good books

[scarletts_awry]

I haven't seen Prince Caspian, though I probably will at some point. The talk about it has gotten me thinking though. Well, the talk about it and being back at home where a few of my old books still reside has got me thinking

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[stellaluna_]

As I mentioned to you on Twitter, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is my favorite of the Narnia books, too. In terms of childhood influences, though, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first one I read, and it's the images from that book that stick with me the strongest: the lamppost in the snowy wood, the phrase "Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve," the passage right before Aslan's sacrifice at the Stone Table where Lewis names off all the dark creatures who are with the Witch, then says he can't keep talking about them, because then the grown-ups would take the book away from you-the-reader, the dead blue-bottle on the windowsill.

Other books that were meaningful for me include Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family, Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes, Charlotte's Web, Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family, Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer, a book I got at a library sale called In a Blue Velvet Dress, and, oh, tons of others. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home. Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia.

[neviditelny]

This could possibly take awhile