What childhood book do you want to read again?

[Ms_Lilith]

When I was about 10, I used to take out 50 books from the library every summer. Some were novels, some were fairy tales. I'm very into fairy tales. Still. Anyway, one of the books I took out was called "Dreamweaver", but I don't remember who the author was. It was a collection of short stories all tied together by a story about the woman who told them. She was blind, but could read people well from their actions and footfalls, and she knew how to 'weave' dreams. She would use her fingers as a loom and literally weave with yarn while she told a story. And the stories were beautiful.

I must have taken that book out of the library 20 times by the time I was 18. And then I moved away. I've never seen the book elsewhere, but I'd love to read it again. It's one of those books that just sticks with you... the dreams the weaver wove were so beautiful, so vivid, and so haunting that I've thought about them for 10 years now.

I wouldn't part with Dreamweaver if I ever got my hands on it... it's too valuable to me....

What childhood book has affected you like this? Was it just one fairy tale? Or was it a collection? Do you own a copy of it? And would you be willing to part with it ever?

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

The "Anarchist Cookbook"


It made me what I am today, a wanted criminal.

 

[enjoyingitall]

I have a childhood book called "Fifty Famous Fairytales." It was a gift to me from my grandmother when I was 7. It's a bit tattered from wear now, but I can't describe the delight it gave me to read those stories from that book to my daughter. She is almost 14 now, and now and again, she pulls it from the shelf and we read some of our favorite ones. I will only part with this book when she takes it with her to make it part of her collection.

What a great memory you helped me to think of with this thread.

 

[glamorilla]

grover's "the monster at the end of this book.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

I always liked "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" when I was a kid. Which explains why "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" gets played at least weekly on my DVD player. Thankfully, my kids are the ones who ask to see it, and it helps that it's one of my wife's favorites also.

 

[celiaKitten]

*The Napping House*

 

[70/30]

I always liked Charotte's Web, "A Wrinkle in Time", and various Hardy Boys books.

 

[SweetCherry]

My favorites were the Little House on the Prarie books. My parents bought me the whole set for my 8th ot 9th birthday. I must have read them 50 times before I finally pacled them away at about 14. They were so beat up from handling and reading. I still like those books. I'm going to get them soon and give them to my own daughter to read.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

Charlotte's Web is another one of mine. Last year I wrote a poem called Charlotte, comparing me with the spider. I think Charlotte's better than me sometimes. But then, she's fictional.

 

[pipercatt]

I was a huge Judy Blume Fan.

"Are you there God? It's me Margaret."
"Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing"
"Tiger Eyes"

And other's, I can't remember them all.

 

[Ask For More]

I still read my Roald Dahl collection every now and then.
And I have my "Chronicles of Prydain" books as well, which I always go back too when I'm feeling reminiscent.

Strangely, the book that I have read the most is "To Kill a Mockingbird". I read it for the first time when I was 13, and I think I've read it at least twice a year since then. I klnow it's not really a children's book, but...

 

[Mistress]

OMG a Wrinkle in time...I barely remember reading that book. I think it was one of the ones forced on me in school to read. I have always been a big reader, hell in 6th grade (I think 6ths grade, I was really really young) I read Alex Haley's Roots for a book report...the Teacher had to make up a whole new test just for me alone. I read Gone with the Wind and Scarlett in 8th Grade, two more favorites. The Clan of the Cave Bear series was also started in Middle school. I honestly dont remember a favorite I'd like to read again, of course now that a Wrinkle in Time was mentioned, I'm going to have to look it up to remeber all of the details regading it. I think I did like it....

Glam, I love that Grover book

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

Great Books!

The Clan of the Cave Bear series was also started in Middle school.

I Totally Loved Reading ' The Celery Stalks At Midnight'. Bunucula? LOL Drained, White Veggies All Around Town! LOL

 

[Basia]

grover's "the monster at the end of this book.

I was just going to say that.

 

[Mistress]

Re: Great Books!

