I can remember reading every single one of those books. Seriously. Where the Red Fern Grows was a favorite of mine for a long time and The Giver is still a pleasure to read. Aw, now you're making me all nostalgic for children's books.
Also, I'm wicked jealous of your snow. We still haven't gotten any accumulation to speak of.
Where the Red Fern Grows was a favorite of mine for a long time and The Giver is still a pleasure to read. Ditto for me! Actually, those are two of my favorites on that list more so than some of the others.
I think it's great that a lot of these books are still popular to a degree. They are definitely childrens classics.
Ooo I loved The Giver. I was *MADE* to read it in English class and I ended up loving that book. I was *MADE* to read To Kill a Mockingbird and loved that one too. Even the movie was pretty good.
I love the To Kill a Mockingbird movie. Gregory Peck did a phenomenal job in it. I'm so glad that you enjoyed the books though cause too often, when we're made to read books, kids hate them.
I'm so sick of snow. Of course that could be because we have 4 feet of it. You should see the snowbanks! It's insane.
I was surprised how many of the books on your list I had read! My favorites growing up that aren't on the list are A Wrinkle in Time, Walk Two Moons and Charlotte's Web :D.
I've never heard of Walk Two Moons so I'm going to have to check that out from the library.
As for A Wrinkle in Time and Charlotte's Web... I hate those books, lol. Or not hate precisely, they are just stories I could never for the life of me get in. However, they are immensely popular so something must be wrong with me.
Oh my gosh. Never read Walk Two Moons?? All of Sharon Creech's novels are great but I'd recommend you read:
01. Walk Two Moons 02. Absolutely Normal Chaos 03. Bloomability
to start. There are a bunch of others and they are all just barely connected in that awesome circular universe kind of way.
I'm not sure I love Charlotte's Web so much as I love the recording we have of it with E.B. White reading. It rocks. Also, what about...
Stuart Little Ballet Shoes Betsy & Tacey (come on now, aren't you a MN girl?) Daddy Long-Legs Island of the Blue Dolphins The Golden Compass Swallows and Amazons Half Magic
lalala. Can you tell my grandma and great grandma were both children's librarians? Love me some old-fashioned kid-lit.
Stuart Little and The Trumpeter Swan... I like those E.B. White books a lot more than Charlotte's, but now you've got me interested in the audio reading. I'll have to see if I can find that.
That's so cool that you had so many children's librarians in your family! I'm considering becoming a childrens/teen librarian because well, I really love the literature from those periods.
Hah. It's weird to see that poll today since I just bought my books for the semester a few hours ago. I'm taking a children's literature education class this semester, so I had to buy a bunch of kids books that we're going to be covering. The only one that matches up with your list is Bridge to Terabithia, which I've never read. We also had to get Charlotte's Web, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and Number the Stars. I think that Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the only book of those that I've read, but of course, I'm very familiar with the story of Charlotte's Web because I watched the movie non-stop when I was little.
Should I watch American Idol? I've never actually watched the show before, but everyone says it's really fun to watch in the beginning.
Oh, I forgot about the Golden Globes! I need to go check out a nominees list.
'kay, I'm not sure what I actually entered in that poll, but I know that I've read The Face on the Milk Carton and the other book(s?) that followed it, and I saw the TV movie a bunch of times. I also know I read Matilda and Ramona the Pest. I'm pretty sure I started The Giver in middle school (for required reading), but never finished. And I tried to read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time a couple of years ago (though that definitely wasn't my childhood because I was already in college), but I got through half of it and was just totally unimpressed, so I dropped it.
Ummm...Island of the Blue Dolphins and My Side of the Mountain definitely sound familiar, but I have no idea if I've read them.
The Giver and To Kill a Mockingbird are two of my favorite books to this day. If you ever get the time, definitely try reading them again. I think you'll like them.
I love American Idol in the beginning. The auditions are honestly one of the best part of the show. I'd probably keep watching the show if it didn't interfere with Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars, but unfortunately it does and I'm not interested enough in American Idol to keep watching when those shows are on. But, it's definitely a fun show to get into once or twice, it really is. You'll find a favorite out of the twelve chosen and be rooting for them all season.
