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Have been re reading some old favourites and childhood favourites while ILB has been off line!
I just read ' The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' by Roald Dahl. and it is a wonderful story.

― kath (kath), Sunday, 18 July 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dahl's The BFG, probably. And though I only read it once I was no longer a kid, I think George Saunders' and Lane Smith's Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is great.

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Sunday, 18 July 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Little House in the Big Woods," it was my first "big kid" book I read :) I re-read it around the holidays every other year or so.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I also always loved the American writer Elizabeth Enrights series of books about the family of 5 children, I think the 1st book was called ' The Four Storey Mistake'.
As an only child living on an isolated farm in the middle of Africa the characters became my friends. Probably about when I started my life long reading obsession!

― kath (kath), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Harriet the Spy" remains a favorite, as does "The Monster At The End Of This Book".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"The thanksgiving Visitor" by Truman Capote.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 July 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

O Casuistry~I have my copy of TMATEOTB to this day :) Bit tattered and worn, repaired once by a book binder friend (yes, it's one of those hard cardboard cover versions), but I love it so... Come on, it's Grover!

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Sunday, 18 July 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so happy to see other people love The Monster at the End of this Book. I didn't other people besides me and my brother even knew about it!

I'm also a big fan of Charlotte's Web.

― SJ Lefty, Sunday, 18 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's actually really popular. They made a sequel a while back which featured Elmo and which was really painfully bad.

I have two copies of the original (and it's on my list of 50 books for Cozen to read, I think).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 18 July 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Comet in Moominland. I can picture my young self lying on my childhood bed (with West Ham duvet, natch) reading the Moomin stories. Comet was my favourite.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 19 July 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Beauty-Robin McKinley. I loved all fairy tales as a child and this book added depth and wisdom. It also made the nerdy, strange looking girl that I was feel like I had a chance. And Anastasia Krupnik ruled the schoolyard, too.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 19 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" is a favorite of mine too.

― mck (mck), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Any and all Roald Dahl, any and all Daniel Pinkwater.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Phantom Tollbooth and the Velveteen Rabbit. I still bawl my head off over that rabbit.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

St. Exupery's "The Little Prince."

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

probably this one
most surreal thing in the world
violet was hawttt

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

I just finished reading the last chapter of "the four storey mistake" with my 7 y/o - the descriptive writing style is gorgeous. I spent a lot of time pausing to ask q 's like "do you know what 'alacrity ' means? What a pleasure.

― chemical aioli (Hunt3r), Saturday, 13 December 2014 05:35 (ten years ago)

I'm so happy to see other people love The Monster at the End of this Book. I didn't other people besides me and my brother even knew about it!

so otm. still parsing this book's metaphorical implications 20 years on.

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 13 December 2014 13:56 (ten years ago)

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