My girls loved Shel Silverstein books! It’s a shame WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS is now on the banned book list along with other books by him. It’s a real shame that this is happening.🥲
"Island of the Skog" by Steven Kellogg. Came from the local library and got read so much that younger brother wanted to hear it too. #Booksky #ChildrensBooks
I think I must have been one of THOSE kids. I had three sets that I loved: The C.S Forester Hornblower series, Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allen Poe. I started these around age 12. My parents just wanted me to read, didn’t censor. My love of history dictated my reading list from about 16 till now
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. Read it in 6th grade and life was never the same. I got to hear her speak years later, and it was like listening to a goddess.
What a force she was! I met her in Portland, Oregon in 1991, where she was speaking on writing and her career. Wrinkle in Time was rejected 9 times before it got accepted. I had my 8 year old daughter along and it was awesome! L’Engle’s eyesight had gotten bad, so she wasn’t signing books.
Attila the Hen. I borrowed it so many times from the library as a kid. My mum brought the actual book from the library sale when I was in my twenties to give to me. I still have it now!
Where the Red Fern Grows
Ghost Hotel
The Witches
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Giver
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
The Hatchet
Sounder
Holes
When You Reach Me
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories turned me into a reader when I came to Canada at the age of 9 and discovered my school library. Flashlight and books under the covers far past my bedtime as I read every single book in those series that were available in the library.
This was the first book my mother read as a child. I read it a few years ago and have wondered what that philosophically deep, very bawdy tome would do to a child’s mind. My first was The Good Earth and I’m pretty sure that early read(8yrs) shaped my thinking in extraordinary ways.
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Fitting for the Democratic party these days.
Middle school: Alex: The Life of a Child
High School: All Quiet on the Western Front and The Poisonwood Bible
And
The Saggy, Baggy Elephant
"The Emperor isn't wearing any Clothes"
I’m trying to read them to my 6 and 8 year olds, but they don’t seem to have the same interest I did in them.
Ghost Hotel
The Witches
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Giver
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
The Hatchet
Sounder
Holes
When You Reach Me
Even today it sticks with me and fills me with that childhood sense of adventure and imagination and love of nature.
I love this question- I ask people this all of the time!
• Danny Dunn
• The Mad Scientist's Club
• The Hardy Boy's
• Tom Swift
"Looks like a theme," says Freud.🤔😂