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

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Baby-Sitters Club was after my time -- the first one came out in my senior year of high school. Even if they'd been around in my childhood, though, I probably would never have picked them up -- I tended to reject most real-world contemporary setting mundane stories, especially girly ones, as boring-looking, and I had zero interest in babysitting or babies, in real life or fiction. (I loved it when I could find cool girl characters in the kind of adventure/F&SF stories that I preferred to read, but the classic "girl books" people always expected me to read were mostly mundane domestic/friendship stories that didn't really grab my attention. I read them when there was nothing else around because even a dull book was better than nothing, but I could never really get into them.)