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April 02, 2005
Kid books!
In honor of International Children's Book Day Michele offers up her fave kid reads and is happy to take suggestions in the comments. I am loving reading the lists because sometimes I remember the stories I've read while having a tough time recalling the titles!
My mainsqueeze as a grade schooler was The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. Like a lot of young girls, I absolutely was nutz over horses and I must have read that book dozens of times. Never did get a horse as much as I pestered my parents. :::sigh:::
I also loved Nancy Drew and then spent my 50 cent a week allowance on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks (which are packed away in the garage somewhere... god, I loved those books).
The pic at the top of this post I just took -- the cupboard just outside my daughters' bedrooms and where they stashed just a small portion of their childhood reads. I don't know if any of you recall the so-called "controversy" over RL Stine's Goosebumps series, but it preceeded the same sort of sniffing and handwringing that accompanies the Harry Potter series.
I've always wanted to sneak up behind some of these blue-nose types and give 'em a turbocharged wedgie....but I don't think they'd notice.
So the pic shows my ::ahem:: concern over my girls' reading habits as kids...that line of Goosebumps you see? That only the first layer. Siobhan has 'em all catalogued somewhere and there are over 200 of the Goosebumps alone. We also have all the Fear Street series, many books by Christopher Pike, the Narnia books, Harry Potter series, Babysitter Club series and I have a collection of hard-cover Bobsey Twin books from the 1930's.
All in all, I think my kids reading habits were well served by Goosebumps as they engendered a love of reading that continues right through today.
Posted by Darleen at April 2, 2005 12:54 PM