What's the Best Book You Got for Christmas as a Kid?

[sc211]

My favorite would have to be Cosmos - the Carl Sagan book based on the series. It was not only the biggest book I'd ever gotten, but my first real hardcover, and I felt I'd been given a key to the universe.

And for fiction, it'd be another guide to the stars - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to be exact.

[katdad]

My favorite Christmas book as a kid?

"The Wonder Clock" by Howard Pyle. It's a masterpiece of fantasy storytelling, with evil sorcerers, hostage princesses, brave rescuing princes, and the like.

It's still in print and anyone with kids may want to find this. Just open the book and read a bit, and you'll see what I mean.

I got this when I was 6 or 7, I think. Still have the book. The reading level is probably more age 10 but I was reading when I was three.

[aka eraser]

Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

[Stephenie Hovland]

Good question!

I don't think I ever got books for Christmas, as a kid.

My kids DO get books for Christmas.

[maestrowork]

I never got Christmas gifts, period, when I was a child.

[allion]

Two of them:

Peanuts Treasury by Charles M. Schulz and Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. The first is a big hardcover (I still have it) that I received from my aunt & uncle when I was 4 or 5. I loved looking through all the comic strips and Sunday collections.

The second was a tiny blue paperback that I read so much it fell apart. It came around the same time as the Peanuts book. Still love Winnie and the gang immensely.

[Greenwolf103]

My teacher gave me a beautiful copy of Little Women in 1984. I still have it.

[Writing Again]

As a child we were always broke. I only remember one birthday party and at it I only received one present: A used copy of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court" by Mark Twain.

One time when we were evicted for lack of ability to pay the rent the landlord locked up a bunch of our stuff. My book was among those items and he would not give it to me.

[debraji]

The Hobbit, when I was in 5th grade.

The Lord of the Rings, the following Christmas.

I still think of the givers (my favorite aunt & uncle) with pleasure, though the gifts were received over thirty-five years ago.

[CindyBidar]

Scuttle the Stow-Away Mouse. This must have been 30 or 35 years ago, and I still read it occasionally. ;)

[aadams73]

My sixth year, my mother bought all of Enid Blyton's "Faraway Tree" books and placed then under the tree for me. I fell in love that Christmas :)