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

[cyphomandra.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a great thread. Lots of these (and I am definitely another Three Investigators fan), but just to bump up the non-English quota, the Moomin books (my first encounter with Shakespeare was the Moomin version of Midsummer Night's Dream, which has warped me for all subsequent books), Erich Kastner's Emil books, and ridiculous amounts of Astrid Lindgren. I particularly loved the Bullerby series, which my school library had and I've never tracked down - vivid, detailed stories about a large family in a small village - and the Pippi Longstocking books, but reading The Brothers Lionheart when I was nine may also have resulted in significant mental trauma.

I read so many British books as a child that I was confused about whether my own country had robins (no. Well, not those ones).