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The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. Yes re-read as an adult and still love it. I think it started a life long love of forests and books with a magical twist.
oh my god! i remember those. loved the series... the faraway tree, moon-face... remember those sweets that got bigger as you sucked?
The Black Stallion. I have tried to collect the whole set and I have all but a few of them.
I was talking about that just the other day to someone who breeds horses. Wasn't he an Arab untrained stallion who was shipwrecked with a boy who turned out to be the only person he'd allow to ride him?
I remember that. And I'm REALLY not a horsey person.
eclectic tastes you had there, DesEss (for some reason my brain always wants to substitute Des Res there)The 120 Days of Sodom and Finnegans Wake.
Apart from those, the usual suspects - Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, etc. Narnia. The Hobbit.
The Earthsea books really captured me, too. Wonderful writing. And Rosemary Sutcliffe's historical fiction for children, too. And...
Far too many for favourites, really.
not read or heard of that one, ogg. looks brilliant!The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin, illustrated by Richard Doyle.
I was given an early copy by my eldest aunt. The later copies with the Doyle illustrations were printed from worn woodblocks, so much of the detail was lost.
I still have it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_the_Golden_River
not heard of that one. would it be sort of the equivalent to our Black Beauty?The Black Stallion. I have tried to collect the whole set and I have all but a few of them.
never read it"If I Ran the Zoo" by Dr. Seuss
As an adult, it was a lot of nonsense, but it rhymed well.
I could see how the repetitiveness of the rest of it taught me to read.
so many i've never read! the best books seem to inspire something like thatI loved the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books. We would set up mysteries to solve. Play detectives. When I knew I was having sons I got the whole set of Hardy Boy books when I found them on sale. The kids just aren't into them anymore and as low tech as they were I can see it. I still want to be Nancy.![]()
eclectic tastes you had there, DesEss (for some reason my brain always wants to substitute Des Res there)
never read it![]()
have you re-read it as an adult?
did it inspire creative childhood games? did it disappoint when your grown-up you read it? was it even a children's book or an adult's?
The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum. Loved the characters, tribes, magic, and the whole other world.