For me it was Hatchet. Grew up hiking, hunting, fishing…anything out in the woods. Loved the story and thinking about how I’d approach the same situations.

The Velveteen Rabbit. Makes my heart so full. And I cry every time I read it.

Shel Silverstein was really big to me as a kid. The Giving Tree then and now was a really big deal to me

Easily “The book of peace”. I was a really temperamental child growing up, but the stories in ended being kind of therapeutic. It was nice to have a book at that age that helped with those huge feelings I couldn’t exactly articulate at the time.

The Pushcart War. I read it in the summer between first and second grade. I was 7. It was the first “real” book I ever chose to read.

I still daydream of inciting a rebellion armed either nothing but a peashooter.

“Wings” by Bill Britain. Changed my life.

The Tintin series started me reading graphic novels. From them I got my love of action stories. Then I graduated to Yoko Tsuno. I got my love of sci-fi from her.

My favorite book series was Fantômette.

The latter two featured strong (but not bitchy) female characters. They refined my own brand of feminism.

The Indian in the Cupboard books, The White Mountains by John Christopher (still need to read the other Tripods books), the Ralph S. Mouse books, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, the Animorphs books, The Borrowers/The Littles books, and the Norby the Robot books.

It. I’m still afraid of clowns almost 40 years later. Maybe I was too young to read it.

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress “ set my views on a lot of things. I read it when I was about 12.

Where the Red Fern grows…… my second grade teacher read it to the class and started bawling at the end, which prompted most of the class to do so as well…

The thief lord

Holes was my first chapter book. I remember feeling like it was impossible to read a book that big :')

The swallows and amazons series by Arthur ransom Id say

The bridge to teribithia