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Thu 18 Mar, 2004 12:58 am
I don't know if it's been asked before, but looking back, what book would you say made the biggest impression on you as a child?
A child when, eh? As an very young child I liked an oilcloth book, forget entirely what it was about.
By the way, I have no sense of how to address the person posting this question with a name of lots of moving dashes. Could this personified dash give us a possible nickname? Otherwise, Dash it is.
Very early I liked anything with horses. Getting a bit older, still with the horses, it was The Black Stallion series. Then it became Oliver Twist as I got a bit older.
The Oz books; Andrew Lang's rainbow fairy tale collections, Judy Bolton.....
Traditional fairy tales, Dr. Suess and the Disney book series (Cinderella, Snow White, Peter Pan, etc.).
Hey, line man. I could not possibly pick just one book. All the Oz books, of course. Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. Nancy Drew books. My mother always gave us books at Christmas, and the library was my favorite haunt. I went through periods of genre. First, the fairy tale; then the deserted island books and so on and so on. Now I seem to have a reader's block.
Oh, hey! John Garvey is here.
"Scuffy the Tugboat", but that was as a very young child.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
very early on it was
when i was about 4, i switched my devotions to
I still think room service is divine! :wink:
Aesop's Fables,
E.L Koningsburg's works (she attended my HS for a year or so)
James and The Giant Peach (I still remember reading that on my front porch in a pair of flip-flops)
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, later on in 5/6th grade in was the Hardy Boys.
The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew.
Call me low brow, but I loved just about everything Enid Blyton wrote, especially the Famous Five series, the Faraway Tree, etc .... These books enthused me to read as a young Oz migrant learning English at primary school. Haven't stopped reading since!
Eric Wilson wrote really good mysteries for kids too...liked the Hardy Boys too.
Ah, msolga. Never stop:
Kon Tiki; Typee: Lost Lagoon; all of Charles Dickens..Scarlet Letter; the Uninvited;
Good night
From Florida
Letty wrote:Ah, msolga. Never stop:
Impossible, Letty, it's an addiction!
Charlotte's Web, all the Nancy Drew books, but my absolute favorite was one called Witch of the Glens, by Sally Watson. I'd dearly love to have a copy today, but it seems they are very difficult to find.
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