Children's books

[jessicadazzler97]

What were your favourite books as a child?

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[nicnacs_4u]

def NOT a book to read to a child but if you are a new parent you will get the drift!!lol

tickled my SOH and my 2 daughters too..picked this beauty up yesterday during the hunt..

[imastawka]

I must be a bit on the dark side.  The last of 5 kids, there were no children's

books in the house.   Even though mum was a teacher

 My favourite author til my mid teens was Edgar Allan Poe -

The Raven, Murders in the Rue Morgue etc

Still love him.  Still have my leatherbound first edition of his collection

put together in 1952

Other favourites were O. Henry and Guy de Maupassant

Then, I, too, discovered Kyle Onstott later in my teens - read all of his books

[jessicadazzler97]

Come to think of it, there weren't really any books in my family's house either until I was at least 11 or 12.

The first book I truly read over and over was Katy's Exmoor by Victoria Eveleigh, a book about an area I was local to in the UK, and it features lots of ponies, and I loved ponies (of course), so that was a winner with me.

I'm not a reader at all - but I still have Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (another childhood favourite). I love CS Lewis's science fiction trilogy but I couldn't face reading it through again so I donated it to the library 😛

Never heard of the authors you like; they sound really interesting 🙂

[springyzone]

Faraway tree, Famous Five.

Got started with reading in earnest in about Year 3-Joey and the city ghosts, catacombs under London, used by robbers.

Never looked back.

In the teens, got into Agatha Christie. Very talented writer but some of her work is very politically incorrect these days plus it is historically interesting.

[the_bob_delusion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU95SJDWuSY

[imastawka]

O. Henry  -  The gift of the Magi  I would recommend for you Jess

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its "twist ending" are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony.

Spoiler alert if you look it up.   The story is so old, they assume everyone knows

the twist at the end.

O. Henry wrote short stories around  the turn of the 19th century 

I still have that book too.  Great stuff

[jessicadazzler97]

I shall look it up...

[lyndal1838]

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@jessicadazzler wrote:

I'm not a reader at all - but I still have Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (another childhood favourite). I love CS Lewis's science fiction trilogy but I couldn't face reading it through again so I donated it to the library 😛

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I suppose if you are not a reader you don't value books......I could not even imagine giving books away.

I have books that my grandmother won as prizes at school in the 1890s, books belonging to my Mother and all the books given to me as a child by 2 very generous godmothers.   I have all the Famous Fives, Secret Sevens, the Dimsey series, and the Sadlers Wells ballet books as well as the May Gibbs books (several first editions signed by the author).

Once I hit my teens I haunted the library so a lot of the books I read then are no longer in my personal collection.

Between my collection, my childrens' collection and my grandchildren we have almost every Little Golden Book ever written...all put aside for my great grandchildren.

[jessicadazzler97]

That's beautiful, thanks for sharing 🙂

I do value books, I guess I just value them differently to others... I only keep non-fiction that I regularly refer back to, and fiction that I absolutely adore. Books that I've read but have no intention of re-reading anytime soon, or books that don't hold great sentimental value, have to go!

Just the other day I was given a copy of a very old edition of Lorna Doone. It's my favourite love story of all time, so I jumped at the chance to have it. The early 2000's film is great but I've never read such an old edition of the book, so I'm really looking forward to reading that 🙂 Plus, it's written largely in West Country dialect, which I love, so that makes reading it even more interesting for me. But then there are people who might find my love of the story, locality of the story, and dialect absolute rubbish... and that's ok, because we all value different things, and we all have our own idea of what, in our minds, makes a great read 🙂

[opmania]

I had a book non fiction called

" Famous people's favorite books"

The librarian from the Brighton

Library in Adelaide sent out about

1000 letters to famous people asking

What was their favourite book. 

About 800 replied and it was 

Interesting  to read what they

Considered to be a  good book

The likes of Steven Spielberg,

Stephen King, the Queen.

She gracefully declined to show

Preference , but did reply.

One book that came up quite a few

Times was 

"Love in the time of Cholera"

Although I havent read it its 

Next on my list.