Erastes' Children's Books Meme

[anteros_lmc]

Erastes posted her list of 15 books children should read and asked for our recommendations. These are books I read as a kid rather than children's books per se. Sadly I didn't come across Ursula Le Guin's Earth Sea series until a I met my current partner. If I had found them as a child I would have devoured them.

1. The Owl Service by Alan Garner.

Comments

[erastes]

looks like i'll have to get hold of the Dark is Rising books!

[anteros_lmc]

Yes do! I can highly recommend them. The first one starts out like The Secret Seven but stick with it, the series quickly turns into something much more interesting and by the end it's positively surreal in places.

I confess Garner is still one of my favourite authors though :)

[esmerelda_t]

The Dark is Rising sounds like my kind of book. :P

I have read LOTR (thought it was boring) and Little House (don't remember much except the fact I did read it). As a child though I was a big fan of Roald Dahl and the Chronicles of Narnia. I also adored a series of books called The Babysitters Club.

[eglantine_br]

Oh, The Dark is Rising is wonderful. And they do hold up to adult reading too. I read them again myself a few years ago. The hair on my neck stood up...

[anteros_lmc]

They're amazing books aren't they? I carried on reading Garner and Tolkien continually but I hadn't read Cooper since I was about 13. I picked the series up again about three years ago and was amazed how good they are, The Grey King in particular.

I think our bookshelves must have looked very similar when we were growing up :)

[eglantine_br]

That one was my favorite. I wanted to go to Bran's house to visit.

[sarlania]

I think I've read about four items on this list?

I would include almost all of Enid Blyton's books in that list - Magic Faraway Tree & sequels, especially. She was such an inspiration and wonder to me as a child.

And Tintin. I still love it and I'm really looking forward to the movie that's coming out at the end of this year.

[anteros_lmc]

I know I read other Enid Blyton books as a kid but The Famous Five books were the ones that really captivated me.

Tintin completely passed me by, in fact I don't think I even saw a Tintin book until I was an adult!

[brewsternorth]

Heh, I've read of those 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 13, and approve.

[anteros_lmc]

It's amazing how many of these books are common to folk on my flist regardless of where they grew up!

[stevie_carroll]

More books that bring back memories! And a few I really ought to read!

[anteros_lmc]

I must admit I still really enjoy reading children's books. Many of them knock spots off so called adult literature.

[stevie_carroll]

Oh, same here. I keep ordering new ones from the library, and don't care what people think of me.