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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Hobbit
Lots of ties for third. But some of the books that i loved best as a child haven’t held up to adulthood. I recently (two nights ago) reread “Half Magic”, and while i did pick up and begin “Knights’ Castle”, the book has some issues that bother me as an adult. And i tried to reread the “Chronicles of Prydain” , which i absolutely adored, but couldn’t get into it. I’ll try again when i get through Eager.
Maybe I’ll give third place to “Where The Wild Things Are”. But i love that more as an adult than i did as a child, so maybe that’s not a good choice.
Damn, I mean, damn. I have no words.
I’m using this thread for Christmas shopping ideas, and was reminded of a couple more good ones: The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, by Lloyd Alexander; and My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George.
Uh…
It just beat out Boccaccio’s Decameron.
While I read both as a child, I wouldn’t consider either a children’s book.
One is a Feast for Mouse
What’s That Awful Smell?
And one I can’t recall the name of. It had a monster child trying to go to sleep, terrified of the little girl under the bed. It helped my daughter so much, I wish I could remember the name. A few minutes of googling got me nowhere. :pout:
1 - The Wind in The Willows
2- The Gruffalo
3 - Where The Wild Things Are
I loved this one when my 5th grade teacher read it to us, and still loved it when I read it myself. It was a thrill to have my library host the author at a DC Environmental Film Festival event decades later. However, when I read it to my daughter the long descriptions were too much for me. I could tune out when it was being read to me, skim it when I was reading silently, but when reading aloud they drove me a little crazy. That didn’t really tarnish the earlier memories, though.
Yeah, I think it may be a little much for the grandson I bought it for, but screw it. He’ll have the opportunity.
How old is he? I’ve known plenty of kids, especially boys, who have loved it. All have been city kids.
11, but not much of a reader. I always give books to kids (as well as toys). I’ll never know if they actually read the books, but I can dream!
There was a book I loved when I was a kid, that I can’t find in my brain the name of. Two boys lived next door to a scientist, who may or may not have been an alien, that built a rocket. Lots of puns in the text. Particularly by the scientist guy. It was probably written late 60s-early 70s…I read it around '78? I want to say the scientist was Mr Tumnus, but that was the dude from Narnia. I think there was a sequel.
Anybody got an idea?
Possibly The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron.
The first book I ever got out of the library. ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon.’
When I was 12, ‘Little Women’. It was tough sledding, some words and situations I didn’t quite understand, there was no internet to research anything. I could get the gist, though.
‘The House at Pooh Corner.’ Fell in love with Pooh, in fact, loved all of the books.
I was wondering if that was it, too. But i don’t remember puns.
Ooh, that’s my third, edging out “where the wild things are”.
Yup, that’s it! Thank you.
Four sequels, two short stories, and the original book came out in 1954.