hey, hang on.. this looks like the Gruffalo! is the author of the Gruffalo a copy cat or is it the same author? hehe, i suppose that's not possible seeing as it's been a while since Virgil was a childOriginally Posted by Virgil
I used to love this as a child:
As many of you mentioned, Charlotte's Web was a favorite of mine as well.
I also really enjoyed Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Flowers for Algernon.
Even younger than that my favorite was The Rainbow Fish.
~ Lauri
"What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire." Stanley Kunitz
And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind’s imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joan Aiken - author of many books for children and some for adults.
Racing plots, bubbly language, lots of fun & scariness in good measure.
Several of her books feature the character Dido Twite, and I think these are my favourites - a toss up between "Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "The Cuckoo Tree."
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Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dr. Seuss books
"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
- Feste, Twelfth Night
"...till human voices wake us and we drown."
- Eliot
hehe, i suppose that's not possible seeing as it's been a while since Virgil was a child
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Wow, reading all your posts, really makes me feel old. That said, my favorite childrens book (though politically incorrect now) was Little Black Sambo.
Bridge to Terabithia- Katherine Paterson
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
- Orwell
Read of my Shepherd
Enid Blyton's Noddy series as a pre-schooler and later, her Famous Five series; Roald Dahl, especially Charlie and The Chocolate Factory; and Ruskin Bond's ghost stories. In fact, I still enjoy reading Bond's nature stories.
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
- Jack London
aww, one of my favorites of all time too!
~ Lauri
"What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire." Stanley Kunitz
And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind’s imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Welcome pqb. No one is too old for lit net. Stick around and have intelligent conversation or just fun.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Does anyone still read childrens literature occasionally? I have a couple favorites that I go back to time and again. First would have to be Peter Pan. I absolutely love that story. Fairyland.
Number two would be the Wizard of Oz books. Dorothy is absolutely adorable, and there is a sense of magic entwined about the books coupled with the innocence of childhood that is absolutely entrancing.
J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, has written other plays that are also really cute.
Well, what do you all say?
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Does Lewis Carroll count? I have no shame in admitting that Alice in Wonderland and Looking Through the Looking Glass are among my favourite books, for several reasons.
I first read The Chronicles of Narnia when I was seven years old and I still love them. As a fan of C.S. Lewis's adult work, the narration in The Chronicles of Narnia always makes me smile because there is so much of the author's voice in them ("There once was a boy named Eustace Scrub, and he almost deserved it" comes to mind.)
I'm also still a fan of A Wrinkle in Time and, to a lesser degree, the books that followed it.
Oh yes, and A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. I haven't read those in quite a while, but I suspect I would still enjoy them.
"Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
I'm still an avid reader of Dr. Seuss whenever I find one of his masterpieces laying around.
Doc awakened very slowly and clumsily like a fat man getting out of a swimming pool. - John Steinbeck
I'm doing a children's literature unit for uni atm... narnia and peter pan are on the reading list.. for you what are the ideologies being communicated in peter pan?
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