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I'm feeling nostalgic and so I thought this sort of thread might be kinda fun.
What are your favourite children's books and why? Which books will your (hypothetical or real) children have to read whether they like it or not? Which books do you still read now?
I'll start.
Harry Potter.
More than any of my other favourites, I feel like I grew up with Harry. First book came out when I 6 the last when I was 16. It's not just because of what the books are about, it's the whole Harry Potter thing. Just the waiting and the excitement of a new release and actually having a common book with a lot of people my own age. Not to mention that I would use the books to escape from my own childhood.
I still read them. I'm pretty much always reading them and I don't really know why. I've read the entire series 5 times this year alone. They're my go-to books when I'm feeling sad or if I can't sleep.
The Famous Five.
This series is probably to blame for my book obsession. They're the first books I can remember reading and like HP it's not just the plots but the part they played in my childhood. I had about 4 of them as hand-me-downs from my siblings and then everytime we went on holiday to our usual destination the highlight of the holiday for me would be going to the bookshop there and choosing a new Famous Five book and sometimes I got to go there twice a holiday! (That went on up until my 7th birthday when my mother got me the 5 I didn't have.)
The Hobbit.
Most of you will probably know about my Tolkien obsession so I'll spare the details of why I love this book.
The other children's books that I love and still read now: The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson, The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver and the Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn.
What are your favourite children's books and why? Which books will your (hypothetical or real) children have to read whether they like it or not? Which books do you still read now?
I'll start.
Harry Potter.
More than any of my other favourites, I feel like I grew up with Harry. First book came out when I 6 the last when I was 16. It's not just because of what the books are about, it's the whole Harry Potter thing. Just the waiting and the excitement of a new release and actually having a common book with a lot of people my own age. Not to mention that I would use the books to escape from my own childhood.
I still read them. I'm pretty much always reading them and I don't really know why. I've read the entire series 5 times this year alone. They're my go-to books when I'm feeling sad or if I can't sleep.
The Famous Five.
This series is probably to blame for my book obsession. They're the first books I can remember reading and like HP it's not just the plots but the part they played in my childhood. I had about 4 of them as hand-me-downs from my siblings and then everytime we went on holiday to our usual destination the highlight of the holiday for me would be going to the bookshop there and choosing a new Famous Five book and sometimes I got to go there twice a holiday! (That went on up until my 7th birthday when my mother got me the 5 I didn't have.)
The Hobbit.
Most of you will probably know about my Tolkien obsession so I'll spare the details of why I love this book.
The other children's books that I love and still read now: The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson, The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver and the Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn.