I feel like this series is all leading up to something sinister....the 7th grade.

Your friend and boyfriend didn't mention you in their presentation?! BETRAYAL! I would've been heartbroken if that had happened to me.

That edition of the Chronicles of Narnia is beautiful!

When you said “power girls” i thought you were inspired by the powerpuff girls 😂

Liam looks sooo much like you when you were a kid!

I love how every girl you were inspired by is wearing striped leggings and you work for a leggings company!!

When you started playing the big comfy couch theme song I literally had a million memories come back holy moly

I just love how you remember all this, I have such an awful memory I can barely remember anything from last year let alone when I was in year 2 (UK version fo grade 3) ahah

As a middle school teacher, I totally agree that the classics are not necessary for kids now a days to read. They can relate more to books being published now than books written by dead white men from the 1800s.

OMG THE PARENT TRAP IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES!!!

Amelia Bedelia is another one that I loved when I was little

That picture of you a Darth Maul had me crying with laughter... 🤣 love that pic and love your channel ❤️

As a Swede I'm so happy you read Pippi! The author Astrid Lindgren is portrayed on our 20 SEK notes :)

I'm your age and I grew up watching a Charlotte's Web movie, so I was super confused when you said you were too old for it by the time the movie came out. I forgot there was another version. I absolutely ADORED the 1973 movie... please watch it 😄

I actually prefer the cartoon movie of Charlotte's Web that came out in 1973 over the Dakota Fanning version. I owned the VHS tape and used to watch it all the time

Omg! Books I distinctly remember reading and loving back in my youuuth: -Indian in the Cupboard -Holes -Into the Land of the Unicorns -Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret -The True Colors of Caitlynn Jackson (aka my introduction to hard hitting contemporary!) -I second The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -anything and everything Goosebumps

Just opened KZfaq thinking "I just want to watch BooksandLaLa." So excited!

Just three of the Chronicles of Narnia have been filmed, “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, “Prince Caspian”, and “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”.

Honestly just from the intro clips this is already exactly what I needed today thank you queen

The series looks lovely on your shelf! But you're missing the orange Pantone (Treasure Island). I saw that Book Depository still stocks it.

I legit started crying when you had Molly & The Big Comfy Couch song in the background. I still have my Molly doll and it just brought me back!

the striped shirt you’re wearing talking about the secret garden was one lydia wore on teen wolf and i spent months tracking down in like 2016 😩😂😂

I feel like no one knows about The Big Comfy Couch! I watched that all the time when I was a kid!

I love that you take us on a little tour of the places you visited at those ages, you just put so much effort into your videos and *we appreciate*

These videos make me wish I had started reading journals in my childhood.

Girl lmfao when you closed your head up in your hoodie😂😂love it.

The big comfy couch takes me back. I used to have a Molly doll. I loved the clock segment from that show. I always wanted to do it but I have no flexibility. Those Pantone books are gorgeous. I might get them if they are still on the book outlet site. You were a grade ahead of me so a lot of the things you read I also did. Can’t wait for the 7th grade video!

I'm so glad you liked The Secret Garden, because it is my all time favorite book. (I've read it at least 18 times from when I was a child until now at 25 & even got to teach it to a literature class of 6th grade girls.) As for the problematic attitudes towards Indian people and servants, I've always seen it as part of what shows that Mary is not a "good person" at the beginning of the story. Also, the reason she was described as "yellow" was because she spent all of her time inside and on the sickly side. But I really, wholeheartedly love the character growth in this book. This book is just...fundamental to who I am as a person now, and I'm trying to remind myself that I do NOT need to own ALL the copies.

Omg! I’m a Pre-K teacher and I still show my students episodes of Big Comfy Couch. They love it!! Especially when she does her little exercise where she looks like a clock. Loved this video Kayla!❤️

Black beauty was my favorite book from childhood because I was a horse girl 🥺 and I reread a christmas carol and see the play every year around Christmas time so I really want to see you get to those 🥰 I'm pleased that you have read black beauty though OMFG I PLAYED PIPPI LONGSTOCKING IN 2ND GRADE FOR A PLAY

I love that we're essentially the same age (about 6 months apart), so all of your childhood favorites videos are also a trip down memory lane for me, too! :)

I screamed when you started playing the Big Comfy Couch theme song! That show was one of my favorites when I was little and nobody else I know seems to remember its existence. But I had a Molly doll that I used to carry around, and my mom used to convince me to clean my room by calling it a “10 second tidy” 😂

The Big Comfy Couch song made me so nostalgic.

No Kayla, I was in a band with MY friends called The Power Girls 😂😂 but no, really, I was. Liam looks JUST LIKE YOU!!

