Including all genres - fiction, comic, poetry, fairy-tale, short story.
Including all genres - fiction, comic, poetry, fairy-tale, short story.
The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe ~ C.S. Lewis. Regardless of the Christian allegory, I loved this as a child. It was banned (& possibly burned) in some parts of the USA, although book burning doesn't surprise me in America, it has always struck me as rather ironic that Bible-belt Christians banned a book that was essentially a Christian allegory. Maybe they hadn't actually read it.
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This book banned? What? If it was, I doubt it was Christians that banned it. I've never heard of this book being banned.Originally Posted by Red-Headed
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
I would have to say The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell and The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Stallion....definitely...
and Black Beauty was another one of my favorites.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
I'd have to agree with you there. some of my earliest memories are of my mum reading the chronicles of Narnia to me.
L'enfer, cest les autres
The Black Stallion books were better than Black Beauty I thought. There was this other series of horse books I really liked but the authors name escapes me now.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I may be wrong about this. I've surfed the Web a bit & found a few things but I can find no reference to it being banned or burned in some States. I believe some schools banned it because it had the word 'witch' in the title. However, these allegations may be urban mythology. I've heard these rumours so often I have probably fallen into the trap of believing them.
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I remember being at Primary School & the teacher reading from The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe & being fascinated by it. Later I went on to read all of the Chronicles of Narnia. It is a fond memory from my childhood.
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Oh yeah, don't forget K.M. Peyton, although I only read one of hers, I really enjoyed it. & of course, who can forget James Bigglesworth?
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I read a lot of adventure books as a child -
before I was tweleve years old. the Black Stallion books were part of these, but I read Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, Oliver Twist, The Deerslayer, Rip Van Winkle, and many more. I also read all of the Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan books, probably over twenty of them. The Howard Pease sea stories like The Tatooed Man were favorites. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories with bizarre murders used to scare me. Then there were the Robin Hood Tales and Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. There were so many. I feel sorry for the youth of today being relegated to video games.
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& me.
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Believe it or not, kid today actually find time in their hectic lives for both Anne of Green Gables and the occasional Halo fest.
My favorite kid's book is Watership Down. Oh Bigwig, you beautiful creature...
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-Pi
Have you seen the film? I never read the book but I recognise Richard Briers' voice in the film.
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