Hello Readers,
What was your favorite childhood book, series, or author?
Christine
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One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
10 comments:
Fav. book: undoubtedly "The Hobbit"
Fav. series: Jill and her Pony books by Ruby Ferguson (passed these well-worn books on to Emma).
Fav. author: Enid Blyton (especially the "Secret Seven" books, wasn't so keen on the "Famous Five")
Favorite from when I was a little-little kid - "Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book" (...the news has come in from the county of Keck, that a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck - is yawning so wide you can look down his neck...)a classic.
Favorite book from childhood...
"The Red Balloon" - it's so sad, but I loved the last photo of the boy (Pascal?) flying into the air with all the balloons.
Fav. Series...Tintin
Fav. Author...Richard Scary - esp. that tiger he does with the yellow rain slicker.
When I was in grade school I really liked Beverly Cleary's Ramona books. One summer I think I read four in one week at my grandma's house. I related to them because dorky things happened to me, too.
Two favorite series: Little House and Anne of Green Gables.
Two favorite books: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh and The Little White Horse.
I loved the Little House books, too. And the Wizard of Oz series by Baum. And the Nancy Drew books.
Now I want to take a look at Blyton, that particular Seuss, and the Red Balloon.
Honestly, I really wish the Magic Tree House series had been available when I was a kid! My boys just love every single one of those books, and they're so interesting! They're the perfect gateway to further learning, and have my kids asking questions that I never expected.
As far as books that actually were around when I was little... I really loved the Uncle Wiggly books when I was very small. We had a Children's Treasury that had belonged to my grandfather that I read nearly to bits (poems, short stories, excerpts from novels, fairy tales, just about anything a kid could want). Never Tease A Weasel was one of my favourite books when I was very very young, as was one whose name escapes me, but it was about a tiny lost button living in the land of buttons, and the illustrations were simply magical. As I got older, my tastes began to change...William Kotzwinkle wrote a book called Trouble In Bugland that just changed my little world. It was basically a takeoff on Sherlock Holmes, but the Holmes character was played by a praying mantis, and Watson was a cricket (I think). The illustrations were incredibly lush and beautiful, and evoked a long-ago London that I desperately wished to visit. There's five stories in the volume, and my only regret is that the author didn't write any more. (Seriously-I'm half tempted to pick that one up again even now. It was that good.) That sparked a love of mysteries that's never left me. From there, I discovered Agatha Christie, and my tastes in books got progressively darker. In the fourth grade, I discovered Stephen King, and was SO excited! My mom had most everything he'd written up until that point, and I was just in heaven (granted, a dark & twisted heaven, but it pleased me nonetheless).
It's really interesting to think about one's taste in books as a timeline. I'd never really thought about how discovering one style leads on to another, but it really did over the years. Neat question, Christine!
Thanks, Heather. And thanks for your favorite old books. More books for me to look up!
Heather, have your kids met The Time Warp Trio yet? They're by the guy that did the Stinky Chees Man. They've also been turned into a TV show. It's all good. Like Magic Treehouse, but funny.
As a young lad I enjoyed the Great Brain adventures series. My favorite author when I was ten? James Joyce.
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