Old Children's Book Poll

[rachelmanija]

Here are some old children's books I have acquired. Please vote for which I should read next (or which I should avoid.) If you've read any of them, what did you think?

Poll #26528 Old Children's Book Poll

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Which books should I read next?

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Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. A girl is sent to rural Vermont and experiences country life.
32 (24.8%)

Building Blocks, by Cynthia Voigt. A boy time-travels and meets his father as a boy.
22 (17.1%)

Juniper, by Monica Furlong. A princess studies with her wise-woman aunt.
50 (38.8%)

Mossflower, by Brian Jacques. Martin the Warrior vs en evil cat queen.
24 (18.6%)

Castaways in Lilliput, by Henry Winterfield. Three shipwrecked kids land in Lilliput.
17 (13.2%)

Midsummer, by Katherine Adams. Two New York kids are sent to Sweden & experience Swedish life.
20 (15.5%)

Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder. Kids live alone on an island.
23 (17.8%)

Mariel of Redwall, by Brian Jacques. Finally a heroine.
25 (19.4%)

The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Potter. A miniature animal traveling circus.
19 (14.7%)

A Room Made of Windows, by Eleanor Cameron. Teenage Julia wants to be a writer.
18 (14.0%)

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr. Anna and her family are refugees in multiple countries.
30 (23.3%)

Hyddenworld, by William Horwood. Two kids find a civilization of tiny people and magic.
23 (17.8%)

Assignment in Alaska (Kathy Martin), by Josephine James. A stewardess has an Alaska adventure.
9 (7.0%)

Talargain, by Joyce Gard. Northumberland selkie fantasy.
45 (34.9%)

Comments

[queenbookwench]

BtW, the fifth one is called The Private World of Julia Redfern, and is actually set later, when Julia is in high school.

[pameladean]

Thank you!

Also, I had no idea. I'm a big fan of reading in interior chronological order, but there is certainly always an argument for publication order as well.

P.

[queenbookwench]

I’m always happy to run into _anyone_ who knows Eleanor Cameron, much less the writer of some things I am very very fond of. :)

For the 5th book, they went back to having Trina Schart Hyman do the cover; I prefer her vastly to the other cover artist.

[pameladean]

For years I thought all there was were the Mushroom Planet books, which transformed my idea of what books could do, and The Court of the Stone Children, which I loved but was so strange I could only read it in the right mood. Then my mom found A Room Made of Windows and I read it over and over. My copy is falling apart.

I'll have to find the fifth one. I can't think of another writer really like Eleanor Cameron. Her books seem quite transgressive for children's books; I always try to see how she gets away with it.

P.

[gwynnega]

I loved A Room Made of Windows, but I'd never heard of the others in the series (because I read A Room as a child, and the other books came out after I'd stopped reading kids' books).

[pameladean]

I quit reading kids' books for a while and even got rid of a bunch; and then in my late twenties I just had to go find them all again after months of sudden deep regret.

P.