CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

I was just wondering what CAA member's favourite authors were when you were a child.

Mine were:
- Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (graphic novels)
- C.S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
- Roald Dahl - BFG, Matilda, the Twits etc
- Ted Prior - Grug (very early picture book reads) nostalgic!
- Paul Jennings - (Australian) King of weird, wacky and utterly original short stories (TV series "Round the Twist" was made up of some of his stories).

Anyone know any of these authors? Strangley enough they are all Australian or English.
I'm sure there are more good authors but I can't think of them at the moment.

Please share your favourite children's authors!

Whoever wrote the Angelina Ballerina books. Oh, loved those!!!

Yahoo, someone here appreciates the greatness of Herge! I love Tintin!

I grew up reading

Enid Blyton (she wrote children books, too numerous for me to list)
Herge (Tintin)
Roald Dahl (Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Witches)
Adaptations of classics (Little Women, Black Beauty, Great Expectations bla bla)
erm...can't think of anymore for now.

I didn't really read "Sweet Valley Twins" and "Fear Street" though<--- those titles were the craze in my high school years ^_^;;

Louis Sachar - Wayside Stories, etc
Roald Dahl - Matilda
R.L. Stine - Those cheesy goosebumps books

I LOVE Louis Sachar's books!!!

Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis and Dr. Seuss are what come to my mind...

C.S. Lewis -- The Chronicles of Narnia seem to be a popular favorite.
Madeleine L'Engel -- A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters. I still love her books.
Meredith Ann Pierce -- Birth of the Firebringer, etc. I just recently discovered it was a trilogy... and bought the other books too. Still love them.
Walter Farley -- The Black Stallion books. I was horse crazy.
Any other horse books I could get my hands on.
I loved the Serendipity books, by Stephen Cosgrove and Robin James. Anyone know those? They're for little kids, and they have beautiful illustrations and always a moral lesson. I still love those, just because they're so beautiful. I'll post a pic of one.

JRR Tolkien- The hobbit
C.S Lewis- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.
Frank Peretti- The Cooper Kids adventures
Herge- Tintin (its cool more than one person actually knows about this)
Goscinny and Uderzo- Asterix comics
Those French really write good graphic novels. I liked Tintin and Asterix, but now I actually get a lot of the jokes, which weren't really for kids.
Did anyone else read those other graphic books by Herge, with that monkey and two kids? I can't think what they are called.

C.S. Lewis ~ The whole Narnia series. I loved them. ^^
Carolyn Keene ~ Nancy Drew
J.R.R. Tolkien ~ Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit
Dr. Seuss ~ I still have those books. Is he still alive?
Joanna Campbell ~ The Thoroughbred Series.

And others... Ha, I can't remember.

Oro! girl - The book's you are talking about are called The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko. Jocko was their cute pet monkey. There are five books featuring them (two double comics and a single comic adventure.

As everyone probably guessed Tintin is my favourite character and the adventures are my favourite reads.

Sunako - Dr. Seuss (very memerobable) can't believe I forgot him. He would be dead now or something like a 100 if he wasn't.

Mr. Smarty Pants - I remember enjoying the Goosebumps books to but some of them were a bit "dark" for children.

Mave - Enid Blyton was a very good children's author. I love lollies and all that so you kind of get a sugar fix when you read the Magic Faraway Tree and some of her other books.

Its great to see some people know of Tintin! I've heard its not that popular in the US. In Europe it is extremely popular and in here in Australia its fairly popular, but comics (of any type) don't have the status here that they do in Europe, US, Japan etc

Keep the posts coming.

Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:Sunako - Dr. Seuss (very memerobable) can't believe I forgot him. He would be dead now or something like a 100 if he wasn't.

V_V He is sorely missed.

Dr. Seuss
whoever wrote Amelia Badelia!!!
Luis Sachar
Ann M. Martin--Baby Sitter's Club
Frank Peretti--still is favorite!!
C.S. Lewis

Oh my gosh!!! Amelia Badelia!!!! Louis Sachar!!! How could I have forgotten those two?

My favourite books... when I was a kid

C. S. Lewis - Chronicels of Narina
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan books
Laura Lee Hope - The Bobsey Twins books
Astrid Lindgren - the most of the books and movies
Herge - Tintin(of course I read all the comics)
Enid Blyton - The Famous Five and The Secret Seven series
Franklin W. Dixon - Hardy boys

He was asking for the authors we read as CHILDREN!!!! @.@;;; Why is everyone posting massive book authors all over the place?!?!?! Wow.....

