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Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping my favorite childhood books into the ol’ VCR. 

I was a voracious reader as a kid. 

I read everything from books to magazines, and my sister and her friends would give me newspapers to read aloud on command, like a show dog, because I started reading from a really young age. 

It’s not that I don’t love reading as an adult, but I just don’t have the same amount of time I used to. 

Plus, there aren’t AR points and/or pizza parties on the line. 

I’ve tried to get better the past couple of years, and I still read a new Stephen King every October. 

I’ve even started getting to the movie theater a little early so that I can read a few pages. 

So I thought it would be fun today to take you back to the days of the Scholastic Book Fair and share some of my favorite books from my childhood. 

(I’ve also been getting some tattoos from my favorite childhood books, so I think it’s really fitting).  

Now, I’m going to include both picture and chapter books on this list, but we’re going to make the cutoff around 6th-ish grade, so you won’t find some of the books I loved as a teen on here. 

But never fear, I want to do a piece later on where I talk about my favorite things as a teen, so we’ll include them there. 

We’ve also done a piece about some of the books on this list before, but we’re going even further back in this one.  

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are 10 of my favorite childhood books: 

• Strega Nona 
• Define “Normal” 
• Chrysanthemum
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen*
• The Junie B. Jones series
• he Witch of Blackbird Pond 
• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
• The Bailey School Kids series 
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School
• The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series 

*I actually started writing a titular sequel to this book after the first time I read it, and I’m so sorry that I can’t share those lost pages with you because they’re gold.