LALA THE BIG COMFY COUCH THEME it was like my all time favourite show 😭

"with really short hair and my dress came unbuttoned." -- I laughed out loud.

Omg Like in those photos you can see just how much of Kayla's features Liam has got

Hi Kayla. I am the same age as you. I remember the 1973 Charlottes Web movie and don’t think I ever saw the 2006 one. Thanks for the blast from the past!

Takeaways from this video: 1-I love and miss ALL those songs! 2-I’m WAY more nostalgic for the reads from 3rd grade than other young years lol, is that odd? I want so badly to go back and read these over again too! 3-I need the Pantone Classics. So pretty! And obviously, I love watching any video you do 😊

the pippi intro music has me HYPED kayla

Such a great video! It's fun to go through your childhood memories with you. The nostalgia is strong. The Chronicles of Narnia is such a huge part of my childhood. My Dad read them to me as bedtime stories from when I was 5 to like 10, along with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and John Sandford's Prey Series (I was -and still am- into true crime/forensics). It was a great time and special memories.

It’s 1 am here and I immediately started singing along to the Big Comfy Couch theme. What a timeless icon. Editing to say 1911! My friend wrote her thesis on Edwardian (and a little post) children’s literature: Peter Pan, the secret garden, and lion, witch, and the wardrobe.

I love this video series so much, and the beginning of this vlog is pure gold :)

It’s 3.05am in Ireland right now but can’t sleep now Kayla has uploaded🤣❤️

Obviously I watch all of your videos, but when you started singing baby when the lights go out... I started to respect you on a whole other level 😂😁

I think you nailed it. Children think more about the media they engage with than we give them credit for.

LOVED this video!! Loved Pippi, Charlotte, and The Secret Garden so much. But OMG... when you pulled the strings on your hoodie I literally died 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Hope you feel better soon.

Omg I loved the big comfy couch! I was obsessed I had the dolls of lunette and molly! Also had the couch! Lots of similar books from my childhood also. Such nostalgia! 🥰

"Hi, I'm an Aries" - SAME! I felt that :D

I just googled Charlotte’s Web because the movie I remember watching was animated, and boy was I hit with ALL of the nostalgia seeing those google images! I think it’s been like 20 years since I last watched it or even thought about it...

I was born in 1998 and it was so interesting to see what you/kids were reading/watching (/ listening to 😂) at the time! I hope you feel better now, I always love your vlogs! (Charlotte's web, The Secret Garden, Narnia, The parent trap- childhood nostalgia)

I love these, because being the same age there are so many similarities in books we read. So you remind me of some of my forgotten favorites. Like, Amber Brown forgot but LOVED, I never read Judy Moody though. I used to watch Charlotte's Web all the time but the old 1973 animated version! Ooo, my family and I still quote that movie to this day.

This is exactly what I needed today. Thank you! Absolutely love this series you put out 💛 I can barely remember anything so it's awesome to see how much you do from your past.

I think that plastic recorder instrument is the only meeting point between our childhoods. Mostly because we grew up in vastly different parts of the world, but ya know. Nonetheless, I appreciate this nostalgia trip!

Oh no not the recorders!! that brings back too many memories hahaha

I distinctly remember getting the Lost In Space DVD with a Pizza Hut order back in the day! I'm pretty sure we also got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles too. I did not realize how many iconic songs came from 1998! Every single one of those songs are 👌

I turned 17 in 1998-99, so am considerably older than you, but I still love watching your videos, as I read a lot of the same books that you did. Loved The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Charlotte’s Web...

The big comfy couch 😭💛

Big comfy couch is the sweetest memory of mine from my mom. She passed away 2 years ago but I can just remember laying on the floor going the clock stretch😭💕

I absolutely loved seeing you get a bit silly in this video, the part where you were dancing sat at your laptop to those nostalgic tunes. FAVE.

I love all your content, but these are some of my fave! I love the mix of vlog, show and tell and book reading ating! Also that little box with the pavilion was the most intense flash back, I had one just like it for years! Its also fascinating to see what anglophones read as I'm french Canadian. Ive learn about these much later then the age recommended for them!

Charlotte's Web was the 1st book I remember crying about as a child! I remember being so sad about Charlotte's death, but so grateful I've got to meet these amazing characters!

This was the good mood booster I didn't know I needed. Thank you, Kayla. I was born in 1991 and these are such a lovely throwback. 🥰

Junie B. starts as a kindergartener, in later books she goes to first grade. I'm not sure if she ever grows above first grade, though. You might have read them in later grades, though because while they can be read to kindergarteners the actual words are generally above kindergarten level. And, as a kindergarten teacher, those drawings you did were on point! Super impressed! lol

I love the “love you as a friend” sweat shirt! Also I’m dying over that playlist 😂😍

I was born in 1998 nostalgia at its finest l remember what tv shoes were from 1998. It’s interesting to hear your take on these things as you were a bit older than me obviously!