I'm taking a children's literature education class this semester, so I had to buy a bunch of kids books that we're going to be covering. That's so cool! I was going to take a children and teen literature class but I decided to go with a different one, though I will hopefully be able to take it later on.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and Number the Stars. Very good stories! More forgotten poll items, lol.
Awesome poll. I was as big of a book nerd as a kid as I am now, so this really took me back, like, twenty years. Heh.
Let's see: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Charlotte's Web, the Little House on the Prairie series, Fourth Grade Rats, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, No Baths for Tabitha, Amelia Bedelia series, Sarah Plain and Tall, Pippi Longstocking, The Boxcar Children, etc.
You just really made me want to go unpack all my childhood books, lol. ;)
Scary Stories!! Oh man, those did scare me too (um, because I scare VERY easily.) I still remember the one where the sickness was in the dress and it like killed the person wearing it or something.
Amelia Bedelia!! Love those ones too! Man, I definitely forgot a ton on my poll. I don't know why these weren't in my box.
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiller! The Westing Game! Hitty, Her First Hundred Years! I Capture The Castle! The Wolves of Willoughby Chase!
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiller! Love that book! I can't believe I forgot it on my poll, and The Westing Game!! Ah... I am terrible. Haven't read the others, but I'm so going to read them now. I love young adult literature still. :) Thanks for all the unexpected recommendations!
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Also, I'm wicked jealous of your snow. We still haven't gotten any accumulation to speak of.
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Ditto for me! Actually, those are two of my favorites on that list more so than some of the others.
I think it's great that a lot of these books are still popular to a degree. They are definitely childrens classics.
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I was surprised how many of the books on your list I had read! My favorites growing up that aren't on the list are A Wrinkle in Time, Walk Two Moons and Charlotte's Web :D.
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As for A Wrinkle in Time and Charlotte's Web... I hate those books, lol. Or not hate precisely, they are just stories I could never for the life of me get in. However, they are immensely popular so something must be wrong with me.
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01. Walk Two Moons
02. Absolutely Normal Chaos
03. Bloomability
to start. There are a bunch of others and they are all just barely connected in that awesome circular universe kind of way.
I'm not sure I love Charlotte's Web so much as I love the recording we have of it with E.B. White reading. It rocks. Also, what about...
Stuart Little
Ballet Shoes
Betsy & Tacey (come on now, aren't you a MN girl?)
Daddy Long-Legs
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Golden Compass
Swallows and Amazons
Half Magic
lalala. Can you tell my grandma and great grandma were both children's librarians? Love me some old-fashioned kid-lit.
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That's so cool that you had so many children's librarians in your family! I'm considering becoming a childrens/teen librarian because well, I really love the literature from those periods.
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Should I watch American Idol? I've never actually watched the show before, but everyone says it's really fun to watch in the beginning.
Oh, I forgot about the Golden Globes! I need to go check out a nominees list.
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Ummm...Island of the Blue Dolphins and My Side of the Mountain definitely sound familiar, but I have no idea if I've read them.
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I'm taking a children's literature education class this semester, so I had to buy a bunch of kids books that we're going to be covering.
That's so cool! I was going to take a children and teen literature class but I decided to go with a different one, though I will hopefully be able to take it later on.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and Number the Stars.
Very good stories! More forgotten poll items, lol.
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Let's see: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Charlotte's Web, the Little House on the Prairie series, Fourth Grade Rats, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, No Baths for Tabitha, Amelia Bedelia series, Sarah Plain and Tall, Pippi Longstocking, The Boxcar Children, etc.
You just really made me want to go unpack all my childhood books, lol. ;)
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Amelia Bedelia!! Love those ones too! Man, I definitely forgot a ton on my poll. I don't know why these weren't in my box.
Book nerds FOREVER!
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Haha I used to own like 3 Scary Story books. I loved those to death. (No pun intended)
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I will stop now.
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