When I was a child, my favorite book was... You're kidding?!

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I had a big book of fonts. I'd spend hours looking through all the different typefaces.

I liked to read Dr. seuss books liek 1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. I liked reading mysteries too.

Yeah, I'm English and I've read loads of issues!

I used to have a medical dictionary that I read for fun. I was probably the only 8-year-old in my town who know what cholera and mesothelioma actually were.

Many newsagents stock MAD magazine and if your local one doesn't stock it at the moment just ask them to place an order for you. You can also buy older issues of MAD on both eBay and Amazon.

I read anything and everything as a child until I came across "The Wind In The Willows," by Kenneth Grahame, and then I became like a broken record, stuck in a repeating loop of reading it over and over again for months on end. My favorite book as a child though was Bevis: The Story Of A Boy by Richard Jefferies, I so identified with Bevis.

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Ha, ha, ha I've just realized that I've contributed to a thread in which the previous post was made 10 years ago! Damn you dyslexia, I read 2005 as 2015.

I can thank you for reviving this long-lost thread.

I read probably everything when I was a little kid. I used to have a picture of myself, 2 1/2 years old, looking at the 2000 Verizon Snohomish County phone book. I recall also looking at the US West book as well, before it turned into Qwest and later Dex.
Magazines - didn't matter. Lots of TV Guides. Lots of women's magazines like Good Housekeeping. My mom also subscribed to Speedway Illustrated for a few years (auto racing magazine) and I read those copies. The Family Handyman, especially seeing how people did projects. Nowadays, I still collect various magazines - vintage Life magazines (I have issue #2, Nov 30 1936, as well as several others), I still have lots of the women's/lifestyle magazines like Family Circle, including a 1962 issue, and I still keep growing the collection of TV Guides, 1955-2004. I have zero of the national editions 2005-present and I am happy about that.
The aides would get sick of me not reading BOOKS, instead magazines...
My mom used to subscribe to the Weekly Reader service and I had lots of picture books as well. I can recall Lyle Lyle Crocodile, and a couple of the Frog & Toad books. There were SEVERAL more but I cannot remember them.
AAA TourBooks, oh goodness. Tons of them, loved when I had an edition that was NOT OR/WA or the Californias...I would always look at the thrift stores in the "Travel" section for AAAs. Still have a few, if I look hard enough in my closet, I will find the Southern Cal/NV book from 2008. Somewhere in storage I have North Central 1994-95, CA/NV 1991 and OR/WA 1990 (oldest so far).

I also kept a lot of newspapers. One of my local grocery stores back in Seattle offered Sunday editions of SF Chronicle, Oregonian and Los Angeles Times along with the Seattle papers. That routine has long been retired, but it was fun to thumb through the Chronicle and find the "Datebook" and the TV listings, where ABC was KGO and not KOMO, CBS was KPIX and not KIRO, PBS was KQED and not KCTS, etc. Datebook was like the entertainment section, and it had a pinkish newsprint to it - standing out from the rest of the paper.

maybe not weird, but in 3rd grade read "little women" and really identified with jo.