I have lived all over the country and truly believe that Clevelands restaurants stack up against any of the big city fare... New York, LA, San Fran.

The sideways stories from wayside school!

#26 is the lucky winner via random.org. Thanks everyone, lots of good books shared. I also loved The Babysitter's Club!

Fav childhood book? Goodnight Moon. Fav high school book? Great Gatsby.

any Dr. Seuss book was great reading for me as a kid

There's A Monster At The End Of This Book! with Grover

The Egypt Game, Harriet the Spy, and the Ramona series

I loved anything and everything Babysitters Club!

Great Expectations!

Hands down " The Boxcar Children "

I loved Amelia Bedelia books. I thought she was so funny!

Ooh, hard one. I loved all of the L.M. Montgomery books (Anne of Green Gables), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Nancy Drew, Babysitter's Club, and many more:)

When I was young, I loved the Berenstein Bears books, then the Babysitter's Club books, and R.L. Stine books. I always have loved to read!

One of my favorites was Boy by Roald Dahl. I also loved A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.

My favorite was Watership Down. I must have read it 100 times.

When I was very young it was a strange little book called "Ping" (no idea who wrote it. As a teen....Judy Blume by a landslide!

the giving tree! it's still my favorite as an adult too :)

the giving tree. and all babysitter club books too :)

Green Eggs and Ham!

The Outsiders

Where the sidewalk ends

My favorite book as a kid was Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are". I used to run circles around the kitchen table screaming, "let the wild rumpus start!" The best part was that I had parents who encouraged this behavior (to a point). I've grown up quite a bit since then, but I'm still a Max at heart.

"A Chocolate Moose for Dinner" by Fred Gwynne!

I, too, enoyed Shel Silverstein. "A Light in the Attic" was a favorite. I looked forward to the Scholastic book order form and delivery every month. I read a collection of books from there in the 80's called "The Girls of Canby Hall." My Mom still has them at her house!

My favorite book was a collection of YA Fantasy by Lloyd Alexander bundled as "The Prydain Chronicles." It includes a story that was made into a [horrible] cartoon movie in late 1990s... "The Black Cauldron."

My favorite book was "Little Women" - my third grade teacher gave it to me as a present when I finished because she said I was the most avid reader that she ever met but I always read trash and I should read some real literature :)

My favorite - "It Can't Hurt Forever" by Marilyn Singer. Eleven-year-old Ellie describes her experiences during twelve days of hospitalization for heart surgery. My best friend Haley and I both loved it - and she recently passed away. Reading this book again has kept her in my life - but it is now out of print!

where the red fern grows

I loved reading as a kid. I need to make more time to do it as an adult. (outside of web articles and twitter that is). My favorite was the Box Car Children series

I loved the Black Stallion books when I was a kid. Then again, I loved all things equine.

My favorite book was "Go Dog Go" by Dr. Seuss.

I had two equal favorites. Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain. I think I read both books well over 10 times.

The Cat in the Hat! My Dad read it to me every single night when I was little - and then gave me a copy of it for my 21st birthday! :)

To Kill a Mockingbird was also a favorite of mine. It was the first "adult" book I read that made me realize books weren't half bad.

A Separate Peace is one of the books at the top of my list.

And, right now, my favorite story to read to my 3.5 year old is Alpha Opps: The day Z went first. I can't believe how many times I can read this book to her!

i used to love MADELINE and now i love reading it to my daughter. my son's favorite book changes by the month, but FERDINAND is one that he requests frequently and is one i also loved growing up.

I read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol many times when I was a kid.

My favorite books growing up were the Hardy Boys.

Mine was The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. Her books deserve more recognition in the US. Such great reading for kids.

The Giving Tree is one of my all time favorites. I buy it for all our friends/relatives babies.

Anything by Judy Blume...especially "Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret".

...fond memories of reading 'the borrowers'...

I loved all Curious George books

I used to love all of Beverly Cleary's books about Ramona, especially Ramona the Pest.

Danny Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl. I loved all of his books, but this was my favorite. Maybe because it is the least fantasy based (though The BFG is pretty awesome as well)

As i'm told often by my parents, apparently my favorite book was Sam's Cookie, which is now out of print. I would "read" it to everyone - i really just had it memorized and knew where the pages were supposed to be turned.

My favorite book growing up was 'Are You My Mother?' I used to make sound effects as I was reading it.

Wuthering Heights. (Okay, so, I'm an overachiever.) I just KNEW that I could make Heathcliff happy, if only given a chance.

I know this is weird but my favorite book was The Stand by Stephen King. I mist have read it 4 times from start to finish.

Without question, it was a hardcover edition of "The Swiss Family Robinson." I read that book over and over, as well as a different edition with a slightly different translation from the original Swiss, but the big one had these cool notes in the margin that explained a lot of the more sophisticated (or archaic) terms used in the book, which made it all the more real for me. I think I still have it, somewhere, though the cover fell off years ago.