SUSAN COOPER. She was incredibly formative to me -- I can totally trace her influence in my writing style -- and I have reread the Dark is Rising series so many times in my life.
Little House on the Prairie, yes! I can recognize all the problematic bits of our nation's mythologized history in it now, but as a child I adored them. My longstanding childhood favoritism for the goody-two-shoes characters meant I loved Mary best, but really what I loved was the world, and all the details of things like making latches from a peg and a scrap of leather.
And oh, Lloyd Alexander. Prydain, of course, but also Westmark and a lot of his incidental stuff.
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Little House on the Prairie, yes! I can recognize all the problematic bits of our nation's mythologized history in it now, but as a child I adored them. My longstanding childhood favoritism for the goody-two-shoes characters meant I loved Mary best, but really what I loved was the world, and all the details of things like making latches from a peg and a scrap of leather.
And oh, Lloyd Alexander. Prydain, of course, but also Westmark and a lot of his incidental stuff.