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[nwhepcat]

frogfarm asked me what Faith comms are most active on LJ, and I realized I really don't know. I'm a little half-assed on the comm participation (if that), so I pass the question on to youSigh. No ficlet today. I'm still working on that Liberia fic, and it's coming along, but kinda slowly. I had some momentum this morning, and didn't want to interrupt it to

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[freixenet]

One of my favorite children's books was a lovely story about a girl named Tatsinda: "Once upon a time, far, far away at the top of the world, where it is always cold, there was a mountain that no one knew about except the people who lived on it." Enright is the author's name, I think. I'm glad I had a mother who gave me more than the standards (although my father, being British, had a much different idea of what constituted appropriate reading matter for children! He had some horrible book called *Strewelpeter* which was a collection of horrific, Grimm-like stories.)

[willowgreen]

Oh, Elizabeth Enright! She wrote a lot of wonderful children's books. My favorites are the Melendy series (starting with "The Saturdays"), but the Gone-Away Lake books are also very good. The Melendy books are now available on audio CD from the Chinaberry children's book catalog.

Willowgreen, who sometimes can't keep exciting information to herself, even if it's entirely possible that no one reading it is particularly interested.

[freixenet]

I never read any of her others, although I know she had some--the GoneAway Lake ones sound familiar. Thanks for the reminder!

Very boring

[keith5by5]

But I'm going to have to go with the traditional, CS. Lewis' Narnina books. Loved 'em, they were utter magic.

[nnmpsn]

I was a kid who was (almost literally) never without a book in my hand, so picking one favorite would be impossible. For some reason this morning a title that comes to mind is Trubloff, The Mouse who wanted to play the Balalaika. First of all, it had mice! A big plus for me at the time. And great pictures, and the story was set in Russia (which was a thing that came up more later on), and, well, how can you resist the story of the plucky mouse who overcomes all sorts of wintery adversity to set off with the gypsies and learn to play the balalaika?

It was one half of a volume in a series called the Dandelion Library. Two books in one, printed upside down from each other. I've just pulled this off my shelf to see its mate was Petunia, I Love You, a story about a racoon and a goose. Flipping through I find it very interesting indeed (given my love of the later seasons of BtVS) that at first Racoon loves Petunia because she looks so fat and juicy and delicious but after he lures her away from the farm for a series of failed

[brown_betty]

Oooh! I always like talking about books, so

[herself_nyc]

I was partial to Richard Scarry, Bread & Jam for Frances and anything by Dr Seuss. Among millions of others.