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

[genarti]

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.