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

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

He didn't have any series, though, did he? He was too weird for series.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

He wrote a few sequels (e.g., Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator), but nothing I'd call a series.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

No, but Roald Dahl books became a series of their own. Just to see what he'd write next.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Truth.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Huh, I'm racking my brains here and I know the earlier Dahl titles must have been around in the libraries of my youth, but I don't think I ever read any of them? (The 1971 Gene Wilder "Willy Wonka" movie, now, that seemed to run on broadcast TV every year, and I watched it when it came around, but it never really inspired me to look for the book.)