I read::
-Dr. Seuss!!
-Berestain Bears...I don't think spelled that right...
-Amelia Bedelia author too!!! ^^
-Ann M. Martin...I read her "Little Sister" series...
....And now I can't remember the rest...^^;;

But I still go back and read all of my favorite childhood books over again. We keep them for our younger brother..but he doesn't read them...I don't understand...when I was little, I read anything I got my hands on.

When I think of "children" I think of a person in the age between 5 and 14 so, the books I have read in that time is the one I mentioned... and more off course, but those were my favourites...

when you are younger yuo are a baby, and older you are a teenager or a youth

Um... well... I'm not sure if thirteen is still a child.. (i think 13 shouldn't be considered a "child") But when i was really tiny (around 3-7 years old) I was obsessed with the Berenstien bears! (I don't remember the author's names... but I think there last name was Berenstien.... >"<) Mom would read one of them to me and my brother EVERY niight. And EVERY night me and my brother would argue over which one to mom would read to us. >^^<;

I <3 the Berestein Bears!! I only have 4 or 5 of their books though...And my mom used to read to me too!!!!!...I didn't know it...but she did.

EireWolf, I remember the Serendipity books! Those were popular at my grade school for awhile. Yes, the illustrations were very appealing!

As a child some of my favorite books were nature guides and animal/dinosaur (nonfiction) books. Fictionwise, when I got a little older I liked The Chronicles of Narnia, I likec animal books like the dog stories by Jim Kjellgard and The Black Stallion books. AS a younger child, fiction I enjoyed included the Beatrix Potter books, Henry and Angus (don't remember the author), and Babar the Elephant books. The books and stories I enjoyed usually involved animals as the central characters or in a major way.

I can only remember remember one book series growing up.
Animorphs!! The wonderful K. A. Applegate!!
Dude. . I can't believe none of ya'll read Animorphs. BTW wouldn't that make a great manga??

Sorry I forgot Animorphs. I've read them all I think. There are around 20 aren't there? Anyone remember the tv show? It wasn't badly done at all.

Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:Sorry I forgot Animorphs. I've read them all I think. There are around 20 aren't there? Anyone remember the tv show? It wasn't badly done at all.

Actually there's 54. . . 56 if you count the megamorphs. . . 59 if you count the three novels. 61 if you count the Alternamorphs. The TV show was crap compared to the books. I watched it none the less though.

stan and jan berenstein!

and goosebumps, it wasn't dark... it was all like "i'm a 12 year old 6th grader in middle school! and i'm not afraid of anything! I wear day-glo shorts and blue teeshirts all the time"

*kid turns around, and sees a kid with a monster mask*

"AAAHHHHHHH A MONSTER"

5 seconds later

"I wasn't scared! I was just pretending to be scared! I was testing you"

I also loved whever wrote Amelia Badelia! >^^<

omg i remember one of those books! where she did everything literally. Like draw the drapes, and such. I looked up the author, it is Peggy Parish, and is the illustrator Fritz Siebel?

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:stan and jan berenstein!

and goosebumps, it wasn't dark... it was all like "i'm a 12 year old 6th grader in middle school! and i'm not afraid of anything! I wear day-glo shorts and blue teeshirts all the time"

*kid turns around, and sees a kid with a monster mask*

"AAAHHHHHHH A MONSTER"

5 seconds later

"I wasn't scared! I was just pretending to be scared! I was testing you"

Dude I know. . I had those too. My first one was when the two kids turned into ghost dogs. That was pretty tight when I was a kid. Then Animorphs came to being and I revolved every breath around it.
Tasuki: you mean like you do around that Naruto show now?
Addy: Yea exactly like that!!

Sorry, by reffering to Goosebumps as being dark I meant it sometimes boarded on the occultic and I don't think that's good.

Tolkien, Dr Seuss, and whoever wrote the Mandie Series! ^^

Doh. I didn't read as much as a child as I would have liked to. I enjoyed reading pulp fiction for kids like "Hardy Boys Case Files" and "The Three Investigators" and Roald Dahl books, the first one I read being an Afrikaans translation of "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" as well as an Afrikaans translation of "George's Marvelous Medicine". A South African author I liked to read, occasionally, was CJ Langenhoven.

In retrospect I would have liked to have read "The Chronicles of Narnia" but I read those when I turned 21. Doh. Would have done me more as a child.

KisaTohru wrote:Tolkien, Dr Seuss, and whoever wrote the Mandie Series! ^^

YEAH! Mandie! good series.

Tintin? I used to watch that on HBO when I was a kid! Jump Snowy JUMP!!!

I never read a lot as a child. In sixth grade I got hooked on Michael Chriton, mostly because of the Jurassic Park novel. But I grew to like many of his other works like The Andromeda Strain, Sphere (my fave), and Eaters of the Dead.

I can still remember my favorite books as a small child:
Ferdinand the Bull
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel MaryAnn