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YA/Children's books
http://listverse.com/2011/07/26/15-kids-books-you-need-to-read/
Of the list, I have read:
Tom Sawyer. This was my favorite from about 1973 onward. I had a massive crush on Becky Thatcher (esp as played by Jodie Foster)
Charlotte's Web
Encyclopedia Brown. Oh how I loved Encyclopedia. He was the brains behind Brown Detective agency and I learned a lot from him.
Hardy boys. I read a few of these, but was much more a Nancy Drew girl
Heinlein Juveniles. I read a number of these, including HAVE SPACESUIT WILL TRAVEL
Homer Price! I was trying to remember that name the other day. It was such fun
And of course, Narnia. Am I the only one who thought Susan got EXACTLY what she deserved for letting all her brains fall out of her head?
I read widely as a child. Books that influenced me.
Dr. Doolittle. I read several of these, including Dr. Doolittle and the secret lake. They do not hold up
Tomorrow's Children, edited by Isaac Asimov. This was my introduction to Fritz Leiber, Jerome Bixby and Phillip K Dick. 19 SF stories about children. Star bright, A Pail of Air and It's a Good Life were the three that stuck.
The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. A rollicking pirate adventure.
Nancy Drew. Oh how I loved Nancy. she was smart, she was cool. She had her own car and solved mysteries. And she was redhead.
A Wrinkle in Time series, by L'Engle. I was so Meg. Different than the rest of my family, a gawky awkward cuckoo in place of a petite, smart beauty.
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books.
The Pippi Longstocking series. I loved Pippi in the South Seas.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books. I read and reread these to tatters. Although not YA, they shaped my interaction with SF for a long time. I remember not having read them for a decade or more, yet still immediately flashing on the time measurements when I read the headline "Scientists living on Martian time."
The Star Wars books. The novelization, Splinter of the Mind's eye and Daily's Han Solo novels. As a preteen these were my obsession.
Of the list, I have read:
Tom Sawyer. This was my favorite from about 1973 onward. I had a massive crush on Becky Thatcher (esp as played by Jodie Foster)
Charlotte's Web
Encyclopedia Brown. Oh how I loved Encyclopedia. He was the brains behind Brown Detective agency and I learned a lot from him.
Hardy boys. I read a few of these, but was much more a Nancy Drew girl
Heinlein Juveniles. I read a number of these, including HAVE SPACESUIT WILL TRAVEL
Homer Price! I was trying to remember that name the other day. It was such fun
And of course, Narnia. Am I the only one who thought Susan got EXACTLY what she deserved for letting all her brains fall out of her head?
I read widely as a child. Books that influenced me.
Dr. Doolittle. I read several of these, including Dr. Doolittle and the secret lake. They do not hold up
Tomorrow's Children, edited by Isaac Asimov. This was my introduction to Fritz Leiber, Jerome Bixby and Phillip K Dick. 19 SF stories about children. Star bright, A Pail of Air and It's a Good Life were the three that stuck.
The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. A rollicking pirate adventure.
Nancy Drew. Oh how I loved Nancy. she was smart, she was cool. She had her own car and solved mysteries. And she was redhead.
A Wrinkle in Time series, by L'Engle. I was so Meg. Different than the rest of my family, a gawky awkward cuckoo in place of a petite, smart beauty.
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books.
The Pippi Longstocking series. I loved Pippi in the South Seas.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books. I read and reread these to tatters. Although not YA, they shaped my interaction with SF for a long time. I remember not having read them for a decade or more, yet still immediately flashing on the time measurements when I read the headline "Scientists living on Martian time."
The Star Wars books. The novelization, Splinter of the Mind's eye and Daily's Han Solo novels. As a preteen these were my obsession.
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I didn't read it as Susan losing her brains, I saw it as Susan losing her imagination/belief and I was sad for her (but also thought to myself "I won't let that happen to me!") =(