this week only, the friday five
1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
I looooooooved childrens books when I was young, so there wer ALOT. I guess some of my fav.s were the Laura Ingles Wilder books, The Chronicles of Narnia, Number the Stars, the Giver, Caddie Woodlawn, The Little Princess, the Secret Garden, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, also, there were these books about Kirsten, who was a character created by American Girl. The books were really good. When I was 10. THere were also a couple from when I was VERY YOUNG, Cocoa Bear in the Big Woods and Close Your Eyes.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
The LIW books were so cool to me because I was about the same age as Laura durring most of the stories when I read them, and I have always been facinated by pre-industrial technology and society for reasons I can't fully articulate. Also, I love all those stories where something scary happens and the plucky young herione (or hero) saves the day by being ingenious or brave or sweet of character, which would explain all the others. Narnia was very speicial to me because it was given to me when I was ill for six weeks and out of school when I was 11. In alot of ways, I think it really contributed to what has become my faith. Even now, I'll stumble on a concept in scripture and think, "oh, like in the silver chair when... ," which is, I think, the way CS intended it. Perhaps I'm wrong. THe last two were read to me much more, and so the part that I'm really attached to is the pictures.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult? All but the LIW. I still like all of them. Re-reading the ones with the pictures was weird, I have dreams that look like those pictures to this day, they affected me so much.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In the case of Chronicles of Narnia and Number the stars, BETTER.
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics (like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, etc.)? Hm.. It was great for LOTR, but I don't think of that as a Children's Classic. It's on the 12th grade level, after all. It has elevated language and built in anthropology and appendacies and all that. I think it's good, but only if it is a wonderful book that despirately needs to be done credit on film, and only if there is a creative team that is passionate about the origional literature. I don't like that it is turning into a trend.
I looooooooved childrens books when I was young, so there wer ALOT. I guess some of my fav.s were the Laura Ingles Wilder books, The Chronicles of Narnia, Number the Stars, the Giver, Caddie Woodlawn, The Little Princess, the Secret Garden, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, also, there were these books about Kirsten, who was a character created by American Girl. The books were really good. When I was 10. THere were also a couple from when I was VERY YOUNG, Cocoa Bear in the Big Woods and Close Your Eyes.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
The LIW books were so cool to me because I was about the same age as Laura durring most of the stories when I read them, and I have always been facinated by pre-industrial technology and society for reasons I can't fully articulate. Also, I love all those stories where something scary happens and the plucky young herione (or hero) saves the day by being ingenious or brave or sweet of character, which would explain all the others. Narnia was very speicial to me because it was given to me when I was ill for six weeks and out of school when I was 11. In alot of ways, I think it really contributed to what has become my faith. Even now, I'll stumble on a concept in scripture and think, "oh, like in the silver chair when... ," which is, I think, the way CS intended it. Perhaps I'm wrong. THe last two were read to me much more, and so the part that I'm really attached to is the pictures.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult? All but the LIW. I still like all of them. Re-reading the ones with the pictures was weird, I have dreams that look like those pictures to this day, they affected me so much.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In the case of Chronicles of Narnia and Number the stars, BETTER.
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics (like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, etc.)? Hm.. It was great for LOTR, but I don't think of that as a Children's Classic. It's on the 12th grade level, after all. It has elevated language and built in anthropology and appendacies and all that. I think it's good, but only if it is a wonderful book that despirately needs to be done credit on film, and only if there is a creative team that is passionate about the origional literature. I don't like that it is turning into a trend.