you like Finster. He's one of my fav's. When I got older I was turned on to him and I have several of his books including the Frontiersmen. I don't read so well anymore so I'm looking for his books on tape.

Robert Ruark "old man and the boy"
Louis Lamour read most of them a few times

1. The Voice of Bugle Ann
2. Old Yeller
3. National Geographic

i'm full circle on the nat geo.

Good grief....

Not sure if you’d call them novels, but at one time I read every Louis L’Amour book written. Even later on I’d buy his newer books. Sometime after Uncle Sam and moving around, I lost my entire collection.

Got them all

This times 100x. ALL great books for any youngster that enjoys the outdoors.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ditto Huckleberry Finn.
I always liked Mark Twain's wit and sense of humor.
I also read every thing I could find that Jack O'Connor wrote in the Outdoor Life Magazines.
Corey Ford and Ed Zern articles too in Field and Stream, Sports Afield, etc.

Zim

Where the red fern grows, black beauty, lord of the flies.

My Side of The Mountain
Call of The Wild
White Fang

Louis lamour x 3. Under the Sweetwater Rim my fave

Where the red fern grows...#1 for me

Mine is just call me nobody

The novels by Dr. Seuss were pretty good too. Classics such as 'Green Eggs and Ham' and 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish' are hard to beat.

Trap-lines North by Stephen Meader. Published in 1936

Chris

Oh yeah, nother I remember liking was Borden Chantry

My Favorite set was Tarzan by Edgar Rice burroughs

Where the Red Fern Grows...

John Steinbeck was my favorite author as a youngster. Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, and Travels with Charlie were the best in my recollection. I ought to search them out and read 'em again.

I don't remember the author (can probably google it), but another one I really liked as a second-grader was "Two Logs Crossing". It was about an independent young trapper.

"Old Man and the Boy" was wonderful.

Small Town D.A. by Rob't Traver.

I read every Hemingway novel written by the time I was 14.

My favorites were Death in the Afternoon, The Old Man and the Sea, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Tantor and Sabor!

To Build a Fire
Mobey Dick
Where the Red Fern Grows

https://youtu.be/ielt_9SyyH0

Got them all also, leather bound set for $300 in a gun store. Walking Drum is my favorite and it isnt a Western.

a good book to read to the kids was harris and me... by gary paulson... i read a cpl chapters every night it was hilarious.... they all remember that as quality time !!

Where the Red Fern Grows. Good ol Dan and Ann

Very nice

Tom Sawyer,
Call of the wild
Two against the North.

Call of the wild was good.So was wild trek

Where the Red Fern Grows,not novels but could hardly wait for Outdoor Life to come in the mail and read the stories,The old Trapper and Predator caller and Fur Fish Game,i day dreamed a little too much in school,but did make the B honor roll,just think if I wouldn't have been wishing to be out in the great outdoor doing just about anything other than being in a classroom.

My Side of the Mountain

The Lost World by Michael Crichton. First book ever bought, I was in 8th grade. Still read it about once a year.

Loved many already listed. Haven't seen anyone mention Robinson Crusoe.

Moby Dick , War and Peace, Ulysses , Encyclopedia Britanica A-Z. My side of the mountain. Rascal

Hardy Boys

Judy Blume Blubber

That Ironhead is one expensive book for being out of print.

My favorite was Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein. Had piles of books we could order from school for a dime to a quarter. Still have all of them.

Trap-lines North by Stephen Meader. Published in 1936


YUP

Ruark's "The Old Man And The Boy". For my money, Ruark could write circles around Hemingway.




Charlie

Well, as others have said.

Where the red fern grows!

I’ll add James and the giant peach, also Charlotte’s Web.

That is one of the best books I have ever read. And it is one of the few that I thought was so good that I have actually reread it.
Ruark and Hemingway are both great riders but they have completely different styles.

Not sure if this was in “novel” form, but Ol’ Yeller is a classic

Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Ranger Rick magazine
Outdoor Life magazine
Missouri Conservationist magazine
Dan Frontier book series
Butternut Bill book series

Any books by Daniel P. Mannix, The fox and the hound, the healer, the killers are the top of my list.

There were a few books, Irish Red, Big Red ect.

Reading to your young kids ifs one of the best things you can do for them. I didn't do much of it but my wife read to our sons every night. They often say how much they loved those stories. And they all read a lot themselves when they were old enough. I think it had a lot to do with how well the did in school and life in general.

Box Car Children
Tom Swift series
"Freddy"series by Brooks
Matt Helm series
James Bond series
Black Beauty
Heidi
Books by Alexandre Dumas, (Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo)
And so many more I can't remember them all.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the "Sugar Creek Gang" series.

Where the Red Fern Grows

I also read all the Jeff White books . Most are in my library now. I bought them out of print years later. Very expensive !

Hatchet series and Walt Morey's books

Bruce, those books bring back memories.

Robinson Crusoe

i still read the "see spot" collection before bed.

The series by Ralph Moody which started with Little Britches; Big Enough was another in that series. Can't remember all the titles, but I read them all a few times growing up. As has been said, Louis Lamour and Jim Kjelgard, too.

Jim kelgard books. Big red, swamp cat ect

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Hie to the Hunters by Jessie Stuart

Another vote for My Side of the Mountain. I wore that out.

At 12 I shouldn't have read Amityville horror

That was a bad mistake

I read a small paper back when I was a kid rained in for several days in Canada. I would love to know what it was but I don't know the title or the author.

It was about a boy who had it kind of rough at home. He would go fishing by fast water in a dam or something like a dam close to town and described the red and white dare devil spoon in great detail. He also went hunting once with his uncle, who was a veteran of war, not sure which one, I think Korea. The boy describes burying his head in his uncles Chesapeake Bay Retrievers fur to mask the smell of his uncles booze bottle when opened in the truck on way to blind.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was not exactly an award winning novel but I would like to get a copy for old times sake.

Bump...............

Anyone?

Where the Red Fern Grows. I had a pair of hounds named Dan and Ann. I told about having to dig Ann out of a hole one nite on a thread some time back.

Wanted to see if anyone on the night crew recognizes this book.

"The Pond" by Robert Murphy. Walt Disney made a movie based on this great novel. It was about a young boy growing up in the deep south. He lived in the city and got himself into trouble. His father felt that the best option for him was to live with his uncle in the woods on "The Pond". There he learned to hunt turkeys and fish. His uncle was a muskrat trapper. His uncle and the woods, made him into a man.

Old an and the Boy is pretty good.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
Sherlock Holmes

Big red and the other "red" books with Danny in them were my favorites.