The 19 Books That Made Us Fall In Love With Reading As Kids

Catherine Delahaye/DigitalVision/Getty ImagesIf you ask anyone what their favorite book was as a kid, something magic happens: They get a wistful expression on their face, and nearly always share the title as well as a special memory about it. For me, it was The Phantom Tollbooth, which I read while sitting in a big orange tree outside my grandparents’ house in their 55+ mobile home community (as I did with many more books after that). If you ask a group of professional writers and editors this question, you’re going to get way more than one excited answer — which is what happened when the Sca