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]

Yes absolutely to Marguerite Henry! I read so much of her stuff.

And Oz too absolutely; I owned all the L. Frank Baum ones except Tin Man and Glinda, which are still a hole in my collection. I really ought to acquire them sometime for completeness's sake. I never read the sequels written by anyone else; I was a tiny snob about the very idea.

I read and loved the All-of-a-Kind family, but only the first. I think there was a sequel I didn't read? Unless I'm misremembering.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Marguerite Henry was great. My favorite was, and still is, King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian. I loved the beginning in Morocco, and the relationship of the horse and the boy.

There were more All of a Kind Family books: More All-Of-A-Kind Family, All of a Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, and Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family,

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

The only two Henry books I owned were Album of Horses and a paperback of Misty of Chincoteague that came with my Breyer models, but I read and reread the rest in the library, and King of the Wind was my favorite there.