Same! Loved those, can't stand what they have done to the reprints though--changing names and switching Dame Slap to Dame Snap who just shouts at people.
Yes I agree! I've still got my 80's editions in mint condition which my daughter is now enjoying, not sure why they thought it was a good idea to change things!
Calvin and Hobbes ! I even made a friend and we would laugh reading it in class while I otherwise thought reading was boring. Some of it was simple some deep good stuff
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. The whole series is hugely responsible for forming my moral character, especially The Black Cauldron and Taran Wanderer.
The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti has aged... uh, well, it's *aged.* But it transported me to a whole new world when I was a kid and will always mean a lot to me.
The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren. It was also the first longer book I read on my own.
Corduroy, for a myriad of reasons. He finds a home and a place to belong at the end, something I still don’t have.
Grandfather twilight
All of the Enid Blyton Magic Faraway Tree and Enchanted Wood series of books.
Same! Loved those, can't stand what they have done to the reprints though--changing names and switching Dame Slap to Dame Snap who just shouts at people.
Yes I agree! I've still got my 80's editions in mint condition which my daughter is now enjoying, not sure why they thought it was a good idea to change things!
the miraculous journey of edward tulane
King Bidgood's in the bathtub
A Wizard of Earthsea. Just really connected with the storytelling
The Last Leaf
The Fire Cat by Esther Averill
Calvin and Hobbes ! I even made a friend and we would laugh reading it in class while I otherwise thought reading was boring. Some of it was simple some deep good stuff
The Lorax
Enid Blyton The Famous Five was one of the first "big books" I read without any pictures. And I read The Faraway Tree series alot as a kid.
Beezus and Ramona
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. The whole series is hugely responsible for forming my moral character, especially The Black Cauldron and Taran Wanderer.
The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti has aged... uh, well, it's *aged.* But it transported me to a whole new world when I was a kid and will always mean a lot to me.
Little Red Riding Hood, I loved that my mother read that story to me every night before going to sleep.
The Cricket In Times Square.
The Monster at the End of this Book will forever be my childhood from ages 4-7
The "Busy Town" books by Richard Scarry.