I’m glad that this was such a comforting week for you, thanks for sharing!

The photos of you as a kid look so much like Liam!! Aww ☺️

I love this series so much

9 mins ago! That might be the earliest I’ve arrived to a video. I was just about to start painting, so thank you so much for the accompaniment!

So I was listening to the audiobook of And Then There Were None doing twitter sprints for The Bookie Trials Royal Weekend and during the breaks I was slowly watching this video. I finished the sprints and then the book and then came back to finish this. My best friend had read the book when she was barely in high school maybe middle school and I asked if she remembered the way a Jewish man is described in the beginning and she said, “No?” and was shocked when I told her about it. I rated And Then There Were None 4 stars because of that terrible description being unnecessary to the plot. Then as I’m trying to cool down from an otherwise enjoyable thriller, I got to around the 18 minute mark in your video. I love when you take the time to discuss how people absorb what they read at various stages (something you also do during the videos when you read suggestions). Your insight gives validity to a lot of uncomfortable reading. The fact that you acknowledge these things is something that I value most highly in anyone who reads. I just wanted to say I love your videos and this moment hit me extremely strongly just at the perfect time. It doesn’t excuse such descriptions, but it does show how it’s possible for younger people to see the good and not dwell on those things. As adults, I do think we owe it to ourselves and others to acknowledge these things and the different possible reactions of when you read them.

woowwwza you really took me down that memory lane! I read the entirety of Narnia when I was 8, I remember spending hours in my school library going through them. Magical!

This series is one of my absolute favorites on your channel

My family actually had a foldable ladder that was kept in my room-- but it was our fire escape ladder and I've never used it

Titanic and The Parent Trap are two of my fave movies ever WHAT A YEAR 🍿

20:30 Greatest/ funniest books and lala moment (so far) period

Love this series. And seeing what you, being so far away from where I am, were reading and was interested in at that time is great.

omg I am so happy recorder karate is alive and well! good luck on the next belt, liam!

Junie B Jones was my FAVOURITE thing when I was younger, and to answer your question the books start in kindergarten and go until first grade

Love these kinds of videos! Ty!! 📗📘📕

Omg I used to LOVE Junie B. Jones! My mom hated that I read it though, but that didn't stop me haha. This video is so awesome, love your videos Kayla!

Oh my god I completely forgot about that Pippi Longstocking show!! I was obsessed. I never knew it was based off of books though!

I swear I was you at that age too. Love it! 💕

these videos are legit my favourite!

I was OBSESSED with Junie b Jones and Amber Brown !!!!!

When we read charlottes web in school in year 3 (4th grade) my best friend went veggie and convinced the whole class to go veggie with her. Most of the class lasted a week, but from that week I knew when I was older and moved out I was going to be vegetarian too, and I am 💚 Incredible what an impact that book had

I wasn't in third grade the same year but this was still such an extreme throwback wow

okay that narnia bindup is beautiful???? i got one recently, just a basic paperback with aslan on the cover but i NEED that🥺

I’m going to be reading charlottes web to my 8 yr old soon. I don’t ever remember reading it myself....so it should be a blast.

I had those same butterfly clips and I loved them 😍

The Chronicles of marina from Barnes and Nobles Collectible Edition Series is to hard to find now!!! You're so lucky that you have it!

this was such a throw back, uh i miss the 90's

There is now a book series for Judy's brother Stink. My son who is 9 enjoyed those books a year or two ago.

I read Charlotte's Web before watching the Dakota Fanning film and despite knowing the ending I still bawled my eyes out when Charlotte died.

Had to stop watching this so I could immediately order that classic collection. Only missing two 😭

Omg yay a new video that i could watch from my favorite booktuber

I needed this video so much, thank you! All of these were my childhood favorites as well!

My partner from three rooms away: “who the hell is playing a recorder?!”

Omgosh I had a whole collection of those butterfly clips and I wore them in a similar fashion when I was young xD I loved Junie B. (the first grader series was newer and came after the first series where she's in kindergarten) and read almost all of them when I was a kid. I read Charlotte's Web several times when I was little and still love it. There are 3 Narnia movies :) The Parent Trap was one of my favorite movies!! Also, you have No Body's Perfect by Kimberly Kirberger!! I read that on a plane ride to Europe the summer before 10th grade and it meant so much to me. I discovered I had OCD when I read the story about the girl who also had OCD.

As soon as you said you had to complete a collection that BookOutlet carried I said, "Oh its gotta be the Pantones..." and I was RIGHT lol ugh those are SO PRETTY