Who was your Harry Potter?

With the impending release of the final Harry Potter book this weekend, yesterday the New York Times posted the questions “who was your Harry Potter? what were your favorite books when you were a kid?” on their blog, and they’ve already received more than 1000 responses from readers. See: http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/who-was-your-harry-potter/

And on a personal note - what were your favorite books when you were younger? Mine were Nancy Drew (ironically - not available at my public library in the 1960s b/c series books were not seen as suitable for public library collections back then - nice to know that times have changed in public libraries!), Walter Farley's Black Stallion series, Narnia, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Beverly Cleary, and many more.