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

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Before I was five, my favorite book was Little Toot, which could have been subtitled The Brave Little Tugboat. This book changed my LIFE.

Favorites ages 5-10:
Oz books (all the Baum ones)
The Twenty-One Balloons
Everything by Edward Gorey
Everything by Shel Silverstein, including his books for adults such as Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book
Charlotte's Web
The Borrowers series
Lord of the Rings
Narnia series
Stuart Little
The Phantom Tollbooth
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth <== awesome! original illustrations a must.
Little Women (but my ignorance of Christianity made some of it incomprehensible)

After ten, I started reading my parents' books: E.M. Forster was a favorite.

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Ooops! Didn't realize the focus was on series, in which case I must tout the wonderfulness of The Borrowers series by Mary Norton, which may no longer be well known.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I forgot to list those! I read a bunch of them.

I wonder if the small family in Joan Aiken's Armitage stories was meant to lampoon the Borrowers at all.

Dammit, I forgot Aiken, too! Stupid memory.