What were your favourite children books as children?
I'm talking about the ones that you re-read, and could still read now. Books that absorbed you and made you want to read them more and more.
For me it is probably these:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Norby: The Mixed Up Robot by Issac Asimov
an honourable mention goes to The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, as well as the rest of Dahl's output. Also a book which I loved when I read and had a profound impact on me... but that I can't remember the author to, or even if I know the correct title. I believe it was called Tomorrows World, and was a sci-fi novel with two children at the center. The lead character, a girl, whose father had created a machine (called C3, short for some three word name) that controlled the weather, and the very lives of the people in their city. Eventually it was out of control and had to be stopped, but it destroyed itself after it accidentally blinded her while tring to kill her friend. It was such a well done story. Any recognise it? Please tell me...
Also I found, as I worked over this entry in my head, that it wasn't just single stories that affected me, but certain areas of fiction. Specifically: short stories - esspecially those of Stephen King and Issac Asimov, but mostly any sci-fi short from the 50's. It is really a lost art...
What about you?
[edit = I FOUND IT!! It only took going through all the damn books in Amazon's Childrens section with Tomorrow in the title to find it! *dances* It's called The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes... yaaaay
I'm talking about the ones that you re-read, and could still read now. Books that absorbed you and made you want to read them more and more.
For me it is probably these:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Norby: The Mixed Up Robot by Issac Asimov
an honourable mention goes to The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, as well as the rest of Dahl's output. Also a book which I loved when I read and had a profound impact on me... but that I can't remember the author to, or even if I know the correct title. I believe it was called Tomorrows World, and was a sci-fi novel with two children at the center. The lead character, a girl, whose father had created a machine (called C3, short for some three word name) that controlled the weather, and the very lives of the people in their city. Eventually it was out of control and had to be stopped, but it destroyed itself after it accidentally blinded her while tring to kill her friend. It was such a well done story. Any recognise it? Please tell me...
Also I found, as I worked over this entry in my head, that it wasn't just single stories that affected me, but certain areas of fiction. Specifically: short stories - esspecially those of Stephen King and Issac Asimov, but mostly any sci-fi short from the 50's. It is really a lost art...
What about you?
[edit = I FOUND IT!! It only took going through all the damn books in Amazon's Childrens section with Tomorrow in the title to find it! *dances* It's called The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes... yaaaay
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I used to have a plushie of the main monster in that...
But it involved the dad making a time machine. Rawr. I'll remember while I'm at work, I'm sure.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Beyond the Paw Paw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia by Palmer Brown
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
The Black Cauldron series by Lloyd Alexander
Anything by Chris Van Allsburg
Discovery of Dragons by Graeme Base
and then a lot of other illustrated books that would take too long to list on here.
The famous Five-series from Enid Blyton (I cried and cried in the library when they didn't have fresh ones in our library.)
Pluk van de Petteflet by Annie M.G. Schmidt (I Googled for an English translation, and apparantly, there hasn't been made one! o_O What a shame.)
Anything by Thea Beckmann (luckily, her works háve been translated)
When I had read most of our little library in the village I grew up in, I got só bored, that I switched to Stephen King. :)
Also,
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
A book about a girl who dressed as a boy to go to university in the middle ages that I can't remember the name or author of
Star Trek novels (they were my fathers! But, also, I'm just a big dork.)
As far as really little kids books, I used to read what were called Golden Books (they had a strip of foil down the spine) and I read probably 200 or so of them. Plus Seuss and such.
Recently kids books have become more popular, and I think that is in large part due to authors being like Dahl: unafraid of what they put on the page, writing for the kids, not worrying about the parents thoughts.
The Twits was good, but I always prefered The Witches, and of course the two Charlie books.