I do remember reading a series of books about Cherry (or was it Cheryl) Ames starting when she was a student nurse. I also read every Reader's Digest Condensed Books volume that came into the house - my Dad had a subscription. I then went on to read many of the classics like War and Peace and Quo Vadis before I was in High School. I really don't remember reading children's books. I read Tolkien and C.S.Lewis in my early 20s along with some of the 'existential' type books like Thus Spake Zarathustra and a few others. Some of those classics I now have on my Kindle, and I'm in the middle of re-reading Little Women for the umpteenth time. I read the Lord of the Rings again every year and the Narnia books. I now have Tolkien on my Kindle, too, but not the Narnia books. When I'm broke, I look for the classics on Amazon as they're free, so now I have quite a collection. I was pleasantly surprised to find Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for Kindle, and free.