All time favourite books from being a kid
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seconded.
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A children's bookseller writes: keep 'em coming....
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In Spanish, this is called El Superzorro ("The Superfox") which strikes me as a much inferior title.xes said:
Dahl is a very big deal indeed among kids here.
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I loved all the Roald Dahl books - the Witches was my favourite. My daughter loved them too, but at 14 she's now graduated onto more adult books - Lovely Bones is going down well at the moment.
My son reads instruction manuals and fishing magazines
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My son reads instruction manuals and fishing magazines
.i thought 'curious george' was too good to be real.
my older cousin gave me a huge pile of 'victor book for boys' annuals which i thought were fantastic too.
i read 'james and the robbers' a few times and 'call of the wild'.
dr seuss of course
i could go on and on but ive got stuff to do
my older cousin gave me a huge pile of 'victor book for boys' annuals which i thought were fantastic too.
i read 'james and the robbers' a few times and 'call of the wild'.
dr seuss of course
i could go on and on but ive got stuff to do
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Chopping up Armadillos
Seconded, or fourthed as the case may be.RaverDrew said:"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" can't be beaten imo
They should make the film.
Just bought a first edition, or more likely first edition x reprint, from 1977 for a tenner from Ebay of it as it happens, as a present for someone.
Most Dahl's books have a soft spot for me (is that the other way around?), plus The Hobbit, and Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is a book that's still on my shelf from 20 odd years ago.
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...also this children's book from 1939 by the Scottish anti-authoritarian educationalist A.S. Neill who ran the controversial Summerhill School:
Even though it was written in English it's better known in Europe and became especially popular in Germany during the 70's. It's an anarchic post-apocalyptic tale Neill told to a group of his students. In between every chapter there are the reactions of the kids to the events in the story. Eventually Neill, fed up with their criticism, subjects his protagonists (who are the students the story is being told to) to various indignities and eventually kills them off one by one. It's a very funny but also an unusually dark and violent children's book, in keeping with Neill's permissive attitudes towards education. What keeps it from becoming too upsetting is that the students of course are alive and well in between the fiction chapters and eventually rebel against Neill in real life.
Difficult to get hold of in print (in English at least) it can be downloaded here:
http://members.tripod.com/thelastmanalive/home.html
Even though it was written in English it's better known in Europe and became especially popular in Germany during the 70's. It's an anarchic post-apocalyptic tale Neill told to a group of his students. In between every chapter there are the reactions of the kids to the events in the story. Eventually Neill, fed up with their criticism, subjects his protagonists (who are the students the story is being told to) to various indignities and eventually kills them off one by one. It's a very funny but also an unusually dark and violent children's book, in keeping with Neill's permissive attitudes towards education. What keeps it from becoming too upsetting is that the students of course are alive and well in between the fiction chapters and eventually rebel against Neill in real life.
Difficult to get hold of in print (in English at least) it can be downloaded here:
http://members.tripod.com/thelastmanalive/home.html
All the Mary O'Hara books about wild horses running free in Wyoming - My Friend Flicka, Green Grass of Wyoming etc. Absolutely loved them. I wanted to be the horses in that landscape. As an aside, I'm just reading Close Range by Annie Proulx and those descriptions of the landscape are making me feel the same things all over again 
Enid Blyton - The Twins at boarding school series. I desperately wanted to go and have midnight suppers, and be accepted into the social group
EB also did another book that I used to read all the time but for the life of me I can't remember the title. It was based on 2 families, one lived on a farm and were all jolly, and the others were rich and then their house burned down so the kids had to live on the farm. Loads of struggle but in the end it all turned out nice The youngest kids were called Susan and Roderick - does anyone know what it is?
Enid Blyton - The Twins at boarding school series. I desperately wanted to go and have midnight suppers, and be accepted into the social group
EB also did another book that I used to read all the time but for the life of me I can't remember the title. It was based on 2 families, one lived on a farm and were all jolly, and the others were rich and then their house burned down so the kids had to live on the farm. Loads of struggle but in the end it all turned out nice
The youngest kids were called Susan and Roderick - does anyone know what it is?
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