Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[jorrie-spencer.livejournal.com]

I read and reread the Adventure series by Enid Blyton. I wanted to be Phillip with his special animal powers. I don't think there was another childhood series I was so enamored with. Although I did love the Oz series too, and had to defend my reading tastes to friends because they were fantasy.

(My sister was recently reading these books--the upgraded ones--to her daughter who apparently kept rolling her eyes at the girls who do so much less than the boys.)

Trixie Beldon was easy for me to related to, though I don't entirely know why. Perhaps I'd have to reread them to understand. Cherry Ames wasn't a reread series, though I certainly remember her red cheeks. I remember few details beyond that. However there was one scene that I never forgot where someone was wondering out loud (I have no idea of the circumstances) whether God would judge the weak and strong (morally, I believe) with the same yardstick. And I hadn't, for whatever reason, come across this idea/question before. So I never forgot that as it struck me quite hard.

The Black Stallion, I ripped through those. I remembering checking out bunches of those books from the library. That said, I remember very, very little of the books.

[jorrie-spencer.livejournal.com]

The eye-rolling refers to the Adventure books, not the Oz books.