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

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Great story. I too recall The Children of Cherry Tree Farm as numinous - who knows, maybe it really is! (If you're eight.)

I think the Kentucky bluegrass book is Rabbit Hill (Puffin Modern Classics). I remember it as being somewhat numinous as well - I think that herald of numinosity in talking animal books, Pan, shows up at the end.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Folks in the Big House! Yes, that's it! I don't remember anything about it other then the bluegrass and, now, the Folks and the Big House.

It took me years to realize that yes, The Children of Cherry Tree Farm was what I remembered -- I associated the title with my memories, but I was so convinced that there was magic and other worlds in the book that it took me a long time to come to terms with the descriptions I was reading. :) Mind you, rural 1940s England is a whole other world. I shall have to find a copy and reread.