what is your favourite children/childhood story and why?
I would say mine are all of Beatrice Potter's series. I can still visualise the drawings from when one I was little :)
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what is your favourite children/childhood story and why?
I would say mine are all of Beatrice Potter's series. I can still visualise the drawings from when one I was little :)
Treasure Island
The best boys' book ever written. Action, adventure, pirates, betrayal, courage and the most heroic boy in literature.
I still love it!
The Moomins!
The Moomins of course:)
The Hobbit. I read it a dozen times.
I`ve read it as a teenager for the first time.Quote:
Originally Posted by kev67
Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne.
The Children of the New Forest - Captain Marryat
Le Petit Prince. One can read it and experience new meanings throughout a lifetime.
1.Emil and the Detectives
2.Treasure Island
3.Little Women
4Jane Eyre
Much too old for The Moomins and I hated The Hobbit when I read it at 20
Why did you hate "The Hobbit"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seasider
I remember reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and A Wrinkle in Time over and over.
Going back even further, the Sesame Street book The Monster at the End of This Book, in which Grover desperately tries and fails to stop the reader from advancing toward the end, was a huge favorite, and is still good for laughs as an adult.
The Three Fat Men by Yury Olesha.
My father's childhood book, "I Don't Want to go go Bed" by Ruth Kauffman (Altemus "Wee Books for Wee Folks")...it's close to an antique now and has sentimental value.
Too old for the Moomins! :OQuote:
Originally Posted by Seasider
I read them now and still love them!