Favourite childhood books which you keep going back to as an adult? Rereading watership down for the nth time
Favourite childhood books which you keep going back to as an adult?
Rereading watership down for the nth time
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The Giving Tree.
What’s this?
https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein-ebook/dp/B00DB2QZPI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518408414&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Giving+Tree
Thank you
On that note, just read my kids five bedtime poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends.
I read….I promise I will find you.
Bridge to Terebithia
Other side of the mountian or is it far side??♀️
Teen book. Mr and Mrs Bojo Jones
I was so mad with bridge to terebithia
My Side of the Mountain
Yes! My side
bridge to terabithia!
I love watership down. I got a book that I think might be the sequel – I didn’t even know there was one.
That would be amazing
Look!!
The Hobbit.
the witches, wrinkle in time, giving tree.
The Hobbit, Redwall.
Tales from Watership Down.
That’s it!!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Forever.
Francie Nolan forever, that is!
Definitely Harry Potter!!
It has been to long since I last read Potter.
I probably reread it at least every other year! Recently it’s been actually yearly between audiobooks and reading them from the books! They bring me joy(:
What’s the giving tree?
All of the Redwall books
Island of the Blue Dolphins, and The Giver.
The Good Earth
I fell so in love with first daughter or ‘Poor Fool’ I will always hold a special place for her in my Literary Heart
A Wrinkle in Time
Chronicles of Narnia.
My side of the mountain and boxcar children
Little women such a great book
I love this one
Little women. There was also a book that I cannot find. It was a story about kids being held someplace with stairs, and food would just appear. That’s all I can remember these 35 or more years later. I know it was a good book, but can’t remember the title.
The Little Princess, maybe?
I will check it out! Thanks!
Is it House of Stairs by William Sleator?
That is it!!! I just looked it up on Google by that name and that’s it!!! Thank you so much!!
Yay! ??
Johnathan loving seagull
A Wrinkle in Time
When I was very young I liked Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew, Ramona, (Beverly Cleary books) encyclopedia brown, and into my teen years, Agatha Christie, ALL V.C. Andrews books.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Hatchet, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Fahrenheit 451
Agatha Christie, Harry potter,Rebecca,Oliver Twist.
The Little Prince. By Antoine De Saints Exupéry
Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland
Little Women and Heidi
Anne of Green Gables series too
The Magic Faraway Tree x
All the Anne of Green Gables books – I reread them all about once a year!
Alice in Wonderland
All the Nancy drew books
Jostein Gardner -Sophie’s world
Little women
Love Watership Down too. It was inspiration for my book, Tribe. I love the underlying message concept.
One more river
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books
Charlotte’s Web
The Narnia books
The Dark is Rising (set) – Susan Cooper
Are you there God? it’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
The secret garden.
Malory towers and chronicles of narnia although I haven’t reread them
Valley of adventure by Enid blyton
The Narnia chronicles and the children of green know.
I vaguely remember Green Know being on tv as well. I love the book x
The book was better of course.
naturaly – but it was the tv series that made me pick it up as an adult
Black beauty ..
Harry Potter. The faraway tree. My 3 year old asked me to read Matilda by Roald Dahl last night ❤️
Diary of Anne Frank
The children if green know
Oooh the children of green knowe was magical! Especially as me and my family were walking once whilst on holiday and saw a garden full of shaped shrubs. As we called the adults over to look, a lady invited us in to look around… It was the author Lucy M Boston! A wonderful experience ?
If i see a lone tree i still call i the lightening green and think Green Knowe cant catch me… lol
Thats amazing that you met her!
We had no idea at all! She was just a lovely, kind lady who took me, my sister,my mum, dad and two sets of grandparents around her garden. No hurry. If we saw something she would take us to see it and talk a bit. Never once said about the book. As we were leaving, she gave us the book and she had signed it. Still no idea! It wasn’t until I read it and recognised the little deer looking over the water in the book from her tour did I realise she was the woman who wrote the book and her garden was the setting! She said how she loved having children in to take a look. I can’t have even been 9 years old.
The Wishing Chair and Folks of the Faraway Tree
The wishing chair ,makes me so nostalgic
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Harry Potter ???
Yes!!!! ?
Anne of Green Gables
The Velveteen Rabbit
Same! That book is one of my favourites. I’ve also reread The Phantom Tollbooth a billion times
Little Women
A book called Kim. It’s not the famous Kim, but another one about a Vietnamese orphan, by Frank Chinnock Also Quest of the sea eagle by Sheila Brathwaite. Funnily enough, that is also about an orphan 🙂 Read them many times as a young teenager and I’m very lucky to have found them again (Cost the earth, but who cares?) They are treasured keepsakes 🙂
My Friend Flicka.
The Famous Five and Secret Seven
Great thread 🙂
Any Enid Blyton books ? ??x
Rupert Annuals 🙂
Matilda
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Yes! I didn’t read this for the first time until about 2 years ago?? But I loved it!!! So good!(:
So many. I remember in 5th grade reading a short story called “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”. That did it. It was part of my English book with other stories.
The Faraway Tree, The Fellowship of the Ring which I read first at age 11, Wuthering Heights.
Little Women for me.
A wrinkle in time
The Little Prince
Anne of Green Gables!