As I am shortly to pack up this computer, one last post for the road, or for where I put off responses because it's just not as easy without the ability to multi-tab.
Tell me about your favorite books as a kid!
Some of mine, from various ages: I liked Frog and Toad and Frances and Ramona; I liked Anne of Green Gables well enough, but I liked the Betsy-Tacy books better; I loved Secrets of the Shopping Mall and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for the running away; I liked the survival aspect of Island of the Blue Dolphins and Little House on the Prairie. I read and re-read Remember Me. The Dollhouse Murders, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, and Down a Dark Hall were just scary enough. I wasn't as friendly with Anastasia Krupnik or Harriet the Spy, but I certainly re-read those, and I'd read Heidi enough to play games based on it in kindergarten. Not all of these books would work for me if I first picked them up today, of course, and I'm leaving out other books I like a lot but don't love (like Charlotte's Web or Miss Nelson is Missing), as well as the adult books I read then, and the collections of fairy tales, and the picture books I read before or have gained an appreciation of since. (And this is really no later than tween reading, as I pretty much had a Harlequin addiction by then--and it's also not the book list of my adult years.)
Your turn!
Tell me about your favorite books as a kid!
Some of mine, from various ages: I liked Frog and Toad and Frances and Ramona; I liked Anne of Green Gables well enough, but I liked the Betsy-Tacy books better; I loved Secrets of the Shopping Mall and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for the running away; I liked the survival aspect of Island of the Blue Dolphins and Little House on the Prairie. I read and re-read Remember Me. The Dollhouse Murders, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, and Down a Dark Hall were just scary enough. I wasn't as friendly with Anastasia Krupnik or Harriet the Spy, but I certainly re-read those, and I'd read Heidi enough to play games based on it in kindergarten. Not all of these books would work for me if I first picked them up today, of course, and I'm leaving out other books I like a lot but don't love (like Charlotte's Web or Miss Nelson is Missing), as well as the adult books I read then, and the collections of fairy tales, and the picture books I read before or have gained an appreciation of since. (And this is really no later than tween reading, as I pretty much had a Harlequin addiction by then--and it's also not the book list of my adult years.)
Your turn!