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

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I read Cherry Ames when I was an adult, actually.

Didn't read Blyton, but did read Edward Eager and E. Nesbit

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I also read Edward Eager and E. Nesbit! Let's be friends.

[chomiji]

Edward Eager!

And because of him I read some E. Nesbit, although not enough to consider myself any kind of authority (mostly the Psammead series).

[anime-heart.livejournal.com]

me too!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

And me! Kids travelling in time, hurray! So also Hilda Lewis, The Ship That Flew, and Uttley's A Traveller in Time (though I never cared for Mary Queen of Scots even as a kid.)

[maryread.livejournal.com]

Like!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I love "Half Magic" so much that I ran out and bought it as soon as I knew I was pregnant.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Then I recommend Laurel Snyder's Any Which Wall. (And also her Penny Dreadful, even if that owes most to my *least* favorite Eager, Magic or Not? I prefer magic, thandsverymuch.)

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I am going to check those out! Thanks.

My own kids are no longer reading children's books. My oldest is currently reading Satre, Delilo and Cheever, while my younger is reading tests on typography.

[rosefox]

I was completely shocked to see neither Eager nor Nesbit on that list. Or Baum!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

My oldest read every Wizard of Oz book every written. And wrote the first two chapters of a sequel, including him as a character. He was 7 at the time.