I Totally Loved Reading ' The Celery Stalks At Midnight'. Bunucula? LOL Drained, White Veggies All Around Town! LOL

LOL! I can't believe I remember that one too Didn't it have this creepy picture of a fanged bunny on the front?

 

[Guest]

I always liked Charotte's Web, "A Wrinkle in Time", and various Hardy Boys books.

This is my list... sans the Hardy boys... I did like Nancy Drew though.

 

[SkyBluAngelEyes]

This is my list... sans the Hardy boys... I did like Nancy Drew though.

Dang... this is really me. Forgot to log in.

 

[KHAN-E]

"Charlotte's Web" has always been a fav.

"Animal Farm". I first read it as an "animal" story when I was 10. Iread it every summer thereafter through high school. It kept getting deeper. Still a good read.

"Something Wicked This Way Comes". Or any old Bradbury.

Any Robert Heinlein. I started with his juveniles but discovered "Stranger in a Strange Land" at a young age. I'm still not sure I fully understand it, but I LUV it.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is one I still enjoy.

 

[Ezzie]

The "Bunnicula" series and "The Owl and The Pussycat"


Those were the good ol' days.

 

[70/30]

A Wrinkle in Time is one of those books you don't fully remember. You know it has some freaky abstract concepts(for kids) and maybe you weren't ready to grasp them as a 10y/o. Do you let those crazy impressions stick in your subconscious or do you read it again to clear things up? I'll have to flip a coin to decide.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hey, I just answered this on the "What book are you reading?" thread.

"My Side of the Mountain". Bought it for my son. We read it together. Wonderful.

 

[Riles]

When I was a little girl, I suffered from terrible fright of being in the dark, so much so that I wouldn't sleep at night, just lie awake in a cold sweat. So to get me to fall asleep my mom read to my sister and I, Charles Kingsley's, The Water Babies.

Several years later, my mother suffered from a form of severe depression/nervous break down. She was virtually a ghost, a shell of the vibrant, beautiful woman I once knew. It was then that I stumbled across the same old copy of this book that she had read to me as a little girl.

I picked it up and started reading it aloud one night while she sat in her rocking chair, staring into nothingness. I did this for several nights with no reaction from her...until one night I didn't read from the book. I just sat there on the couch, watching the tv on mute...completely depressed and feeling so totally inapt at helping her through this troubled time...and that's when I heard her start reading.

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I would like to note, that this sounds a little hokey...and no, I don't think the book cured her and what ailed her, but it was a way for her to show that she wasn't gone, that she wasn't lifeless inside. There were no smiles, there was not inflection in her voice...but she was reading it there along side me every night till we finished that book.

 

[Mistress]

A Wrinkle in Time, I remember it alittle now....

I think I remember charles Wallace being different then most...didn't he have an high IQ or something?

For some reason I keep thinking he died though...and that didn't happen did it? I might be confusing him with a character in another story (Sword of truth novels) they had simular personalities.

 

[Mistress]

When I was a little girl, I suffered from terrible fright of being in the dark, so much so that I wouldn't sleep at night, just lie awake in a cold sweat. So to get me to fall asleep my mom read to my sister and I, Charles Kingsley's, The Water Babies.

Several years later, my mother suffered from a form of severe depression/nervous break down. She was virtually a ghost, a shell of the vibrant, beautiful woman I once knew. It was then that I stumbled across the same old copy of this book that she had read to me as a little girl.

I picked it up and started reading it aloud one night while she sat in her rocking chair, staring into nothingness. I did this for several nights with no reaction from her...until one night I didn't read from the book. I just sat there on the couch, watching the tv on mute...completely depressed and feeling so totally inapt at helping her through this troubled time...and that's when I heard her start reading.

Thats very touching.....

 

[someplace]

The Wrinkle in Time books are wonderful -- there are sequels about the kids as grownups with their own children. I delighted as each of my kids explored the series. Their worth rereading as an adult.

To answer the question of this thread, there was a book I loved as a child and checked out frequently from library to reread. I have tried to find it now years and years later and always look in used book stores when I come across them. One of these days, I'm going to find it.

It's called "Ask Dr. Christmas".