Blinky Bill. Are there any Oz folk out there who loved Blinky (the koala), too?
Hello, dagaz in outback Oz!
Glad you enjoyed the Famous Five, too .... Wonderful stuff, yes?
And welcome to A2K ... Lovely to meet you!
Another one for Enid Blyton - I loved The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair
i read and re-read the alfred slote collection of baseball stories when i was about 10 or 11...
the only book I can remember is Black Beauty - was it a favorite - dunno - just remember that book.
Anything with horses. The Black Stallion series mostly. I also liked stuff by Judy Blume (sp.?) and The Girl With the Silver Eyes.
'Where the Red Fern Grows' was mine.
The oversized color illustrated "Lad, A Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune.
Next would be "Lassie Come Home"
"The Sea Wolf" by Lowell Thomas - The story of a WWI German commerce raider who captained a square rigged sailing vessel in a career that took him from North Atlantic to South Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean in 1915.
Books about dogs, mostly sled dogs but can't recall titles. Then it was the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, then on to Zane Grey.
Which age? J. Livingston Seagull, Aesop's fables, Moliere's L'Avare.
Oh and most of all Sherlock Holmes! (Though I still wanted to grow up to be a gangster, like the ones in "The Untouchables" series, ha ha.)
I loved the Black Stallion series too, but I think the first book that made an extremely big impression on me was Charlotte's Web. I believe it was in second grade that our teacher read us some of it each day during story time. That may have been the book that peaked my love of reading.
Hi NeoGuin, I noticed you liked Aesop too. I recently read this "follow up", a pretty short novel (an afternoon read, really) on Aesop called "Donne-lui la Parole" by Hans Joachim Schädlich. Enjoy!
I was a total comic book nut. Back then they only cost 10¢ apiece and there was a big rack of them at Sonny's Variety Store. My goal was to read as many as I could standing there before they forced me to cough up my dime.
Come to think of it, I still do much the same thing at Barnes & Noble -- only there I shell out way too much money for a cup of coffee.
like Setanta The Wind in the Willows was a firm favourite
and I'm with MsOlga on Enid Blyton - I liked the Famous Five and the other five with the spaniel Loopy (Ring O'Bells Mystery springs to mind!) - i think it was the freedom they had as much as the adventures - off camping on islands and catching spies and smugglers with no parental supervision when they must have been between 10 -13 years ish
also Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories
and I read a few Nancy Drew
Lorna Doone
Black Beauty made me cry so I can't include that!
Yes, Vivien, the Five could just go off & explore islands, caves with secret passages, take risks .... But you knew all would end well. Such a change from my protected childhood, no wonder I loved their freedom! And George was a hero ... Whatta girl!
Little Women: I identified with Jo March, whose idea of fun was to spend the afternoon in the garret with a bag of apples and a book, and who wanted to be a writer when she grew up. (Naturally, I was disappointed in the sequels (Little Men and Jo's Boys), which show Jo settled into boring domesticity.)
I also loved The Phantom Tollbooth, which jespah mentioned, and the Hardy Boys.
I loved The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew(equal opportunity) Wind in the Willows. Falcons of France by the guy that wrote Mutiny on the Bounty. I was given a book on Inventions that kept me busy for a while. How Things Work. Any Poe or JP Dunleavy. I read and read.
