Thank you for asking. No favorite childhood book because up to 4th grade, i didn't like reading and my parents didn't read to me. But i remember loads of Hans Christian Andersen's stories from my daycare days. In retrospect, there was a lot of cruelty in these stories, adults being mean and downright cruel to children and each other. However, I loved Anne of Green Gables. First i saw it as a theatrical play in Poland, then in the movies in the USA. Finally, as an adult, I read most of the books in the series. My favorite children's author, whom i started to enjoy as an adult, is Patricia MacLachlan. She recently passed away. So sad. I own most of her chapter books and a few of big illustrated books she wrote, i think, with her daughter. They are contemporary stories of school age children's problems. But there is tons of love in them. My favorite book of hers is "waiting for magic" in which people can hear dogs (and a cat) talk.... starting with a little 4 years old child, of course. She has about 3 books in which dogs talk.
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Too many to count, honestly. If I go back far enough my first chapter book was Roald Dahl's The Witches. Not sure why you'd give that to a five-year-old, even if she could read fluently and with comprehension by that age. It's seriously scary for a little kid. Then I started reading all the Dahl books I could find, although I remember getting bored in the middle of James and the Giant Peach and only going back to it years later. Then as I grew up, I read Georgia Byng, Lemony Snickey, Judy Blume, Jacqueline Wilson, Jean Ure, Malorie Blackman and a host of classic books from the early 1900s and late 1800s. I recently found another 1800s children's book, more of a parable about a pious little girl who's afraid to upset her father in case he stops loving her. And she doesn't do much that should be considered "naughty". Protesting that she's not making excuses to tell her younger aunt a story that's not from the Bible on a Sunday is not being a wilful naughty selfish child. Most God-fearing Christians would have said the same back then.
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jevvv NZ
Do you have a favourite children's book that you remember from your childhood?
Was it a new book or an old book?
What book do you wish you could go back and read again?
Don't forget: be yourself!
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